Nellens Eien Kinashita

Basic Info

Name: Nellens Eien Kinashita
Player: NPC
Concept: Advisor to The Deliberative
Political Affiliation: Imperial (Contemporary)
Motivation: Bring a new Empress to the throne before her death.

Background

Nellens Eien Kinashita was born into a relatively modest family of two mortals that produced only a single dragon-blooded offspring before their deaths, lucky for Kinashita she was born into House Nellens. While her upbringing didn't provide her with much status outside of her house, her parents were well respected enough within it for her to receive a formal education at The Heptagram. Being a mortal she was unable to master sorcery during her tenure at the academy; however she was still a very good student though unable to surpass all of her exalted peers. Despite her inability to manipulate essence she had a profound interest in the occult and is a well documented thaumaturge.

She began her career in the Thousand Scales where she took a humble position within the Ministry of Paranormal Affairs, where she developed an affinity for demon lore, rumored to have gone so far as to summon a demon herself, a rumor that would not serve her well in the future. After some time at the ministry Kinashita was frustrated by her lack of progress, due to what she described as discrimination against mortals. This of course yielded no results as the Dragon-Bloods who had the power to change anything saw no reason to care about such an issue. Eventually her frustration led her to resign from the ministry which led her to become a political activist, fighting for patrician rights as well as rights for all mortals in Dragon-Blooded society.

She fought for mortal rights for almost 10 years, well into her forties before an opportunity to gain more influence presented itself as she was offered a position within The Lessor Chamber of The Deliberative. She jumped at the opportunity to have true power to change the policies of the empire she loved, but found that her dream was heard no more by the members of the Deliberative than it had been before. Her time spent as a senator in The Lower Chamber was not wasted as she quickly learned that her expectations were not met by her government, she started to generate ideas on how to reform it. Eventually her ideas grew much too large for the floor of The Lower Chamber, but despite her efforts she was not seen as fit for The Greater Chamber. It was after repeated rejection by The Greater Chamber of the Deliberative that she decided that she would be best served teaching the youth of the Realm rather than trying to create change in her comparatively short life span.

She was able to pull a few strings with the connections she had gained after nearly 20 years of being a senator to secure herself a teaching position at The Spiral Academy. However when Kinashita arrived at the academy she was once again greatly disappointed because the position that was promised to her at the school had already been filled by a dragon-blooded counterpart. Despite this the promise of a position was honored and she found herself forced to teach linguistics, something she had been naturally good at while in school but had long since lost interest in. Teaching the underprivileged children who had managed to find a way into the academy high realm and more commonly the spoiled Dragon-Blooded children of the Great Houses the dull tones of low realm. She was unable to express and share her revolutionary views on government during her time at the academy, at least in class. She had a habit of finding ways to meet with a select few students who she would share her ideas with, one such student struck a particular nerve with her. That young student was Cathak Rufus, who continued to meet with Kinashita long after he had mastered low realm to discuss political views, something the headmaster would have discouraged if he found one of his best students was gaining political savvy from a mortal linguistics teacher.

Kinashita was one of the few who could have predicted Rufus' long voyage into the threshold, in fact she had helped him plan what destinations to go to during his final year at the academy. She was the last person he spoke to before he left for the threshold, telling her that when he returned it would be time to set their plans into motion, and that he would call upon her to advise him. Kinashita continued to teach at the academy for the five years of Rufus' trip into the threshold, choosing to retire the year that he returned. She was busy in retirement as Rufus often sought her advice on a variety of topics from his social life to his political one; when Rufus was appointed to The Greater Chamber, something that she had been unable to accomplish, one of his first acts was to establish her as his head adviser.

Kinashita is finally in position in see some of her ideas come to pass, however she fears she may not be able to direct her best student for much longer. Kinashita nears the age of 80, her hair has grayed and she finds herself growing wary and tired too soon in the day, despite how she feels she has maintained some the beauty she had in her youth, something that her enemies have been quick to point out likely is the work of a contract with a demon. Nothing has even been proven to credit that Kinashita has ever made a pact with or even been in contact with a demon and she has denied it strongly, though it hasn't stopped everyone from looking into the possibility.