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	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[Angilly\|Gil Angilly]]''' - Gil holds her commission from the Commission and knows that any breach of conduct must be reported to it; she resolves to frame her dispatch so that both her diplomatic purpose and her friendship with [[Dekamran\|Alkhand Dekamran]] survive - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 10. She envisions a seat on the Commission in her own future, beyond the professorship she expects at the end of her posting - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 21. In Lives of Bitter Rain, her loyalty is described as having shifted from ideology to personal ambition while remaining within the Commission's structure, a tension that persists as she carries out assignments in the field - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 6.		* '''[[Angilly\|Gil Angilly]]''' - Gil holds her commission from the Commission and knows that any breach of conduct must be reported to it; she resolves to frame her dispatch so that both her diplomatic purpose and her friendship with [[Dekamran\|Alkhand Dekamran]] survive - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 10. She envisions a seat on the Commission in her own future, beyond the professorship she expects at the end of her posting - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 21. In Lives of Bitter Rain, her loyalty is described as having shifted from ideology to personal ambition while remaining within the Commission's structure, a tension that persists as she carries out assignments in the field - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 6.

	- '''[[Culvern]]''' - Culvern holds his office as Perfector of Ilmar by the Commission's grant; he was briefed personally by the Commission on his appointment, reports to it, and shapes what he reports back. He invokes the Commission's will to foreclose an inquiry into events in his territory - City of Last Chances, ch 40.		* '''[[Culvern]]''' - Culvern holds his office as Perfector of Ilmar by the Commission's grant; he was briefed personally by the Commission on his appointment, reports to it, and shapes what he reports back. He invokes the Commission's will to foreclose an inquiry into events in his territory - City of Last Chances, ch 40.

	- '''[[Berkely]]''' - Berkely derives his direct authority from the Commission and carries its verdict on Usmai; he is nominally the Alkhand's advisor placed by the Commission, though in practice he seizes control of [[Dekamran]]'s movements and access to the throne. He expects to be appointed Perfector by the Appointments Secretary to the Commission and cites Commission rulings against duelling to deflect Gil's challenge - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 35, ch 39, ch 41.		* '''[[Berkely]]''' - Berkely derives his direct authority from the Commission and carries its verdict on Usmai; he is nominally the Alkhand's advisor placed by the Commission, though in practice he seizes control of [[Dekamran]]'s movements and access to the throne. He expects to be appointed Perfector by the Appointments Secretary to the Commission and cites Commission rulings against duelling to deflect Gil's challenge - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 35, ch 39, ch 41.

	- '''[[Prassel]]''' - Prassel holds her commission from the Commission and is en route to the Archipelago to present her report in person. The Commission made use of her during the war and on the Archipelago; [[Fowlett]] presided over show trials alongside her, then banished her "with the very clear intent that she never come back." In the final confrontation she denounces the Commission for making her and her peers into butchers, then secedes entirely - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 31, ch 40.		* '''[[Prassel]]''' - Prassel holds her commission from the Commission and is en route to the Archipelago to present her report in person. The Commission made use of her during the war and on the Archipelago; [[Fowlett]] presided over show trials alongside her, then banished her "with the very clear intent that she never come back." In the final confrontation she denounces the Commission for making her and her peers into butchers, then secedes entirely - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 31, ch 40.

	- '''[[Prassel\|The Lich Queen]]''' - The Lich Queen owes allegiance to the Commission and will request deployment orders from it; she holds her commission as Sage-Inquirer from the Commission and seeks to have them "redact her science from the lists" and reinstate necromancy. The Commission sent her to the Successor Steppes four years prior and never recalled her; she returned on her own initiative upon hearing the siege's distress communiques. A moment of shared guilt passes between Fowlett and the Lich Queen over the camp exterminations, which the Commission's reports "barely mention" - an event that saw Fowlett lauded and the Lich Queen exiled - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 25, ch 38, ch 6.		* '''[[Prassel\|The Lich Queen]]''' - The Lich Queen owes allegiance to the Commission and will request deployment orders from it; she holds her commission as Sage-Inquirer from the Commission and seeks to have them "redact her science from the lists" and reinstate necromancy. The Commission sent her to the Successor Steppes four years prior and never recalled her; she returned on her own initiative upon hearing the siege's distress communiques. A moment of shared guilt passes between Fowlett and the Lich Queen over the camp exterminations, which the Commission's reports "barely mention" - an event that saw Fowlett lauded and the Lich Queen exiled - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 25, ch 38, ch 6.

	- '''[[Ochelby]]''' - Ochelby aspires to a seat on the Commission, and his mission to Scrymisa is undertaken partly as a bid for that elevation - City of Last Chances, ch 2.		* '''[[Ochelby]]''' - Ochelby aspires to a seat on the Commission, and his mission to Scrymisa is undertaken partly as a bid for that elevation - City of Last Chances, ch 2.

	- '''[[Flockersly\|Professor-Invigilator Flockersly]]''' - Flockersly heads Outreach and sits on the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means; it is in his dual capacity that he summons Angilly, reviews her record, promotes her, and assigns her to Usmai - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 6.		* '''[[Flockersly\|Professor-Invigilator Flockersly]]''' - Flockersly heads Outreach and sits on the Temporary Commission of Ends and Means; it is in his dual capacity that he summons Angilly, reviews her record, promotes her, and assigns her to Usmai - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 6.

	- '''[[Runkel\|Sage-Monitor Runkel]]''' - Runkel enforces the Commission's rules on the army; the Commission's ban on alcohol is referred to colloquially as "Uncle's prohibition" - House of Open Wounds, ch 18.		* '''[[Runkel\|Sage-Monitor Runkel]]''' - Runkel enforces the Commission's rules on the army; the Commission's ban on alcohol is referred to colloquially as "Uncle's prohibition" - House of Open Wounds, ch 18.

	- '''[[Banders]]''' - Banders grew up in the Commission's orphanages, whose stated purpose is "a debt to the Commission of Ends and Means" - House of Open Wounds, ch 30.		* '''[[Banders]]''' - Banders grew up in the Commission's orphanages, whose stated purpose is "a debt to the Commission of Ends and Means" - House of Open Wounds, ch 30.

	- '''[[The Dead Emperor]]''' - The Dead Emperor permits the Commission's philosophy as a successor to god-worship, but the Lich Queen insists their cause is Palleseen, not imperial - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 25.		* '''[[The Dead Emperor]]''' - The Dead Emperor permits the Commission's philosophy as a successor to god-worship, but the Lich Queen insists their cause is Palleseen, not imperial - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 25.

	- '''[[Dantell]]''' - Dantell obtained her post through back-channels involving the Commission's leadership. She fears the Commission's judgment on her wartime "magical improvisation" and receives the Culling List from it; she also imagines its "Professors" scandalised by absurd titles and dreads the Commission turning its eye on the camp's failures and its instruments - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 6, ch 11, ch 23.		* '''[[Dantell]]''' - Dantell obtained her post through back-channels involving the Commission's leadership. She fears the Commission's judgment on her wartime "magical improvisation" and receives the Culling List from it; she also imagines its "Professors" scandalised by absurd titles and dreads the Commission turning its eye on the camp's failures and its instruments - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 6, ch 11, ch 23.

	- '''[[Aspel]]''' - Aspel does not question the Commission, "just did as she was told," and has never examined what her equations subtract from the world; she has become "as great an apostate as the Pope of Tides" by following numbers over the Commission's doctrine - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 35, ch 25.		* '''[[Aspel]]''' - Aspel does not question the Commission, "just did as she was told," and has never examined what her equations subtract from the world; she has become "as great an apostate as the Pope of Tides" by following numbers over the Commission's doctrine - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 35, ch 25.

	- '''[[Istreddy\|Cohort-Broker Istreddy]]''' - Istreddy believes the Commission made him a monster and sent him to do "monster work" against his own people on the Archipelago - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 35.		* '''[[Istreddy\|Cohort-Broker Istreddy]]''' - Istreddy believes the Commission made him a monster and sent him to do "monster work" against his own people on the Archipelago - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 35.

	- '''[[Fowlett]]''' - Fowlett heads the Commission's enforcement arm, described as "the very will of the Commission come here to answer the Os-Fferegh question." He presided over show trials alongside Prassel during the war and later banished her - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 31.		* '''[[Fowlett]]''' - Fowlett heads the Commission's enforcement arm, described as "the very will of the Commission come here to answer the Os-Fferegh question." He presided over show trials alongside Prassel during the war and later banished her - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 31.

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