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	== Affiliations ==		== Affiliations ==
	- [[Usmai]] - heir		* [[Usmai]] - heir

	== History ==		== History ==
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	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[His Tranquillity Oparan\|Oparan]]''' - Father and son. Oparan names Dekamran heir with a blind hand finding his "soft shoulder," calling him "the dutiful, the obedient"-words that read as both praise and apology. - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 10. Dekamran guides him through ceremonies, shields his grief from the court, and cannot accept his disappearance into the Grove as abdication. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 9, ch 15. Oparan loves him but fears his hidden ambition and the possibility that surrendering power will make him hungrier. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 5.		* '''[[His Tranquillity Oparan\|Oparan]]''' - Father and son. Oparan names Dekamran heir with a blind hand finding his "soft shoulder," calling him "the dutiful, the obedient"-words that read as both praise and apology. - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 10. Dekamran guides him through ceremonies, shields his grief from the court, and cannot accept his disappearance into the Grove as abdication. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 9, ch 15. Oparan loves him but fears his hidden ambition and the possibility that surrendering power will make him hungrier. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 5.

	- '''[[Gorbudan]]''' - Elder brother, warrior prince, eventual usurper. Their relationship spans the full register of fraternal love: Dekamran offers him a place at his right hand, deliberately closes the distance unarmed to provoke an embrace rather than a duel; Gorbudan calls him "Kama," admits "you would have been the best of Alkhands, in any other age," then imprisons him. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 13, ch 20. Gorbudan reads him as a dupe of the Palleseen but bears no true ill will. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 5. Gorbudan engineers a howdah attack to demonstrate his own worthiness, and Dekamran recognises the gesture. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 22.		* '''[[Gorbudan]]''' - Elder brother, warrior prince, eventual usurper. Their relationship spans the full register of fraternal love: Dekamran offers him a place at his right hand, deliberately closes the distance unarmed to provoke an embrace rather than a duel; Gorbudan calls him "Kama," admits "you would have been the best of Alkhands, in any other age," then imprisons him. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 13, ch 20. Gorbudan reads him as a dupe of the Palleseen but bears no true ill will. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 5. Gorbudan engineers a howdah attack to demonstrate his own worthiness, and Dekamran recognises the gesture. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 22.

	- '''[[Angilly]]''' - The relationship that defines his arc. They meet at the duelling circles; she cultivates him as a political contingency; he calls her "Gil" and she drops "Sier." - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 8, ch 10. For seven years they are friends and allies across war and loss. They become lovers in secret, crossing a boundary both Usmai custom and Palleseen ordinance forbid. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 10, ch 11. She frees him from the House of Hard Angles, gives him an army, and places him on the Mirror Throne-actions she takes for personal reasons, not policy. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20, ch 28. After his installation he shuts her out; she erupts: "We're doing this for you, Dekamran. I'm doing this for you." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 28. He needs her and wants her, and the text marks the yearning as a sickness unbefitting an Alkhand. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 31. Their story ends in the Constellar Gardens with a tableth duel: she swallows the killing word; he does not. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 47.		* '''[[Angilly]]''' - The relationship that defines his arc. They meet at the duelling circles; she cultivates him as a political contingency; he calls her "Gil" and she drops "Sier." - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 8, ch 10. For seven years they are friends and allies across war and loss. They become lovers in secret, crossing a boundary both Usmai custom and Palleseen ordinance forbid. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 10, ch 11. She frees him from the House of Hard Angles, gives him an army, and places him on the Mirror Throne-actions she takes for personal reasons, not policy. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 20, ch 28. After his installation he shuts her out; she erupts: "We're doing this for you, Dekamran. I'm doing this for you." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 28. He needs her and wants her, and the text marks the yearning as a sickness unbefitting an Alkhand. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 31. Their story ends in the Constellar Gardens with a tableth duel: she swallows the killing word; he does not. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 47.

	- '''[[Enshili]]''' - Sister. He was kind to her in childhood; she misses him most after his disappearance and suspects he may have been "building a prison around her." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 19. She declares she wants to "laugh in his face, show him my fangs" when he comes to claim her, but ultimately appears among the conspirators to rescue him from the House of Hard Angles. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 24, ch 43.		* '''[[Enshili]]''' - Sister. He was kind to her in childhood; she misses him most after his disappearance and suspects he may have been "building a prison around her." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 19. She declares she wants to "laugh in his face, show him my fangs" when he comes to claim her, but ultimately appears among the conspirators to rescue him from the House of Hard Angles. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 24, ch 43.

	- '''[[Follo]]''' - Preceptor of the Usrani, a fixture of Dekamran's childhood who always made time for the younger prince. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43. Follo trusts him as a man but publicly rejects his leadership: "you have eaten away at your name, one decision at a time, and now it will not bear you." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43. Follo officiates the duel Dekamran calls for in the Constellar Gardens. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 47.		* '''[[Follo]]''' - Preceptor of the Usrani, a fixture of Dekamran's childhood who always made time for the younger prince. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43. Follo trusts him as a man but publicly rejects his leadership: "you have eaten away at your name, one decision at a time, and now it will not bear you." - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43. Follo officiates the duel Dekamran calls for in the Constellar Gardens. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 47.

	- '''[[Flint Postry\|Flint]]''' - Military ally and eventual friend. Flint addresses him as "Your Tranquillity" and swears to uphold his rule. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 21. They bond over mutual "bad qualities"-idealistic recklessness and risk-taking ambition. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 23. Dekamran overrules Flint's tactical wishes; Flint considers the venture a usurpation but follows orders. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 22, ch 26.		* '''[[Flint Postry\|Flint]]''' - Military ally and eventual friend. Flint addresses him as "Your Tranquillity" and swears to uphold his rule. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 21. They bond over mutual "bad qualities"-idealistic recklessness and risk-taking ambition. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 23. Dekamran overrules Flint's tactical wishes; Flint considers the venture a usurpation but follows orders. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 22, ch 26.

	- '''[[Lhisamena]]''' - Tesemer guardian who calls him "princeling" with contempt and would kill him with her falx if he encroached on the Alkhand's person. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 3. She watched him grow up "in the shadow of his more able brother" and judged him unfit as a child. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 26. She attacks him at the Sand Lanes with a falx and is shot dead mid-charge. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 26.		* '''[[Lhisamena]]''' - Tesemer guardian who calls him "princeling" with contempt and would kill him with her falx if he encroached on the Alkhand's person. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 3. She watched him grow up "in the shadow of his more able brother" and judged him unfit as a child. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 26. She attacks him at the Sand Lanes with a falx and is shot dead mid-charge. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 26.

	- '''[[Loret]]''' - Angilly's aide and later a conspirator. She files the suppressed attraction between Angilly and Dekamran as potential leverage on first meeting. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 6. She kills a Pal soldier in a single fluid motion during the escape from the House of Hard Angles. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43.		* '''[[Loret]]''' - Angilly's aide and later a conspirator. She files the suppressed attraction between Angilly and Dekamran as potential leverage on first meeting. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 6. She kills a Pal soldier in a single fluid motion during the escape from the House of Hard Angles. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 43.

	- '''[[Orhuhst]]''' - Cotto captain and reluctant ally. They exchange a wary farewell after the battle; Orhuhst predicts "they'll make a general of him yet" and that they will "lock horns" someday. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 48.		* '''[[Orhuhst]]''' - Cotto captain and reluctant ally. They exchange a wary farewell after the battle; Orhuhst predicts "they'll make a general of him yet" and that they will "lock horns" someday. - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 48.

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