Lorth Talleg

Lorth Talleg is the Seventeenth Chair of the Lothrian Grand Conclave, the governing body of the Lothriad. Tall and striking, he carries himself with the bearing of a king and speaks perfect Galstani, having studied in the Sollan Empire at Teukros -- a detail he shares only in private, removing his auto-translator earpiece to do so.

Talleg serves as the most actively engaged host among the Chairs during the Imperial delegation's visit, leading debates in the Grand Conclave and entertaining Hadrian and Valka at dinner and at the First Ballet. He introduces himself by his private name, explaining that only Party members possess names while the lower class -- the zuks -- have none.

Ideologically, Talleg is an articulate champion of the Conclave's program of total social transformation: the elimination of Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Thoughts, Old Desires, and Old Natures, with the ultimate goal of replacing Old Bodies with engineered humans that lack biological sex. He describes himself as a steward and handmaid of the Lothriad, and holds that the Conclave's final purpose is to dissolve itself once the Lothriad is perfected. He regards scholiasts as relics of the old order with no place in the future. In philosophical debate with Hadrian, he demonstrates formidable erudition, completing a Proust quotation mid-sentence.