Aioru

Say' Aioru of the Kallarrahroo is a member of the Upper Secretariat in Zunidh's post-Fall government and an apprentice of Cliopher Kip" Mdang as a bureuacrat. He served as Kiri Kalikiri's chief assistant and as Minister of the Public Weal before succeeding Cliopher as Lord Chancellor of Zunidh.

Early Life
Aioru's tribe lives in the centre of the Hutabarrah, the Great Desert Basin of Jilkano, incredibly far from any ocean.

"Don't go looking for the sea" to mean "don't be a fool chasing the impossible" is a proverb of theirs. During his long journey home after the Fall, Cliopher Mdang passed through their territory looking for the sea, which was the source of this proverb.

Generations later for the Kallarrahroo (due to the post-Fall variations in time), the Prince of Jilkano-Lozoi sent miners into the desert, and built a mine near a sacred site without consulting the locals, causing conflict and some violence.

Some children from the tribe, including Aioru, were sent to the school in the miners' town to learn Shaian so that they could communicate more easily, and Aioru was among the most fluent.

When the negotiations reached a stalemate, the miners sent for assistance, and Cliopher Mdang, now a high member of the Secretariat, was sent to negotiate.

Aioru interpreted for Cliopher during the negotiations and was inspired by him - his willingness to listen to everyone, even Aioru, that he supported the tribespeople against the miners, and his story of also being from the hinterlands and having failed at first and persisted until he won a place. Aioru also realized then that Cliopher the man from the proverb, and had, in defiance of everything the elders told him he shouldn't want, actually found the sea.