Buru Tovo

Summary
Tovo inDaina of Loaloa, or Buru Tovo, was the tana'tai of the Vangavaye-ve before Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, as well as Cliopher's great-uncle.

During the events of The Hands of the Emperor and Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander, he is around 90 years old.

Early Life
When Tovo was around 20 years old, he set out to see the world, sailing east all the way to the edge of the Wide Seas, and north and west all the way to Kavanduru. There he met Emperor Eritanyr (then only Prince Eritanyr), who was on progress at the time.

He was curious to see what this emperor was like (and if he was anything like Aurelius Magnus, who Elonoa'a had stayed for. Tovo had sex with both the bored young prince and the apprentice of a painter who was on the expedition, but thought the apprentice was much better and didn't stay.

The painter's picture of Tovo in his best finery made it into the Atlas of Imperial Peoples as the image of a Wide Seas Islander.

Adult Life
Tovo was at some point given two kookaburra feathers but Vou'a, in return for a "personal, private promise".

Tovo has maintained a sufficiently longstanding relationship with Vou'a that |Gaudy describes him as a "god-touched hermit" and as Tovo's boyfriend.