Nuadis

Admiral Nuadis, senior officer of the loyal Farisian Navy. Minalan (as Mirkandar) visits him aboard his ship at Calafel:

Admiral Nuadis was an elderly gentleman, I saw as we entered his small cabin, but the sea had toughened him like leather. There was no frailty in the frame of the man who stood when we entered. There was a tea pot and two cups set out.

Minalan says:

I'm here to speak to Admiral Nuadis. I'm Mirkandar the Magnificent, the Elector who wrote you.

Nuadis assesses him quietly: "You are trying to bribe me for my loyalty?" Ultimately persuaded — gives his first mate orders to prepare to depart for the Straights. At the takeover, he "very publicly prepared fifty naval infantrymen in uniform to conduct vessel seizures, augmented with a few mercenary warmagi I'd hired." An iron-spine old sailor who becomes Minalan's naval arm in Farise.