Aina Shulivar

'' “It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it,” Shulivar said. “Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical action is necessary to free it. And if you look, you will see that it is already working. If I had not done what I did, a half-goblin such as yourself would never have gained the throne of the Ethuveraz.” ''

Aina Shulivar was a former apprentice to the Clocksmiths' Guild of Zhaö and later the maker of the clockwork device used to sabotage the Wisdom of Choharo, which was central to the Tethimadeise Conspiracy.

Appearance
He was "tall, a little gawky, with short-cropped black hair and vividly blue eyes; his skin was the same slate gray color as Maia's."

Personality
Thara Celehar described Shulivar as "an intense young man". When he was first brought before Maia after being arrested, he was “neither frightened nor hostile”. He was fervent in his belief that murdering 23 people was for the greater good, because it put a progressive on the throne.

Life
Shulivar was formerly “apprenticed to the Clocksmiths’ Guild and been thrown out as a troublemaker”.

Shulivar was a fervant follower of the philosopher Curnar. Thara Celehar called them "angry men". One group of the fervent Curneisei met at the Stone Tree, and Shulivar was "the motivating force behind Bralchenar's cadre of Curneisei". Shulivar “read Curnar metaphorically, and imagine[d] Universal Ascendance as a world in which no man holds power over any other.”

At some point, “Aina Shulivar made the device which destroyed the Wisdom of Choharo”. He was later taken prisoner by Celehar and the Vigilant Brotherhood, and brought to the Untheileneise Court, where they were "remanded to the Judiciate". Maia questioned him last of the three perpetrators of the destruction of the Wisdom of Choharo.  Although Shulivar explained that he regretted the deaths, Shulivar believed that what he did "had to be done", because Maia was more progressive than his father, and would dismantle opposition to progressive ideas to better the lives of workers, and possibly for women.

Shulivar was later tried for his actions and executed.

Skills
He had apprenticed to the Clocksmiths' Guild and created the device that destroyed the Wisdom of Choharo, so he was seemingly a skilled engineer and able to craft bombs.

Atho Narchanezhen
A fellow Curneisei. Thara “heard many long arguments between her and Shulivar about whether man’s power over woman is natural—and therefore unchangeable—or not”. She served as “the courier between Ubezhar and Shulivar—the two men had apparently agreed on their plan of destruction and murder without ever meeting face-to-face.”

Maia Drazhar
Shulivar horrified Maia, because of his belief that killing the people on the Wisdom of Choharo was the right thing to do, particularly because it put Maia - a progressive - on the throne. Maia thought he was mad.

Quotations

 * “I can already see the changes,” Shulivar said. “You do not hold on to power as your father and grandfather did. You are not afraid to let it go. And you have new ideas, ideas that no emperor before you has ever had. . . . No other emperor would ever have attended the funeral of his father’s servants. No other emperor would have accepted a woman as his nohecharis. You bring change, Edrehasivar, and you bring it because I opened the way for you.”