Jan the Baptist

Patriarch Jan the Baptist was the Kirvan Patriarch of Bishant during the mid-400s A.U. and, secretly, the father of Empress Theoboda Kataph. He is believed to have helped create the occult conditions for the angel Leandra to manifest toward Theoboda and form a bond of prophecy between the Empress and the angle.
== History ==
Jan spent his early career as an agent in the Kirvan abolitionist movement in Fialta space, helping to spread Kirvanism among enslaved people and facilitate their escape. In the course of his missions, he was exposed to a cocktail of Dalthadi drugs which would inflict a lifelong dependency on him. At some point after an especially heroic abolitionist effort that also destroyed his cover and ability to operate in the region, he was rewarded for his service and knowledge of Fialta politics with a court position, in which he became close with the Kataph family and is believed to have begun an affair with Lady Demetra, wife of then Crown-Prince (and future Emperor) Valentinus Kataph. 
Jan was killed in in an assassination that appeared to have been carried out by agents of the Fialta Militia, but which was in fact orchestrated by Knights of Adarnum Grandmaster Arren Kane. After his death, Empress Theoboda Kataph became the new Patriarch of Bishant.
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