Nim Lawfey

"Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. In a kingdom as unruly as the Final Empire, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder."
-Nim Lawfey
== History ==
The ambassador is a svirfneblin of great age, and a master illusionist. He is feared and respected, and foiled many plots to overthrow him while he was the Lord-Emperor. He worships the goddess Skadi. 
Nim Lawfey was a scribe to Emperor Monopoly, serving as an advisor and a political force from the shadows. When the Doom came, no one even knew who he was when he made his claim to the throne. Nim Lawfey was one of the few who knew how the domes worked, and felt a duty to continue the Emperor’s work. He defeated rival claimants and managed to hold the Final Empire together, until a rebellion by the mages Silvius and Brennen brought his kingdom down. When he saw that it was an unwinnable war, he surrendered, and was allowed to serve as the Imperial Ambassador in the new regime. 
== Personality ==
A calculating and secretive man, Nim Lawfey is driven by a relentless sense of duty. He does not seek power, but feels that he is the only one able to shoulder certain responsibilities. A believer in Emperor Monopoly’s project, he despises the Illuminated and the entire concept of Philosopher-Kings. He does not believe in any kind of world order, but in an alliance of self-interested nation states, and he brings this philosophy to bear as the Final Empire’s ambassador. 
== War of the Philosopher-Kings ==
Nim Lawfey continued to serve as the ambassador of the Final Empire, a role that became increasingly irrelevant as war consumed the world. He spent much time in Aglazdere, trying his upmost to reach a peace agreement with Padishah Rick. Though he was distrusted by Grand Vizier Annakiya, the Padishah - a fellow Gnome - would grudgingly come to see the aged diplomat as a fatherly figure. Upon the sack of Al Mandera, Nim Lawfey was able to persuade Rick to put aside his enmity with Silvius and move to the rescue of the Final Empire. Not long after Rick's overthrow and death, Nim Lawfey would die of old age in Aglazdere. Mercifully, he would never have to see the destruction of the Final Empire, the country he had given everything he had to protect. Category:Mages
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