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A very long time ago, I did an influence map focusing just on Temre. This time, I expanded to her youngest son Garaon, and Professor Obligado's linguist/hippie domestic partner Nalmar. 

Garaon is a ladies man who is fiercely supportive of his nearest and dearest and the communities he supports. He's not as extreme as Brock or Barney Stintson. While he has had numerous lovers, he has rules for himself, and has been a major part in improving the careers of Utrom escorts - and raises hell if he discovers something has gone amiss. He is not quite hedonistic, but that is his reputation. That is not helped by his tremendous love of culinary arts. He is the only one in his family to actively pursue learning to cook and holds it as a mantle of pride - especially considering that he never wants to see anyone in his family so much as turning on a stove for fear of setting the kitchen on fire - worst of all his mother. 
Unlike his older siblings, he did not have military or political training, preferring "classical" education, learning poise, literature, music, business, and cookery. It gives him something to divide himself from his family - from his political father and sisters, and his military mother and brother.
He even started up a "station" for escorts to work from safely and under his watch, running it like a business to keep clients from getting up to no good. 

His mother, Temre, lived and breathed military life from birth until she became Empress. She gained a reputation as a force to be feared, but was adored for her bravery and admired for her tenderness. Her balance of compassion with ferocity has often been exploited as a weakness by her enemies, but she often used that to her advantage. She was raised by military medics and she enlisted into the army as soon as she was able, initially intending to follow her parents footsteps, but instead, found herself on a different path. Her combined reputation as an astute leader and multi-time war hero was enough that she was deemed worthy to become the General, and she did for many years, even after she married Prime Minister Quanin and raised her children. Only when her eldest Krang was an adult and Quanin declared himself Emperor did she relinquish her title as General to him so she could become Empress at her husband's side. She has very little love for politics and is often eager to help Krang with military matters. 
Her scar, gained from falling on an exposed exhaust pipe in an arctic POW camp, is her most identifiable and iconic features. She also has scars on her legs from getting frostbite in the same situation, but they're far more subdued.

Nalmar is a family friend, a hyper-polyglot linguistic genius, able to speak dozens of languages fluently and has deciphered three unknown languages - one of which from a single slab that turned out to be graffitti. However, she is also the Utrom equivalent of a granola hippie and a little bit of a ditz. Rumors say it's because of her use of drugs, but others argue she's always been that way. She and Professor Obligado became romantically entangled during her slab translation and they produced a daughter together, but opted not to marry, feeling that they didn't need to. Their daughter, Xeinos, would grow up to be an accomplished doctor - and lover of Earth wildlife, eventually becoming the primary caretaker and mother figure of the mutant alligator Leatherhead.
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