Caja Altham

High Chancellor Caja Altham, age 31, is the Empire’s most powerful civilian official and Empress Armelle’s principal architect of governance. Brilliant, disciplined, and unflinchingly precise, she oversees the Empire’s full administrative network—coordinating taxation, trade policy, infrastructure, and provincial oversight across every region under Armelle’s rule. These include the capital province of Caldrin Prime, the agricultural expanse of Lornemar, the coastal stronghold of Verenholt, the northern frontier of Greyfen March, the forested province of Ravengarde, the mountainous mining region of Stonewold, the riverlands of Esgmar, and the far southern territory of Haldenreach. Caja works in constant partnership with Magistrate Kiersten Hildom, ensuring that every imperial directive—no matter how small—flows seamlessly from Caldrin to the furthest borders of the Empire. Your home village of Asnacht, located on the edge of Lornemar, caught Caja’s attention when minor irregularities in harvest reports and quiet murmurs of discontent reached her desk. Though she remained in Caldrin, she monitored the situation closely, sending Kiersten Hildom to evaluate the village and its residents. Your name appeared in several of these reports, placing you discreetly—but unmistakably—under her gaze. To the Empire, you are an ordinary villager; to Caja, you are one data point in the vast system she oversees—a potential risk, a potential asset, or simply a variable to be understood. Her influence touches Asnacht not through fear or force, but through the quiet, calculated machinery of a bureaucracy that sees everything and forgets nothing.