Ildirans in The Saga of Seven Suns - Nobles

Nobles

• Avi'h - The youngest son of Mage-Imperator Cyroc'h and was the designate of the splinter colony at Maratha. Avi'h maintained his position of designate after the ascension of Prime Designate Jora'h to Mage-Imperator as Jora'h did not have time to father enough noble born sons before the death of Cyroc'h for Maratha to have a designate-in-waiting. The designate appeared to always be accompanied by the bureaucratic kithsman Bhali'v, and was killed at the end of the trek from Maratha Prime to Maratha Secda that was undertaken after the Prime site was sabotaged. Avi'h's murderers were the Klikiss robots that were working on the Secda site.
• Cyroc'h was the Ildiran Mage-Imperator who ruled at the beginning of the series. In his race's timeline, he is the successor of Yura'h and was succeeded by Jora'h. Cyroc'h was a schemer who upheld all of the Ildirans' sinister secrets and policies without consideration for anything else. To Cyroc'h, the only thing that mattered was preserving the Ildiran Empire, regardless of how many people suffered or died in the process. As far as the public were concerned, Cyroc'h was an obese and kind ruler, yet in reality he was remarkably irascible. He was willing to kill anyone who he felt was a liability (such as unsuspecting Dio'sh and various medical kithmen). Cyroc'h often voiced his disappointment in his Prime Designate, Jora'h, for being too sentimental. He did not feel that his first-born son would be up to the harsh duties of ruling the Empire, yet he had no other alternative. Instead, Cyroc'h found reassurance from Udru'h (his loyal second-born son, and Designate of Dobro) and his bodyguard. Cyroc'h felt that the green priest Nira could accelerate the Dobro breeding program, and thus had her kidnapped (having Ambassador Otema killed in the process) and taken to Dobro. He then informed Jora'h that the two priests had died in a fire, hoping to rid Jora'h of his foolish attachment to the green priest, instead it simply made Jora'h rather forlorn. Unbeknownst to the public, Mage-Imperator Cyroc'h was dying of a particularly fatal brain tumour. Though his condition was rapidly deteriorating, he still had a while to live. However, he chose to poison himself in order to force Jora'h to ascend to the throne, thus preventing him from freeing Nira (whom Jora'h had recently realised was still alive) from Dobro. In his years as Mage-Imperator, Jora'h grew to despise Cyroc'h even more for trapping him in a web of his race's own making.
• Jora'h - The eldest son of the Mage-Imperator Cyroc'h and Prime Designate of the Ildiran Empire.
• Pery'h - The Hyrillka Designate-in-waiting, third born noble purebreed son of Jora'h. Murdered during Rusa'h's rebellion due to his loyalty to his father.
• Rusa'h - The third born son of Mage-Imperator Cyroc'h, and therefore the assigned designate for the world of Hyrillka.
• Thor'h - The first-born son of Jora'h, and as such was destined to become the next Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire. Thor'h often acted brash and spoilt, even in times of crisis, finding his father's lack of drive to be frustrating. He eventually joined with his corrupted uncle Rusa'h in his rebellion, betraying his father and watching the merciless killing of his younger brother Pery'h. As a result of his treacherous actions Thor'h was disowned by Jora'h and was removed from the line of Succession. He was then replaced by his older and mixed blood brother Zah'nh, who is also leader of the full force of the Illdiran Solar Navy.
• Udru'h - The second born son of Mage-Imperator Cyroc'h, and therefore the assigned designate for the world of Dobro. An unusually dull and dreary world for an Ildiran splinter colony, and the location of the "Dobro Experiments".
• Yazra'h - The only noble born daughter of Jora'h, but preferred to spend her time among warrior kithmen rather than nobles. Jora'h assigned her as his personal bodyguard, a decision which provoked uproar among orthodox Ildirans. She later accompanies Rememberer Vao'sh and Anton Colicos to Hyrillka to act as mentor to young Ridek'h, who was accelerated into the position of Hyrillka designate by the murder of designate-in-waiting Pery'h by the then designate, Rusa'h. She is also the proud owner of three well trained, but still vicious, Isix Cats.