Don Ibrahim

Dates: 1860-1980. (Yes, he dies fifty years after the canonical present day. This is important.)
Position: Secretary of the Caliphal Household.
Preceded by: His father, Don Musa Cordovero

The least democratic institution in the UCNA is the Caliphal Household. Founded under Yusuf I, it has survived chart reforms, two regencies, three succession crises and Populism almost unscathed. Holding an ambiguous position, both private employees of the caliph and public servants of the caliphate, the Caliphal Household is barely accountable to either.

Between the death of Yusuf I and the rise of Yusuf II, the most powerful man in the UCNA was a Sephardi Jew whose friends and enemies alike styled him simply "Don Musa." The son is more formidable than the father; as of 1930 he is the longest-serving man in the government of New Andalusia at around 45 years. His name is Don Ibrahim - and if Cardinal Richelieu was hale as an ox, and could kill you with the power of his Kabbalah, he would start coming close to the fearful awe commanded by the UCNA's bespectacled court Jew.

The brief childhood of Ibrahim Cordovero

In 1859, Don Musa's newest wife [who?] becomes pregnant. She bears him her first son, named Ibrahim after his maternal grandmother. [who?] Don Musa, away at the time [details?], didn't find out about it until a week later. It set the tone for things to come.

• Don Musa spent most of his son's childhood away, and most of his teenage years convalescent. Predictably, Ibrahim was much closer to his mother; at her funeral [when?] he broke down in tears, which nobody expected him to do.
• Near the end of Don Musa's life, with his father slipping in and out of lucidity, Ibrahim was basically tasked with caretaking for him (in part because Don Musa was becoming rather paranoid at that point.) His father's memory has been colored by how much caretaking he had to do for the old man. (Yusuf III's got a totally opposite personality from Don Musa's, but his dependency on other people leads Don Ibrahim to compare them nonetheless.)

In 1887, Don Musa (age 91) dies, leaving his son as designated successor.

The secretariat of Don Ibrahim

Don Ibrahim comes of age after the death of his father and the last of the weak caliphs [who?], leaving behind an Abdallah as the heir to the throne. To make matters worse, his initial nomination for the regency [who?] is vetoed by the Maxaha. Fortunately for him, he makes a fast friend in the form of Yusuf II.

Don Ibrahim dies peacefully in his sleep in 1980, four days short of his 121st birthday.

This is a work in progress. It will be expanded upon.