(fallen london stamps by there's a 90% chance I'm throwing my support behind the Eagle/Khanate competitors and it's amost entirely because of this NPC
(also we almost never get the chance to just like, hang with the Khanate in a friendly, collaborative way with no ulterior motives? I'm a different flavor of Asian but That Diaspora Feeling still has me squishing my face against the Positive Interactions With The Khanate window longingly, like a bereft Victorian orphan)