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Sir '''Shano Tuvria''', RAK, ΣT (b. 19 February 1961—Present; name sometimes given as "'''Šano Šonai Tuvria'''" or "Shano Tõvria") is a former Secretary-General of the [[International Forum]], elected on February 18th, 2021 and serving until August 15th, 2021. He was the first [[orc]] to serve in that position. Prior to serving as Secretary-General, Tuvria was the Prime Minister of [[Tavaris]] from 2017-2021. He was considered to be the primary architect and diplomatic force behind the [[Alliance of Northwest Gondwana]], whose negotiations he initiated in 2018. He also oversaw a normalization of relations with [[Bana]] and brought them into the ANG in 2020.
As Prime Minister of Tavaris, Tuvria also negotiated an agreement with [[Vistaraland]] for the purchase of nuclear warheads and to jointly develop new weapon designs in the future. This was in addition to the nascent Tavari nuclear program, begun in 2012, which he revealed to the public along with the Vistari agreement in 2021. The agreement was highly polarizing across the Tavari political spectrum, and led to the failure of his governing coalition and snap elections in February 2021. While his party won with a vastly increased number of seats, allowing it to attain a majority alone, Tuvria announced 8 days after his re-election that he would be resigning from Parliament and accepting the job of Secretary-General of the International Forum. He was succeeded by his Deputy Prime Minister, the politically popular [[Žarís Nevran Alandar]].
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On January 17th, 2022, it was reported by Tuvria's then-wife, Linda, that he had passed away from complications due to stomach cancer. Unbeknownst to all but Linda Šonai Tuvria and four accomplices, Tuvria was not dead, and had in fact been smuggled out of the country and into the [[Danvreas]], with his body replaced by a double. Linda had bribed her husband's supervising physician to place him in a medically induced coma and to declare him dead, out of an apparent desire to prevent him from returning to his political career, the stress of which she blamed for his cancer. In fact, Tuvria's cancer was in remission. Tuvria spent some eight months in the Danvreas, in captivity and then on the run trying to escape. He was apprehended on August 25th, 2022, by Banian border patrol officials after trying to swim the Miku River into Bana, and returned to Tavaris.
Since returning, Tuvria
==Knighthood==
On July 10th, 2022, while Tavari officials were still under the impression that Tuvria was deceased, he was "posthumously" made a Knight of the Amethyst Order (Tavari: ''Revondran Azocažan Koσobicavi''), the country's highest honor. Knights of the Amethyst Order, established by Queen Anadra I in 1371, were originally the country's most elite warriors, entrusted with the defense of the King, but the honor gradually shifted over time to a ceremonial one celebrating achievements by both soldiers and civilians for deeds on and off the battlefield. Knights are entitled to use the title ''Sir'' in Staynish (Tavari: ''Avda'') and the postnominals "RAK." Since the 1793 Abolition of the Chiefs, Knights of the Amethyst Order are the only individuals in Tavaris who can be awarded individual crests from the Herald of the Silver Court. Tuvria's posthumous knighthood, awarded by Emperor [[Otan IV]] of the Tavari upon the nomination of Prime Minister Žarís Nevran Alandar, honored Tuvria for his "staid and steady, diplomatic leadership" that "ushered in a new era of international engagement in Tavari history," citing the normalization of relations with the [[Federation of Bana]] achieved under his tenure as Prime Minister and his achievement of being the first Tavari citizen to be elected head of the "world's leading international organization," the [[International Forum]]. When it became known that Tuvria was still alive, the Silver Court announced that it was "unclear" whether a posthumous award was valid for an individual who later turned out to be alive, and so on June 6th, 2023—the one-year anniversary of the [[Tavari Union]], an international festival called Union Day—his knighthood was "re-issued." Shano Tuvria is thus the only person in Tavari history to be awarded a knighthood twice.
For his crest, Tuvria selected the colors green and gold—the same as his alma mater, Tavaris Central University—and the emblem of two crossed macaw feathers, one of which being tipped with a pen nib, making it a σanivat's quill. The macaw is the Tavari national animal, and its feathers are heraldic symbols reserved for former Prime Ministers or members of the royal family. Additionally, the symbol of the σanivat's quill is strictly regulated under Tavari law, and only certified σanivati are permitted to represent themselves with the symbol in any context whatsoever. Tuvria's crest thus represents his status as the only Tavari Prime Minister whose private career prior to entering politics was being a σanivat tažnažan. (A handful of other Prime Ministers have also held σanivat certifications, but all these were practicing [[wikipedia:lawyer|attorneys-at-law]] who attained the certification secondarily and who did not regularly practice σanivat law.)
==As Prime Minister==
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