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Profile: Márkës Vinsëłmø-Ŕymè

A series on important Snefaldians, format shamelessly stolen from Knootoss
Snefaldians in Profile: Márkës Vinsëłmø-Ŕymè

The eldest child of Republic-era diplomat Abrávän Vinsëłmø-Ŕymè and grandson of the influential senator Wolšelm Vinsëłmø-Ŕymè, Márkës was born in 1948 into a rich and respected family with deep connections to the Republic of Snefaldia. He spent the early years of his life in private schools in Sargedaín, his place of birth and family home, and as the eldest son accompanied his father on several diplomatic missions abroad in the late 1950s while his younger brother, Šygmë, was prepare for a future in the military. Márkës was sent abroad to study in the Resurgent Dream in 1960, but returned in 1964 at the age of 18 in the wake of the collapse of the Republic and the Civil War.

His return to Snefaldia was a jarring one; his family has been impoverished and shut out of government service by the new policies of the Aatem Nal theocrats, three years of famine had wracked the country, and his space at university was in jeopardy because of his family's background. He took an unusual course: taking advantage of amnesty policies, he formally joined Aatem Nal and took up studies in the Grand Library of Snefaldia, rising to the rank of Scholar in 1968 before going on to study at the University of Isaärdlang, taking a master's degree in 1972.

Márkës remained on the periphery of government, taking a teaching position at Sargedaín Metropolitan University and teaching courses in public policy, international trade policy, and domestic infrastructure planning; despite the broad scope of the subjects, he was respected enough to receive an appointment to a Tuhran Bel advisory committee on urban public policy in 1981. He was further called to a committee on tariffs and trade in 1984 by Central Council member Jeroen Seefeikh, a powerful figure in the Tuhran Bel and veteran of the 1963 March on Sargedaín. The 1980s saw Márkës become more involved with government work, sometimes alongside his brother, who was then working for the Ministry of War. In 1990, when reformist politician Reijihan Herad and his bloc took control of the Central Council of the Bel, Márkës was formally invited by Seefeikh to enter government; he joined as Second-Grade Minister of Commerce, and in 1994 he moved directly to the Chancellery where he advised Chancellor Kellerman on international and domestic policy.

During this period, his influence was always quiet: he preferred to lead from behind, providing planning and advice for his superiors; his economic, urban, and international policies bore the hallmark of a strong neoconservative bent: the belief that Snefaldia needed to open up further to the world, involve itself in the management of regional crises and stability, and encourage safe, prosperous development. He left government in 2000 to take up a teaching position in the Grand Library, but returned to politics at Reijihan Herad's request in 2005 to help plan for a transition to democracy. Out of respect for his mentor and obedience to his faith, he complied, even joining the neoconservative National Party and winning election to the Chamber of Deputies and becoming Lord Chamberlain during the Mugałlu and Dirh administrations.

However, he became quickly disillusioned with direct democracy, especially after the death of Reijihan Herad in 2007, and resigned his seat and left the National Party in 2010, displeased with the ineffective Chancellery of Niuhuru Sigiyanu. He became a vocal critic of Chancellor Ren Dirh's second administration, and was rumoured to be considering his own run for the Chancellery in an election that Dirh ally Tahyë Wølmeÿ won. Because of his public frustrations with the effectiveness of the Parliament and Wølmeÿ's administration, and because of his credentials, he was approached by Marshal Pairi Hantili and agree to take part in the 2014 coup. He served on the new Supreme Council, and then in the reconstituted Bėl as Lord Chamberlain, but grew disillusioned and increasingly repelled by the repression used by Hantili's radical faction and allied with his brother's neoconservative faction and the traditionalists that comprised the Supreme Council to purge the Field Marshal and his supporters.

When all was said and done, Vinsëłmø-Ŕymè was the Lord Chancellor. After many years of serving behind the scenes, he was now holding reigns of power. His administration is neoconservative: traditional Snefaldian values, open society, free trade and markets, and involvement abroad. Domestic industries are supported and even state-owned, and great emphasis is placed on a national Snefaldian identity and loyalty to the nation, and therefore the state. Although under his Chancellery the excesses of the Hantili coup have been curbed, political freedoms and civil rights are still restricted; recalling the skill with which his mentor Herad manipulated the media and the process to achieve his ends, his government co-opts and influences the media in order to promote their message.

In his personal life, he is a relatively devout follower of Aatem Nal; sources indicate that one of the reasons he turned against Hantili was because of the deposition Grand Librarian Andrew Holbrook and his later death in prison. He has been married twice; his second wife died in 1997 and he has not remarried. He has two children and one grandchild, a grandson by his son Ístam. He is a philanthropist, donating money to impoverished education institutions in Snefaldia and also providing the endowments for Aatem Nal centers in The Resurgent Dream, Knootoss, and Aerion.

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