Big Vlad

Big Vlad Olgimsky (Влад Ольгимский старший) is the head of the Olgimsky family and the leader of the Town-on-Gorkhon's industrial world.

Description
He's clever, but quick-tempered and unrestrained. He is terrible in anger because of his enormous size and power. Big Vlad is capricious, cruel and biased in his judgements.

The power of urban industry is concentrated in his hands. But so far, a great deal of his power has passed to his son, Vlad the Younger. His son doesn't have the best relationship with his father because they disagree about how best to manage and subordinate the workers and the steppe: the father thinks is right to treat them almost as though half-animal; the son believes in the value of their culture and communicates with them on an almost-equal footing.

Despite the seemingly obvious contempt for the nomads, he received the title of Böos, "like a bull."

His role in the Bull Project
Clan Olgimsky, led by Big Vlad, controls the meat processing plant, the Termitary, and to some extent the Abattoir. In fact, the Abattoir was initially realized by the forces of all three dominant families of the city, but is now run mostly by the older and younger Olgimsky.

His role in the construction of the Polyhedron
Although the construction of Polyhedron traditionally has been credited with the Stamatin genius and their patrons, the Kains, the main force for its physical construction was offered by Big Vlad. For this project, he mobilized the Order and thus gave the architect the required number of hands, and possibly materials as well.

Future
After that Vlad the Younger locked the Termitary at the beginning of the epidemic, leaving the people of the Order there to die of starvation, the steppe craves revenge on the one who is to blame. Despite his conflicts with his son, Big Vlad without hesitation agrees to cover it, taking the blame. The protagonist (the Bachelor or Haruspex) has a choice: to name for the nomads the true culprit, Vlad the Younger, or his father, ready to pay with his life for the continued existence of his business and his family, which without a successor such as Vlad the Younger will hardly retain any influence in the face of Big Vlad's death.

Alexander's take on him:
«Vlad is a cunning and unfriendly man. Dealing with him is tough. I find it odd that he runs the Kin so smoothly. Civilized people can't usually find a common tongue with our Steppe people; you have to turn into a beast regularly in order to communicate with them. I think they've stricken some sort of secret pact; this peace has to have a hefty price.»

Victor's take:
«This town prospers thanks to his acumen. The Abattoir, the factories, the warehouses; the trading processes themselves are completely under his control. Saburov and I have long abandoned our attempts to interfere with his domain; we don't have the slightest idea of The Bull Project's day-to-day life. I wouldn't be surprised to find out one day that Vlad had installed slavery there.»