Ivan Xav Vorpatril

"If I knew how the haut-women do it," Maz sighs, "I'd bottle it and sell it. No, better — I think I'd keep it for myself. But it seems to have worked for the last several hundred years. It is not, of course, the only method of Imperial control, to be sure. Only the most overlooked one. I find that, in itself, significant. The haut are nothing if not subtle."