5/ 7 Members of the Bate Family.

1- Master Bate

As the eldest son and heir to the family plantation , Master Bate is the only member of the family to own slaves. He has a somewhat unsavoury reputation for a great liking for sex, both with willing free women and with his slave women who have no choice in the matter. He has a liking for scrolls of pornography.

2-Celli Bate

Partly because of her own perceived flaws and partly because women in her country are expected to maintain high moral standards, Celli Bate is still a virgin in her thirties and has had no luck with suitors so far. Unlike Master Bate, she owns no slaves and even if she did, it would be a social disgrace for her to have a child from a slave or someone below her own social class.

3-Pro Bate

The second richest member of the Bate family, Pro Bate is a lawyer in good standing with the state bar who specialises in last wills and testaments and the legal disputes that sometimes arise from them. As far as is known he is not corrupt.

4-Re Bate

Re Bate is doing well financially because he recently got a tax rebate because of a combination of how well the state is doing financially and the governor’s desire to win another term of office when his existing term ends.

5-Repro Bate

Repro Bate is truly the black sheep of the Bate family, with a bad reputation for laziness, drinking too much and swearing, and as if that is not bad enough he served five years in prison for theft and burglary. He would have served longer, but Master Bate bribed the governor to give him a pardon and then gave him a paid job as a slave overseer on his plantation.