I saw this thread and I thought I would understand more about this character (well, I did in some ways) but I didn't see any explanation for what my char experienced with him. Reinald barely knew Imenant (only had a brief conversation with him once years ago and nothing more) when Imenant approached him for an alliance. Rei accepted gladly, listened to Imenant's plans with silent skepticism and just moved on. Next thing he learns about Imenant is that he goes around spreading rumors about him cheating on his wife here and there, even to the wife herself. Naturally he was incredibly surprised since he barely knew the guy (oocly I expected some sort of rational justification for this). So, next time he visited the Commons he found Imenant there badmouthing him to his estranged wife. After confronting him about it he found out that Imenant thought Reinald was Dayna's husband (really now, not everyone associating with Dayna was her lover or husband, jesus) and after pressing on the subject, Imenant started telling some pretty outrageous and insulting lies about Dayna's relationship with him and about Rei's supposed visits to brothels. After that, and especially after learning that he tried to hit on said estranged wife, Reinald considered him a worthless individual and completely unreliable as ally. In fact, he considered him barking mad as well.
Shame for this turn of events as I was hoping to see Ayamao get moving again but as my char found out, Imenant had become universally hated for similar crap so he wasn't too sad to see a rebellion against him. I would have been very interested to see this plan with moving the capital somewhere else being worked on, failing or whatever but I guess this generated a different outcome than what you expected.
Oh and sorry for trolling you so hard after killing Nakoro. I'm always trying to be creative with threats
(By the way, while I acknowledge the similarities between Japan and Zhenshi, Zhenshi doesn't have any nuclear power plants like Fukushima and a meltdown didn't actually happen. What did happen was not caused by any ic reasons as far as my character is concerned.)