Niten, so far, your bio looks to be in excellent form. I'm looking forward to it! Also feeling inadequate now, I may need to go touch up mine.

Meeting Taiki would probably be Viveca using his contacts with Richard Wagner to spring a meeting, but that'd likely be a plot development with either big heavy long term stuff going on, or Viveca getting turned away in a couple seconds.

Shimi would be quite easy, but I'm trying to think of why Viveca would seek her out. ~Removed, was thinking about Ni-ki.~