Sketch from December 2022.

Anfa was the Emperor of Ijeng from 229 to 266. He is the father of Emperor Ham'im, and the grandfather of Prince Sikra from my webcomic, the Satyrica Andromedae. In contrast to his two predecessors, Anfa was a conservative ruler who upheld agrarianism and opposed the development of industry and a working class in Ijeng. The Ijeng peasantry had grown scared of the rapid changes instituted by the two previous emperors, and the landowning and noble classes had come to despise the threat that the central dynasty posed, so Anfa's conservatism, and warm demeanor, were welcome contrasts to them.

Yet curiously, in one aspect of his life, he moved closer to the demands of Ijeng's small but growing reformist class: he took only one wife and remained loyal to her; he did not take multiple wives or have affairs with slaves. This tradition has been upheld by Ham'im. In keeping with fashion among the noble class, Anfa's wife, It'ai, was an Ijeng noblewoman of foreign (Datun) ethnicity. They had three children: Ham'im, a daughter named Rim'il (Ham'im's twin, now deceased), and Watji. After the Ijeng political crisis that begins in Chapter 4 of the Satyrica Andromedae, the pair's two living sons are now recognized as Emperor separately by the galaxy's two main polities.

Anfa became Emperor at the age of 1 upon his father's abdication; his uncle served as regent until Anfa reached manhood at 17. During Anfa's reign, he became famous for traveling throughout the Ijeng archipelago and meeting the peasantry and nobles in nearly every corner. Anfa was not formally considered a god by most cults of the Ijeng religion, but much of the populace ascribed miracles to him and saw him as a divine being. Whenever he arrived at a peasant village, the entire population would clamor for him to touch their forehead and spare them from illness or evil spirits. Many villages today have altars or even idols for him.

Anfa had a number of health problems exacerbated by an unhealthy diet, counterproductive effects of traditional Ijeng medicine, and a strenuous travel schedule. He rejected modern medicine– though with it, it is likely he would still be alive in the time of the Satyrica Andromedae. At the age of 38, he went out for a chariot ride in the royal family's meadow lands outside the royal capital; he suffered a heart attack and died before the chariot could return to the palace. His son, Ham'im, who was 17 at the time, became Emperor immediately. As Ham'im spent much of his formative years with Anfa away traveling, his personal and political development was unusually independent, and he quickly assumed the reformist line of Anfa's predecessors.