The Master of Algul Siento (Blue Heaven), a former human originally named Paul Prentiss, of Rahway, New Jersey, before circumstances and a long career took him very much further afield. Pimli oversees the Breaker compound with a mix of bureaucratic efficiency, household-manager fussiness about the dignity of his position, and the kind of carefully cultivated ignorance about what his charges are actually accomplishing that the bigger machine he serves prefers in its supervising staff.