Enabran Tain

Enabrin Tain was a male Cardassian, he lived in a lavish home with his son Elim Garak and Garak’s assumed parents Mila and Tolan in the Paldar Sector of Cardassia City. During Garak’s schooling he kept a close eye on Garak’s results and punished him for failures.

He removed Garak from the Bamarren Institute for State Intelligence prematurely much to the frustration of the first prefect so that Garak could begin his work in the Obsidian Order post haste. Tain had Garak assassinate his arch-nemesis Proconsul Merrok and Garak became one of Tain’s most trusted and dependable operative until he defied Tain’s instruction to desist in an illicit relationship with a woman named Palandine. Shortly after Tain retired as head of the Obsidian Order holding the distinction of being the only head of the Order to survive long enough to give up the job. (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)

Tain retired to the Arawak Colony in the moutainous Rogarin Province with Mila where he lived out his life until 2371 when he was involved with a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar effort to wipe out the Founders homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant. The plan was compromised by a Changeling infiltrator and the entire fleet including the Romulan Warbird Tain was on was destroyed (DS9 episodes: Improbable Cause and The Die Is Cast). Tain was presumed dead but was in fact captured by the Dominion and detained at Internment Camp 371. In 2373 Tain managed to contact Garak and the two reconciled before Tains death (DS9 episode: In Purgatory's Shadow)