Palandine

Palandine was a female Cardassian who was a student at the Bamarren Institute for State Intelligence where she was given the designation One Kentay. She met Elim Garak in the pit after training, where defying the institutes rules shared her real name and persuaded Garak to do likewise. She encouraged Garak to enjoy himself to get through the pains of homesickness and physical torment of the institute. Palandine and Garak became good friends and often spent time together in further defrence to the rules, they talked of politics and family and she introduced him to poetry, inparticular the works of Maran Bry. However behind her genuine affection she was using Garak to help in her betroved Barken Lokar and her own rise to power within the institute and uses Garak’s skills to take Barken to vicotory in the institutes mock battle competition cementing his place in power. From then on her friendship with Garak deteriated before he finally left the institute at the end of his first level. (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)