Kinan Jans

Kinan Jans was the "controller" of Spiral, the artificial reality which served as the headquarters of Dawn, of which they were the leader. They appeared as "a lanky person in a long gray coat, the left side of their head shaved so their blond hair fell on the other". (PROSE: White Canvas)

Biography
Dawn leader Kinan Jans once received a visit from a person claiming to be an Emissary from the Firmament-counterparts, complaining that a rogue Knight of Sky had stolen a powerful artefact from their kind. Kinan dispatched Archimedes Von Ahnerabe and Graelyn Scythes to catch the thief; they did so, only to discover that the Emissary was actually a rogue operator named Auteur who had engineered the whole situation to trick the Original Mammoths into taking all the inhabitants of the 10,000 Dawns, starting with the Firmament and Dawn, out of time and space using the painted warriors. Auteur then took the artefact for herself and used it to turn them all into fiction for seventeen years, during which Graelyn Scythes, who had been reduced to a baby, grew up again in Auteur's Town.

In the movies staring Archimedes that she grew up watching, Dawn appeared as the secretive organisation for which Archimedes worked, with Celeste Roth as his partner instead of Graelyn. Eventually, Graelyn rallied with her friends to defeat Auteur, and managed to reverse everything she'd done. Subsequently, powers from the Dawns, includign Dawn itself, signed the Christmas Needle Agreement with representatives of Auteur's universe to ensure neither would attack the other without warning like this ever again. During the negotiations, Jans was seen talking to a dejected-looking Gideon. (PROSE: White Canvas)

Later, one survivor of Dawn 10000 who'd taken refuge in Spiral asked Jans for special dispensation from the natural utopian qualities of Spiral within the borders of their garden, so that tending to it could be an actual challenge and keep them busy. Jans acquiesced. (PROSE: Sonnenblumen)