One of these people wrote a poem that calls his lover “throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love.” A fictional one of these people receives a weekly message from the "Office of the Master Dream." While staying overnight in the treasury of one of these people, a character uses a needle to blind himself like an “old master.” An advisor to one of these people commissions a (*) bridge to commemorate the last place he saw his mother after his abduction. Two characters investigate horse nostrils in the treasury of a man with this title. Stork, Butterfly, and Olive are suspected of murder after a man with this title commissions a Venetian-style book from Enishte Effendi. For 10 points, a man with what title rules the empire in which My Name is Red is set? ■END■
ANSWER: Ottoman sultan [or Ottoman emperor; or Ottoman padishah; prompt on sultan or emperor or padishah by asking “of what empire?”] (The second and third sentences refer to The Palace of Dreams and The Bridge on the Drina.)
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