I'm going to post the following on the basis that I don't beleive Iklahn played Niji, I still cannot directly link an active immortal to a dead mortal on this forum, so you need to read it into it who is who. I also cannot post the dead mortals name as he has been claimed by a mortal. The post itself became a lot less important than the way the rules are being interpreted, but here is the original information posted under the new understanding of rules.
The evidence of this was the timing of Niji's deletion, overlap in play time of Niji and this other claimed mortal:
Niji reduced his play times on our about 7/5, deleting on 7/19. Another character was leveled from 7/3 - 7/19. Niji was deleted within the day of this character heroing, this other character subsequently became the leader of another cabal, clearly having two leaders wasnt going to happen. The exact timing of certain events in the characters life created on or about 7/3 versus deletion would be helpful here, but without the pbf it's a bit up in the air.
Further over those two weeks I do not show the two characters (Niji + another now dead mortal) overlapping, if someone else has a who list with both characters in it, with a verifiable date/time stamp, we could put this to rest. As I now don't believe Iklahn played Niji I'd think that would probably be possible. The logs I have clearly show that one of them logs out, and shortly after the other logs in, but has been connected to CF for longer than his position in the who list would allow for a newly logged on pc. I've sorted about 150 hours of my playtime, and I have hundreds of who lists. I now believe this may be that Iklahn wanted to be on and observing Niji/Empire, not that he was switching between mortal characters. Note that while Iklahn was online, at times so was Niji, it was previously my belief that this as well as the forum posts and immortal comments on PBF were done to intentionally mask the players immortal connection.
My best guess at this time is that Niji was the now gone immortal Imam.
