Tawkanal was a male trinae Tezwan who served in the Assembly as a member of the Gatni party and became Deputy Prime Minister in 2379. Tawkanal had served as Minister of State and thus was third in the line of succession , but when Prime Minister Kinchawn began systematically moving trinae out of power, he was given the new position of minister of the arts - a move that he was still vocally upset with.