Shjevtyrín

Shjevtyrín, born by those bearing the lineage name Vshtjávr, is the supreme spiritual leader of the Vht'shjenjé and also many other tribes in the Iron Desert. She was born over a thousand years ago in a nomadic family, when the Vht'shjenjé civilisation was still young. Despite being a child, barely ten years old, she rose to become the most exalted figure among the tribes, as she possessed the supernatural ability to recall memories from previous reincarnations, an ability believed to be latent in everyone of the Scorched bloodline but no-one has successfully mastered that craft in millennia.
Shjevtyrín was the youngest person ever to become a fully-fledged poet, the spiritual and cultural elite of the Shadowborn, and even the elders of her caste listened to the wisdom in her prophetic visions. She was such an important figure even wars were fought over her, and she was in fact kidnapped not long after her twelveth birthday. Believed to be lost, she had survived on her own for years out in the desert and came back to Varvardnársh as an adult woman. Her black hair had turned white and her eyes had been blinded from the sharp red crystallic sands and sun that ravages the Iron Desert, but she was reinstated as the spiritual leader of the Vht'shjenjé. 
During the Battle of Varvardnársh, the Shjevtyrín's palace was the main target by the invasion force led by the black-blooded general Arthtyrín, and the battle culminated in Arthyrín's death on the very steps of the palace while the rest of the city burned. In this period of strife and civil war, there were also other women claiming to be the true Shjevtyrín, in particular the one who was impaled to her throne with a spear and raped to death by the mercenary captain Shai'jernan, whose name has since forever been tainted and it is believed that he still wanders the Iron Desert as a tortured ghost as punishment for his crime.
By the end of the Thousand-Year War, the Shjevtyrín secured her position as the supreme head of state in the Vht'shjenjé and those few who question her exalted position are shrewd enough to keep quiet. She lived a secluded life in her palace, rarely seen by her subjects, although she does have a tendency to appear in public in grave times. She is blind and wears a veil over her face and is carried whenever she leaves the palace. Her white hair is long enough to touch the floor and she dresses in magnificient white robes that seem to glow with an inner pure light.
She is believed to be around 1500 years old by now.
==Other theories==
It is speculated by Syannic historians that the Shjevtyrín is a religious-theological head of state that is constantly seen as reincarnated by the Vht'shjenjé.
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