Vazir Kazamakhran

Farmandar Vazir Kazamakhran (628 - 689) was the second ruler of the independent Farmandrate of Kath and the head of House Kazamakhran during the mid- to late-7th Century.
== History ==
Vazir was the second son of Farmandar Ashur of Rayneh. In the Parsanian fashion, he was schooled to be a martial master, while his older brother was taught in the ways of administration and rulership. It was expected that, once their father died, Vazir would support his older brother's rule and assist in times of war.
In 651, though, Vazir's older brother died falling from his horse - this put Vazir in the position of inheritor. He disapproved vocally of his father's decision to cower in the palace during the Sack of Rayneh in 655, and lost all remaining respect for him when he chose to flee Rayneh in 657 when told of the advancing Legio de Silvestrius. The family abandoned their holdings and took asylum in the city of Karbad.
Farmandur Ashur died of a plague in 658, making Vazir a ruler-in-exile. Having married into House Gukrimar of Karbad, Vazir appropriated his father-in-law's forces to free his homeland. Once this was achieved, he pushed south. He pushed the Legio de Nemus out of Ilahr in 661 during the Second Siege of the Snake's Nest, and was only prevented from pushing further by the pleas of his father's friend, the Farmandar of Rustif, whose lands lay in the way of such a conquest.
Vazir managed to form a triumvirate between himself and the Farmandars of Rustif and Karbad, though this was quickly dismantled when the Farmandar of Karbad became the first Shah of Parsana in 665. The new Shah demanded that his former allies swear fealty, which both declined vigorously.
For most of the rest of his life, Vazir sought allies in the wartorn east and indifferent west to stave off Parsana - once the first Shah died, his successor made his ambitions for Kath clear.. In his later years he grew paranoid, seeing Parsani assassins everywhere. He summoned his armies to stand on the borders fairly regularly, and made life a living hell for his bodyguards.
Vazir was succeeded in 685 by his son Enshah, who quite rightfully pulled his father off the throne. The ex-Farmandar lived out the rest of his years in peace at the palace in Rayneh, dying of old age in 689.
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