Rakhyrin

Rakhyrín Nen-Tsykhévna was a Vht'shjenjé commander active during the early 8th Khjás. Native to the nomadic Dzykhé clan, her mother was recruited by the Azure Army after having been declared a suitable candidate for officer training and moved to Kth'esjeshé. There, she married her three husbands and altogether had four children, Rakhyrín being the third of them. Rakhyrín, like her two brothers and one sister served their entire lives in the Azure Army, but she was the only one to successfully rise in the ranks to become a commander.
During the Hoshári incident, when the religious leaders of the Hoshár state (current-day Ats'yravan) declared war on Vht'shjenjé for allegedly desecrating ancestral burial ground, Rakhyrín's force of 2500 troops encountered a superior Hoshárite force of 6000 soldiers at the gorge of Hasjatharas. The outnumbered Vht'shjenjé commander managed to locate an underground termite hive, which they subsequently lowered themselves into using long robes and threw down torches to set it ablaze. This incredibly dangerous stratagem nonetheless paid off; the termites surfaced in the tens of thousands, killing almost 3000 enemy troops while no more than 80 Vht'shjenjé troops perished. After this battle, she was awarded supreme commandership of the eastern army and thus became the face of the Azure Army on the Hoshárite front.
By the time she had destroyed the mainstay of the enemy army and she approached the city of Ats'yravan with a peace treaty, she was already venerated and loved by her troops. The great victory was consummated by the commander wandering down alone into the sacred ponds of Ats'yravan to receive the religious water dancer of the city, who formally surrendered to her. Rakhyrín became the governor of the city since, commanding over the military occupation force present in the former Hoshári city.
During her career, it is believed that she funded the poet class to glorify her person, as there are numerous poems and songs dedicated to her; their numbers in fact rival those of the ancestor-saint Nashéniren himself, and comparisons have certainly been made between the two commanders. However, her supposed lack of interest in philosophy and religion ultimately bereived her of the ultimate honour; being canonised into an ancestor-saint.
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