Aledin Suleiman

Aledin Suleiman is the Sultan of Mersin, a Chorenese sultanate situated on the Magnian Horn. He is the only ruler to emerge from the Sultanate of Chorene who is not part of the royal family of Yazi. Suleiman is known to be mistrustful, bordering on paranoid.
His father Halay was vizier of Gierdyr. Before he died in 1414, he chose Aledin's elder brother Emrick as heir apparent to his lands, while Aledin was made the Khan of Haddim instead. However, after his brother was assassinated two years later, he succeeded his brother. 
== Appearance ==
Aledin has a long coily beard in shades of black and gray, a prominent curved nose and thick black eyebrows, with an almost permanent expression of displeasure. He often wears a gold-embroidered red or purple turban.
== The Dissolution War ==
After the Coup on Orak, Ibrahim Yazi marched home to his seat in the Karaman Vizirate, but found the city of Mersin occupied by Aledin, who had declared himself sultan.
Ibrahim marched on Suleiman-controlled Rumez and Karama, winning both towns. In the meantime, his sister, Mura, came to the region with her forces and met with Ibrahim, who accepted her suzerainty. Their forces joined 60.000-strong, the siblings marched on Mersin and Ezurum in 1430 and besieged Suleiman’s garrisons there.
Although the siblings succeeded in capturing Ezurum, they had taken heavy casualties and Aledin secretly wrote a letter to a demoralized Ibrahim wherein he promised, that if he would acknowledge Aledin as the sultan of all of Chorene, he would make Ibrahim the provincial ruler of the Magnian Horn. Ibrahim switched sides, but Aledin murdered him at their first meeting, then settled down in Mersin for the winter until Mura died of the flu, allowing Aledin to consolidate his rule uncontested.
== Reign ==
Aledin immediately removed the Higuras, who had tried to oppose him during the war, from their seat in Ezurum and tightened his control of the important naval city. Then, he sent envoys to Boyazi to forge an alliance with the Vizier of Kilis, Osger Akahn. As the great grandson of Krushaw Khan, the Akahns had a century of bad blood with the Yazis, harkening back to the Olive Wars. Suleiman offered to protect his claim to Kilis from Mustafaya Yazi if Osger swore fealty to him. He agreed and together they established an iron tight grip of Karaman Bay. 
Aledin was already allied to the Kalays of the Konaya Vizirate through marriage, so had no need to subdue them, and not long after his instatement, the vizier of Benghol arrived in Mersin to pay him tribute. Aledin then ruled unopposed. 
However, the surviving members of the Yazi family were not happy to see a usurper in control of their rightful land. Ana Yazi of Anatoly makes constant naval attacks along the Mersinid coast to harass the sultan and as soon as Mustafaya Yazi of Arana brokered a frail ceasefire with her brother in the north, she began a still-ongoing customs war with Aledin to weaken his grip on the invaluable Ghorkon River. 
== Family ==
In 1404, Aledin married Balina Kalay as part of a marriage alliance between his father and Gavazzi Kalay. At the time, Aledin was merely a khan of Haddim, so Gavazzi only offered up her ninth daughter. Even so, the two are said to have developed quite a strong love for each other. They had 7 children together: 5 sons and 2 daughters. They are:
# Otto, Khan of Haddim. Male, b. 24 December 1405 (aged 26).
# Orman, Khan of Niqaya. Male, b. 1 November 1406 (aged 27).
# Corban. Male, b. 13 May 1409 (aged 22).
# Fatima. Female, b. 3 June 1411 (aged 20).
# Aleyy. Male, b. 28 March 1412 (aged 19).
# Kureiya. Female, b. 8 March 1420 (aged 11).
# Pashaw. Male, b. 13 May 1421 (aged 10).
In 1423, Balina was slain by an elven gorilla force while traveling alone with her retinue. Three years later, Aledin married again, this time the second eldest daughter of Gavazzi, but rumour has it the two have never shared a bed.