Kashánitsá

Kashánitsá (born around 8.36 / 261 ABV) is a Scorched warrior who through coup and deceit has taken over the Scorched state of Jha'khyla, in the year 303 ABV, bordering the "Wetlands". 
== Early Life ==
Kashánitsá comes from the clan Réssjethr, a semi-nomadic group of camel herders and hired swords who originally migrated from north of the Mír Valley to the Red Mountains. Reportedly, Kashánitsá's father, an outcast from his clan, could not feed his many sons, and forced them to run around in the salt flats with their noses and mouths filled with salt, until they collapsed. Those who collapsed first of his sons, he slit the throat of. 
Kashánitsá began his career fighting against Sh'varaith as a hired spear, and became a commander of men around 283 ABV. 
== Accession to power in Jha'khyla, and war against Herer ==
An even more contrived casus belli is offered by the ruler of Jha'khyla, Kashánitsá. 
Kashánitsá was employed by the Elder Assembly of the mountains to oversee the slaves used in the mines, in Jh'era 2, 88. However, he was dismissed 
because of alleged thefts of tin. Thus, he assembled a hundred renegades
 and Cursed from the wastelands, and engaged the slaves in a true rebellion under the pretense of a false name. Then he was reinstated by the 
council to solve the issue, for the small price of his successor's and 
rival's head. Well inside the auditorium, a huge open amphitheatre under the stars, he ordered his renegades to attack the assembled elders with
arrows. Blaming the massacre on the slaves, he had the bones of the elders crushed, and even broke a finger on his left hand to appear as if he had been wounded. Then he proclaimed himself the ruler of Jha'khyla and rode out to kill the rebelling slaves, which he also did by cunning and very much bravery. He pretended to have been abandoned by his men, 
had covered himself with a slave's blood and had broken the leg of his 
horse with a stone. Then he was laying and screaming under the sun, 
until the slaves came to kill him with stones. Seeing that he was the 
man who had compelled them to rebel, they laid down their weaponry, and 
were promptly surrounded by his horse archers.
So did Kashánitsá. become the ruler of Jha'khyla. A poet had however seen the massacre 
unfold, and in the dark, the unknown artist made a poem called "The Poem
 of Kashánitsá.
Kash, kash, a gash for our age
Heart ripped out of chest, tears of blood
Stars coldly witnessing betrayal of trust
By the arrow's pointing tasting flesh so fresh
Oh a lament to those
Who their bones had crushed
To blame on the wretched
Kash, kash, keep your shadow shaded
You will walk for ever in the rays of the sun''
Kashánitsá
 became enraged, and then made a call to all poets of the city to meet 
him in the square of the city. Unlike desert cities, Jha'khyla is built 
in the mountains, partially carved out of a mountain slope. The 
auditorium is an open building at the top, and a road winds down like a 
spiral. The road is built by stones while the buildings are carved out 
of the mountain, each containing three to four flours. The outer 
buildings are actually made out of imported wood, and Jha'khyla is the 
only Burned city with wooden buildings, all extensively decorated and 
white, as they let the wood turn into bone colour before the sun before 
applying it. Over 600 of the city's 800 poets arrived to take part in a 
contest to celebrate the crushing of the slave rebellion. Kashánitsá did
 however surround the auditorium with archers, and then proceeded to 
take up a female poet named Lyrín, and had her tongue cut out and her 
fingers removed at the first joint. He also disfigured her by cutting 
off her lips. Then he started to nail her naked to a cross, and put her 
up over the auditorium.
So did he do with all 600 poets. He 
waited for three days before they were checked, and seventeen had 
survived. He then cut them down, and forced them to live at the bottom 
of the city, and gave them an order to live as beggars. But as people 
felt sorry for them and gave them alms, he had them killed and thrown to
 be eaten by mountain eagles.
So was Kashánitsá's justice. 
He
 decided to invade Herer, because the Hereri people was short and stocky
 and had broad faces, all mean with thick beards. Kashánitsá declared 
before the auditorium that the laws of the world stated that short 
peoples were less worth and natural slaves of tall peoples, and the 
tallest of the people were the people of Jha'khyla. The following day, 
he sent 5000 men against the Hereri, who were a jolly, primitive people 
who enjoyed drinking beer, lived in wooden cottages and whose chieftains
 had ritual coitus with horses.
The Hereri forces were somewhat 
larger than the Jha'khylan troops, but Kashánitsá's army was more 
well-trained and under central command. The Hereris were beaten and all
 of Herer fell to Jha'khyla, and he took 13.000 Hereris as slaves.
Category:Scorched people
Category:Heads of state
Category:Tyrants