Tigraini

Tigraini the Great, of Batta, was a Hunzi general and king who briefly united central Hunziland under his rule. During the last years of his reign, he started to become more and more erratic, until he succumbed under madness. Following his death, a large-scale civil war erupted.
==Early Life==
Not much is reportedly known about Tigraini's early life. He was the son of king Hunzabi of Batta, a relatively large and stable Hunzi kingdom. He first became known during the campaign against the city-state of Ashwadi, where he partook in the pillage with well-known ferocity (see The Sack of Ashwadi).
==Ascension to the throne==
Tigraini arose to the throne by a coup'd'etat followed by a patricide, as well as by massacres of his father's secondary wives and concubines. He was 28 years by that time, and immediately left his mother as regent while taking command of the army.
==Appearance & Character==
Tigraini was, according to Raki ja'Hoshi, a tall and slender man with excellent physique, but with bad skin and eczema on his elbows and fingers. He had strong teeth, eyes which moved seamlessly between intensity and confusion, and a hoarse voice. "When other men spoke, Tigraini's eyes always rested on the fire. But when he spoke, the fire stared into him."
Tigraini was considered very charismatic and a good orator. At the beginning of his reign, he was more loved than feared. At the end of his reign, he was more feared than loved.
Tigraini bore three scars, two from spears and one from a warthog that nearly skewered his left ankle. Despite that injury, he ran as fast as the fastest of his men during charges. He was fearless in battle, and convinced that the spirits of his ancestors protected him, no matter what he did.
==Wars of conquest==
Tigraini immediately set out to conquer the neighbouring kingdoms, and his new standard Hunzi army, forged by his father, proved superior in terms of speed and logistics to the older, tribal-based Hunzi armies. From several formerly prospering kingdoms, Tigraini carved out a large empire, consisting of nearly one third of the settled regions of Hunziland.
==Tigraini's illness and death==
Tigraini had always shown exceptional cruelty, for example during the execution of his own father (which is considered a sacrilege amongst his own people, the Hunzi). During the end of his reign, he suffered from a debilitating headache. The downfall began with the assassination of one of his own sons. He tried to hide that action by burying the teenager, but a hyena smelled the blood and dug up the corpse, leaving it half-eaten before the citadel. That led to a series of very irrational actions, beginning with an edict ordering all hyenas executed, and ending with Tigraini trying to down the stars by arrows. At the end, he started to attack his own subjects in the capital city, ending with the killing of his own mother Bezie Jeleye, before suffering a seizure and being carried in. 
==Mental illness & atrocities==
Tigraini's many erratic and arbitrary actions have made it an open secret that he during his life suffered from some kind of mental illness. Contemporaries believed that he was possessed by the ziti, or "the evil spirits" of Wean and Hunzi folklore. Tigraini succumbed to episodes of depression and moodiness, as well as by episodes of frantic activity.
While cruelty and brutality was not new to Hunzi culture, what was new was the intense sadism which Tigraini used to devote to the destruction of his adversaries. The Sack of Ashwadi was a typical example, where Tigraini's men raped the women in front of the men, before killing the men by burning them alive or have them ripped apart by wild beasts. The murder of his father, Hunzabi, was marked by first the humiliation of the man, that he was forced to witness his son and his son's men rape his concubines, then by the murder of the children in front of the eyes of the old man, and finally by the gradual execution by dismemberment. Tigraini also forced the people of Batta to laugh at Hunzabi's fate.
Tigraini also executed his oldest son, the much beloved Haztaidi, because he feared that Haztaidi (who was eleven at the time) would seek to overthrow his father.
Tigraini often talked about himself in third person, and declared that his aim was to conquer the entire world, and then continue by "conquering the sun, the moon and all the stars of heaven".
==Legacy==
Tigraini is considered a military innovator, though he largely inherited his army from his father. Hunzabi had reformed the Battan army, replacing the tribal and clan-based armies of Batta with a professional army composed of Hejturi, bands of 49 men led by a hejtu, or captain. 7 hejturi became one Soomabvi, and 7 Soomabvi became one Rylgadi, or "host". For the first time, specific archer units were included as well.
Tigraini was a skilled tactician, and won every singulary military encounter. He was however considered poorly as a diplomat and a ruler, and he never introduced any reforms that could keep his empire together after his death.
Tigraini's atrocities are not well-remembered. His army won ill reputation from constant engagements in rape, murder, mutilations, and often total annihilation of clans or tribes that opposed him. Several towns and cities were destroyed or depopulated during his reign.
He might be responsible for between 30.000 and 50.000 deaths, including his father, his mother, a half-dozen of his siblings, twenty nephews and nieces and at least one of his own children.
Preceded by	Reigned 	Succeeded by
Hunzabi 	16 years, 7 months, 11 days	Kwatzi
==Issue==
By Shemie Xubele	
Lazie (Princess)  * 21 Hunzabi	
Haztaidi (Prince)
* 23 Hunzabi - + 5 Tigraini (Executed) 	
Bezinie  (Princess)
* 24 Hunzabi	
Zimat (Princess)
* 1 Tigraini
By Nekube 	
unnamed daughter (+)  * 29 Hunzabi - + 29 Hunzabi	
Kwatzi (Prince)
*5 Tigraini 	
Zamyre (Princess) * 8 Tigraini	
By Nujafe 	
Same (Princess)
* 1 Tigraini - + 16 Tigraini (Executed by Nekube)	Bazyrie (Princess) * 4 Tigraini - +16 Tigraini (Executed by Nekube)		
By Rynjere 	
Khefra
(Prince)
* 2 Tigraini - +14 Tigraini	
Hunzane (Princess)
* 5 Tigraini - 	
Jafa (Prince)
*7 Tigraini	unnamed son * 11 Tigraini - + 11 Tigraini
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