Yupanyaqi

== Overview ==
Yupanyaqi was an ancient, legendary Kunaq Miral (Emperor of Miral) who was noted across the world for his merciless and indiscriminate cruelty towards his subjects towards the end of his reign.
The tale of Kunaq Miral Yupanyaqi was one of irony, which made it relevant in many cultures following his demise. The tale told that during his long reign, Yupanyaqi became paranoid of being forgotten after his death, encouraging him to be as favourable a ruler as possible - and indeed, through heeding the advice of his people and many specially-selected advisors, Yupanyaqi was an extremely accepted ruler, never receiving complaint from his constituents. He kept all people across his vast lands happy, fed, loyal and at peace with one another, all the while demanding extremely little from them in the way of favour and tax. The lands prospered for many years until the ageing Kunaq Miral (meaning roughly 'they who embodies one-hundred-thousand Miralese') dreamt that he was exiled to the shore of a dark, isolated, haunted island, with a dying torch and on a lone canoe tethered to an enormous ship. Once the flame had died out, the tether was cut by demons and Yupanyaqi drifted helplessly into the boggy shore, left to watch in despair as the light of the ship became smaller and dimmer as it sailed away into a thick fog. The nightmare traumatised Yupanyaqi - he interpreted it as his fate if he was to continue on his current path (the island most probably referring to Vatuun Miruq, a Miralese island and symbol of the underworld in their religion), and concluded that acceptable leadership and statesmanship were insufficient for his desired eternity of revelation. Now crazed and obsessed, Yupanyaqi abandoned his aims of earning his people's respect through trust and admiration and instead decided to do so through severity, understanding that if great monuments were to be built in his image, they could not come to be without efficiency - acquired through force. His subjects became his slaves and worked endlessly to build his new monuments. The final years of Yupanyaqi's reign were inundated with famine, plague, unrest and massacre, losing him all favour from Miral, but forever cementing him firmly in world culture. Despite Yupanyaqi's monuments being perhaps unfinished, destroyed or even non-existent, with none ever being truly discovered, they did not need to have ever existed as the Kunaq Miral's cruel deeds ensured an immortality that statues and structures never could - Yupanyaqi would forever live on, remembered for his depravity and betrayal.
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