Yvannjir

Yvannjír Nen-Ahtvk'án is a poet and scholar from the Iron Desert , said to herald from the city of Varvardnársh. Unlike most of her people, she has traveled widely across the world and seen many places; indeed, she is arguably among the most well-travelled individuals in the world of the early 4th century ABV.
The Za'ahene poet Ashgerzab-Hati described her as follows:
Pallid skin like the dead but sapphire eyes burning like braziers at night, blackened hair like the Rûkh but soft as Yeharene silk, pink lips whom I desired to caress throughout the long night but were forbidden like the gates of an impenetrable fortress. Speaking of mirth and sexual arousal like a slave bearing your sandals but I never saw her wear them. A doll carved from white bone, crystalline tears like dew, with words filling me like an orgasm. Where did she come from? Who was she? I do not know, but what would I give to see what place produces her ilk! 
==Early travels==
As the people of the Iron Desert are a secretive and isolationist people, very little is known about Yvannjír's background, although she claimed herself to be a poet by profession, a craft held in very high regard by the Scorched. She left the desert to seek adventure and knowledge of the outside world, accompanied by the master assassin Ván. Calamity struck their travels early whilst sailing over the Parelsa and they got separated, but later reunited in Saian where the two of them spent several years, mostly in Talmoä and Nehamoä.
==Yvannjír's ministry in Za'ah==
After Ván saved the Za'ahene ambassador to Talmoä from Vidstossi assassins, the two journeyed to the Radiating Empire of the Devayani in the distant west, being the first of their people to do so. They originally found themselves in the Saiene quarter of the city but was brought to the attention of Jadi after she managed to identify a copy of a  Vht'shjenjé manuscript that somehow had made it across the world to a marketplace in Za'ah. Jadi, being impressed by the exotic woman's knowledge, took her as a guest and subsequently as a teacher. The two spent much time together and it is clear that Jadi's spiritual views have been deeply influenced by Yvannjír's teachings. The two got separated upon the God-Empress Za'fah Eze'leah Yah'jah'wah Devayani's ship of the, where Yvannjír was captured by Vidstossi pirates boarding the ship.
==Tribulations in the Gate Kingdom==
Yvannjír's misfortune had brought her in captivity under the mercy of Haldad , the commander-gone-rogue of the Vidstossi Royal Navy, as she was mistaken for being a Za'hene Mú'zani. It is a chapter of her life she speaks with reluctance and pain, for she had to endure many hardships during this time, and she was forced to become Haldad's lover. She gave him a son whom she named Valsjathen, but ultimately the true father's identity shall never be known. After Haldad was captured and executed, Yvannjír was set free and opened her own establishment in Rodmuthana. The place became infamous among the male population of the city as their wives frequented the tavern but were unwelcome themselves, and much rumour was ado what foul play the foreign woman was doing there. For a time, things seemed good, but the great fire of Rodmuthana destroyed it all. 
Just like the lives of so many others, hers was spared by the intervention of Javalhati, the Rothrinji adventurer, who took her to safety for a time before the Za'ahene commander Az-Shayda took control over the city. Being summoned by Az-Shayda, she instead decided to flee the city, and Ván took her place. The two later perished in mortal combat aboard the Za'ahene commander's burning ship.
==The Journey North==
Accompanied by her son and a group of adventurers from the Kingdom of Rothrän, Yvannjír left the Gate Kingdom and set sail up the rivers to the distant north, passing through the ancient Doryi realms and the untamed great forests of the north where no civilisation is said to exist. 
==Yvannjír's legacy==
Yvannjír managed to become one of the most significant historical figures of the early 3rd century ABV for a number of reasons. She became largely the first Scorched person to ever go beyond the Iron Desert and Saian, introducing her culture through a number of works. She has left behind poetry written in Saiannic, Vidstossi, Rûkh, Aesj, Amrinshtvá as well as her native Vht'shjenjé language. She composed a great epic journal of all her travels, with descriptions of all the lands and peoples she saw, which would be of immense historical significance to later generations. 
Yvannjír is also venerated by Seekers in Za'ah as a result of her teachings to Jadi. She is regarded as a prophetess and many of the Seekers still recite their meditative mantras in the Vht'shjenjé language. 
Category:Sorcerers
Category:Scorched people
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