Husojar

Husojar was the second Grand Consul of Raqqos after the Cataclysm, succeeding Grand Consul Badahar in 174 BGE. INCORRECT DATE
Grand Consul Husojar is credited with the institutionalisation of the politics of rational humanism and the introduction of a written and codified system of laws, in place of the old rule founded on divine law (see Antecedents of Raqqosian Law for further details).
He is also credited with the introduction of forced secularism and widespread iconoclasm of symbols relating to the Red Lord and Paramac, responding to the growing public rejection of the god in the face of his perceived abandonment and betrayal. 
He is also thought (though impossible to confirm) to be the model of the statue known as the Sentinel which stands near the harbour.
In the years of the 183rd Olympiad (172-168 BGE), Husojar brutally began to hunt down his political opponents. The conservative monarchists who still hoped for the emperor of Ankh's unlikely survival were cast out of the Consulate. Likewise, those remaining Solar Priests who continued to make sermons and judgements under the old system of divine law were executed in the Courtyard of Earthly Fire where they had once openly made law.
Though by modern eyes he may be seen as being a cruel Consul, many Raqqosian historians judge him as a decisive leader, as well as a product of a harsh and desperate time. Certainly at the time, his rule was popular, made more so by his disruption of the increasingly unpopular old order.
== And a new code of laws was inscribed upon several stone pillars, or stele, and placed around Raqqos. One example of these pillars still survives in the Consular Museum. Thus began the great Raqqosian tradition of firm, egalitarian and precise law- derived from the early codes created by Husojar and his consulate. ==
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