Káshtjenjir

Iss'sjyrín Nen-Sh'travka, also known as Káshtjenjir, was a prominent officer in the Azure Army who rose to fame after couping the corrupt theocratic government and re-establishing the military democratic system employed during the early history of the Vht'shjenjé .
According to official chronicles, some 700 years after the Shjevtyrín rose to power she disappeared from the political stage for unknown reasons. In her wake, a conspiratorical faction known as the Ikhjetsjirenites couped the government and established a puppet who they claimed to be the true Shjevtyrín. The conservative Ikhjeshírenites quickly began to issue a number of draconic decrees through the use of their puppet, the most controversial of these was the prohibition of poetic invention, claiming that the only poetry ever to be uttered among the Vht'shjenjé had already been written by ancient masters. 
Being in the middle of the Thousand-Year War , the Azure Army was largely bogged down in the south fighting the Mósharenja and were unable to respond to it (some claim that many of the conservative officers in the army were indeed Ikhjeshírenites themselves), leaving the capital under their control. At this time, Iss'sjyrín was a general of low status, commanding the relatively obscure ninth army. With about 1000 men under her command, she fought her way into the capital and hunted down the conspirators. Bitter street fighting followed, but eventually her troops made it all the way to the Shjevtyrín's palace whereupon the impostor committed suicide and Iss'sjyrín had almost the entire court - more than one thousand people - executed. Their bodies were burnt and a new court was quickly established from poets loyal to the true Shjevtyrín.
Fearing that influential factions would attempt to install puppets again, Iss'sjyrín stripped the Shjevtyrín's court of all its political power and transferred it entirely to the Council, effectively restoring the ancient martial democratic system that the first Vht'shjenjé lived under. However, she always made sure the Council was dominated by her own loyal followers, making her the de-facto leader of the entire Vht'shjenjé civilisation. She became known as Káshtjenjir, or "The lady in the amaranth robe", as she ceased to wear the military uniform and put on a simple civilian dress during her inofficial reign, claiming that political power was entirely within the Council.
She also established the Ihtsikhá as a secret army that stayed out of the political intrigue plaguing the Azure Army. The Ihtsikhá was to become an extreme elite force infamous for ruthless and stealthy tactics and her second son, Vírenjasht Nen-Ashtvájir, would became their first supreme commander. The military democracy that she had established would prove unstable and frequent coups and counter-coups between the military and civil branches of society occurred generations after the Káshtjenjir passed away. However, her dictatorial reign saw a brief time of stability and prosperity, and most famously the Grand Avenue of Varvardnársh began to be built during her career. 
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