Yekkat

Yekkat the Beautiful was the protoplast for all maedi. Called the Radiant and Ever-Youthful, he was said to have skin of burnished bronze, eyes of gold and hair of flowing sunlight. His androgynous face was a perfect, sculpted mask. He dwelt within a temple-palace at Navarao, attended by priest-lords and mage-astronomers. After the Night Wars, he led a sudden and preemptive attack on the heart of Tir Urdun which, lying so close to the burning Plains of Brax, was weak and in disarray. He destroyed Kanlin, the spiritual heart of the dwarves, and threw the Hundred Clans into chaos. As the dwarves squabbled, the maedi seized more of their territory and in several generations had all but destroyed the empire. Zakhema now dominated Altea. Talamon was renamed Vathram, and Yekkat gave its rulership to his greatest general, Chargiz, who founded a semi-autonomous line of kings almost independent from Navarao. Yekkat cared little for politics and retreated into his gigantic palace to commune with the stars. He stirred when Irud slew Sivar, greatest champion of the maedi, and boarded a ‘brass bird with wings of fiery light,’ flying to Asphodel Fields to confront Irud and his followers. There, Yekkat the Beautiful was slain and his forces routed. Akhei-Bel then attempted a desperate ritual in the Brass Tower, but when this failed, the maedi were forced from Vala and Irud became undisputed master of Vathram and ushered in the Age of Man. Banished to the Abyss, the Azlan Maedi diverged into the Voij, Rasna, Fiarra, Sho and Basai.
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