Essjentír

Essjentír was a slave girl of black-blooded descent who was captured as an infant by the Azure Army and brought back to Varvardnársh . She was selected to become one of the slaves in Shjevtyrín 's court, which can be both a blessing and a curse. A curse in the sense that she would never be free unlike the children of other slaves, but she was also given rare privilegies that others, not even citizens, could dream of. 
Essjentír  was a highly intelligent slave-girl, more highly educated than most citizens, and she quickly became the primus inter pares of the court-slaves and did her service at the side of Shjevtyrín herself. At this time, there was a poet named Ikhjetsjiren who held considerable influence at the court, whom Essjentír held in utter contempt and vowed to herself that he'd never be able to manipulate Shjevtyrín as long as she was still alive. She swayed the Shjevtyrín's attention away from the poet by constantly trying to impress her and giving advice in her affairs. Eventually, she had become so influential that she in effect was the most powerful individual in the whole Shadowborn world. 
However, she is most remembered by the promise that she is said to have made to Shjevtyrín: that if she would be given a thousand days she'd produce the finest poetry the world had ever seen. And from this promise arose two things; the Essjentine script  and the Akhnjajeshtvá . The Essjentine script was not invented by Essjentír herself but rather she ordered that the system of symbols that poets already had used as mnemonics for particularly lengthy poems to be standardised and expanded upon to be able to convey more abstract ideas. A virtual army of poets worked tirelessy to compile the complex system of symbols and by the end of it all, the first writing system in the Iron Desert had come into being. The writing system was first employed in the compilation of the Akhnjajeshtvá, an antology of stories and poems reworked into a single massive epic poem of hundreds of thousands of verses.
Essjentír was murdered before her creations were completed; she was accused of being a Lesbian who had seduced the Shjevtyrín and used black magic upon her, was stabbed with an obsidian blade and thrown down the temple stairs, whereupon the assailant himself committed suicide himself in the same fashion. Because of her two creations though, she was ascended into the status of an ancestor-saint, the only slave to ever be granted that honour, and is now held in veneration by all scholars and literati.
Essjentír also used her script to record a personal journal, which was uncovered many years after her death, where she confessed that she was indeed in love with Shjevtyrín and did it all to win her lover's heart. This journal later became the basis for the novel The Handmaiden  that spread throughout the Shadowborn world and caused immense controversy, where the story of Essjentír and Shjevtyrín was depicted in an erotic fashion. Hundreds of faithful publically mutilated themselves in protest of the sacrilegious novel, but nonetheless it remained popular and there are dozens of copies in circulation.
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