Asal Tabakh

Aram Amensukharhem Sekhuraheb Alenithysur Lekhemenra Tabakh (De), \* to 0032, aka Asal, Ealanta, pharmacist/Emergency Medical Technician

Everyone just called him "Asal".

ASAL = Amensukharhem Sekhuraheb Alenithysur Lekhemenra Tabakh

Armia Dinarzaida Senebtisi Tabakh (De), \* to ?, Ealanta, Doctor/chemist, is his older sister.

The humans at Blackrock thought him a god of healing.

Arym Jonakht Ikhetaper Amroth Dassannach, aka "Jon", was his First Counselor

? was his Second Counselor

# -0097

Asal Tabakh (De), pharmacist/Emergency Medical Technician, (the mission president of the expedition), Dinarzaida Senebtisi Tabakh, Huri Ambersin, Medles Ambersin Jaltoris(De) (Huri is Medles’ sister), Armia Jiltaneth Doneva Lyera Marash (De) a chemist, Aram Jalon Omner Boren Marash (De) a chemist, and S'Metarus [house name?] make the first human-engineered alchemical potion that actually works. The potion increases human strength and is successfully tested on Ilyn Mirianakhet Jaltoris aka "Miri" (De), Medles’ wife.

# -0011

*Valkyrie* Destroyed
Mentotians come close to the system. Valkyrie leaves all non-ship combat personnel on the planet and goes off to fight with the Mentotians. Both the Mentotians’ cruiser and Valkyrieare destroyed in the battle. All the Shalok agents are among the Valkyrie’s crew. The badly damaged Keshatria and many of the fighters and small in systems ships survive the battle. Tar Ronal Garan Dragoin leads them in a search of the wreckage, but finds no survivors. 6,000 (?) survivors left on-planet (including Humans and Shalash). None of the surviving ships are capable of reaching another system let alone returning to the Empire.
Midon Sara Glorianna Selket-Athyr is deep in the jungle with a small party including Odwar Asfur Nefesh Karain (De) *Valkyrie*’s life support officer, when the alert is signaled and is unable to get back to a transport in time to join the *Valkyrie*. Isodwar Aram Jas Amenkhare, Sara Glorianna Selket-Athyr’s pilot, is also left since he waits for her to get to him. Upon her return Rockcliff begins making fighters at maximum capacity, it also produces combat robots in vast numbers which are transported to various depots to be in place when the Mentotian invasion begins. The surviving officers cannot be sure that the cruiser was the only Mentotian vessel in the area nor do they know the full extent of its communications abilities. (The cruiser was alone and it was destroyed before making a report.) The *Keshatria* and other small craft are kept on nearly constant patrol for several years.

Wind Hollow Observation Post stripped of all equipment and abandoned. Ismylka Azura Selket-Athyr is forced to return the tech equipment from her laboratory or risk its discovery. Azura relocates her daughter Cynthia Selket-Athyr, and her banderlash to a magically protected cottage west of the Yasmin Sea.
Rymmon appears to Asal to inform him that the gods had not abandoned them. Asal receives confirmation that Rymmon is who He says He is. Three months later Rymmon appears again, but this time Asal is with his two counselors, Aram Jon Dassannach (De) and Khris Boggarth. Rymmon tells them they will be staying on Dyon for a long time.

# 0001

Tar Arkan Roland Duryn’s hand is crushed by an Onakym-thrown boulder. Asal tries to use magic to repair it, but Duryn is naturally resistant to magic and all attempts fail. He contacts Talog Elbrath Akhemen back at the Main Base, who makes him a new Dyotian Steel hand controlled by the original nerves. It is deliberately made to look like a decorative but non-functional hand, but is actually a marvel of cybernetic engineering.
About the same time Talog Elbrath Akhemen finishes the steel hand, an epidemic of Swamp Fever races throughout Chisholm, and Merdrek Hornun falls sick. Midon Arym Gamelial Selket quarantines the colonies—anyone who leaves the Main Base may not return and only the robot pilots can bring the transports back to be decontaminated. Asalcontacts Medles Jaltoris (also located back in the tech Main Base) and requests his help. Midon Arym Gamelial Selket warns Medles Jaltoris that if he leaves to help, he won’t be allowed back. Medles goes anyway, taking Elbrath’s “iron hand” with him. Tral Nisrin Risha Galbraith, one of Talog Elbrath Akhemen’s assistants, goes with Medles to aid him in attaching the “iron hand”. Merdrek Hornun dies despite Medles’ and Asal’s intensive efforts to save him. One third of the Ealanta die. The former slaves suffer nearly the same losses. The shalash marines do not catch the disease nor do the people at Wind Hollow.

# 0012

Arym Ganwulf Selket-Athyr (De) son of Ismylka Azura Selket-Athyr and Ismelek Niconius Ketherian Selket-Athyr born at Chisholm. Asal delivers the baby. Sara "Moira" Vasyrand Drusilla show up not so unexpectedly to “help”. Maribet Valera Seldon (De) is sent from the Main Base by her parents to help Niconius Ketherian Selket-Athyr keep up with the input of data for the Neko Files.

# 0023

The glish, who really like Soveth’s tactics of germ warfare, infect more refugees, who then released north and are found by Blackrock scouts and taken back to Blackrock. Disease kills over half the people of Blackrock. Most of the dead are women. King Dukhan fears for his people’s survival and forbids all women from going on any more raids and insists on a quarantine period for any future refugees, but his efforts don’t really make any difference since nearly the entire population is too sick to go hunting and go on raids. Storms had closed the passes so that no one could even leave. Desperate to save his people, King Dukhan goes to the ancient stone circle and prays all day for aid to any power that will listen. Shabratra kidnaps Asal (who was working on the plans for a new hospital in Chisholm) and takes him to Blackrock still holding his drafting compass.
Asal determines the this is a variation on the Swamp Fever they had 20 years ago, and uses his headpiece to send for medicines, but instructs them to avoid these barbarians at all costs since he doesn’t know if the variation is contagious to his people. He alone tends to the sick and meanwhile teaches the people of Blackrock the basics of hygiene and sanitation systems. It’s not very long at all before Asal is revered as a god by all the people of Blackrock.

# 0024

King Dukhan plans a Kar Lacha raid again (his scouts having reported that Kar Lacha is expanding, therefore slave labor was needed) using the same warriors as the year before, but is shouted down by the majority who insist on a larger expedition. Nearly half the population of Blackrock goes on the raid, but they are defeated with heavy losses by the glishgarrison. Meri is left in charge of those who did not go. The survivors are then hit by the Black Turtle H'Ronedar led by Midan Sstrelithys (glish). Only the toughest warriors survive to make it back to the ring of stones north of Kar Lacha set as a rally point. Knowing that Midan Sstrelithys will attack at first light, King Dukhan again asks for any aid he can get. He and his men awake in the morning within the ring of stones at Blackrock. Shabratra opened the gate that transported them back to Blackrock, but Asal is given credit for their miraculous rescue, much to Shabratra’s annoyance.
King Dukhan sends a small group led by his friend, Sharpspear to look for additional sites where food can be produced.
Shabratra still trying to help guides Sharpspear with mental suggestions he mistakes for his own thoughts. She also prepares a site. She brings in hundreds of Glowjewels, diverts some of the watercourses so the caves will still have running water, but not flood and relocates the dangerous wildlife that lived in some of the caves. The group finally finds a high valley carved from the surrounding towering granite cliffs by numerous mountain streams. Near the south side of the valley is a very large white stone. They name the site "Whiterock". Sharpspear's son, Bearslayer and most of the party stay behind to set up a camp while Sharpspear and a dozen men head back to Blackrock, but are ambushed by an Onakymstarted avalanche and perish. {Note: Morgulzahn the Black asked by the glish to harass their rebellious slaves plants the idea in the minds of the Onakym that Sharpspear is a threat.} Bearslayer (while hunting bears) discovers an extensive cave system carved out by the many streams that cut through the area. The party relocates to the caves and begins improving them. Odwar Sara Sylvanthia Merietamun Takhat Iset Nebettawi Tuya Bintanath Ratibor the copilot on the *Katy* spots the smoke from their fires while flying over The Land of Ice. She reports the site back to Main Base.

The Ealanta send a team to Blackrock (led by Councilor Marat Sanakht with Odwar Shyz Piankum (ee) and a security team) and give King Dukhan the sword "Lannairyng". King Dukhan gives Marat, his ward, Miri, to wed.
Istral Nefertiri Tosrek (De), one of the contact team sent to Blackrock, falls in love with and marries King Dukhan the ruler of Blackrock. She stays on as liaison. Asal leaves one of the Leugan crystals with her. King Dukhan tasks his friend Konner Coldstream and Konner's wife Miri Coldstream to act as guides and guards for his new queen.
King Dukhan becomes worried when Sharpspear's party fails to report, but is distracted by the arrival of these strangers.
Councilor Marat Sanakht's team of Ealanta (minus Istral Nefertiri Tosrek) land at Whiterock and leave Asal and a security guard to give Bearslayer's party a hand for a week. Asalon his next visit to Blackrock privately reports his findings at Whiterock to King Dukhan.
King Dukhan having no house name of his own, takes the name Tosrek.

# 0025

*Book of S'Metarus* by S'Metarus published.
Istral Queen Nefertiri Tosrek arranges for women to be transferred to Blackrock from the overcrowded settlements.
Appalled by the extremely high infant mortality rate in Blackrock, Istral Queen Nefertiri Tosrek arranges for Asal to come to Blackrock and help her train the settlement’s midwives. Asal brings a copy of the *Book of S'Metarus* for Blackrock. He also brings Ilyn Mirianakhet Jaltoris aka "Miri" the wife of Medles Jaltoris from the Main Base who has more experience with babies than he does. Their efforts save many infants that would have died. Once the crisis is over Miri joins her husband at Chisholm.

A young orphan named Teri (Teri Sulchair) follows Asal constantly and he calls her his cheerful young assistant, earning the young orphan the house name of Sulchair which is imperial for cheerful.
21/10 Prince Dukhayn Tosrek (De) son of Istral Queen Nefertiri Tosrek and King Dukhan Tosrek born at Blackrock.

# 0027

*Handbook of Asal* by Medles Jaltoris published.

# 0029

Odwar Arym Jalen Krystan Athor Orr is back in Nimrodale Security by Tar Skara Valerian Balder's request. He is given command of a security squad that accompanies Asal to Blackrock to check on the health of the infant Princess Tjanefer Tosrek and see if Tar Balder's former NCO, Istral Queen Nefertiri Tosrek, needs anything. Tar Balder is concerned by rumors of unrest at Blackrock. Asal finds the infant princess and the queen in good health. Jalen finds that the unrest is due to stories about monster bears who disapprove of the king's choice of queens, but no one at Blackrock takes it seriously. Jalen wants to leave at least part of his security squad to increase the protection for the queen, but she insists she does not need them, in fact she sends two shield maidens, Strikes Swiftly Blackstone and Bright Eyes, back with him to cross train with Tar Balder's unit.
Odwar Arym Jalen Krystan Athor Orr and Bright Eyes are attached to Tar Khris Boggarth team that is about to begin making magical weaponry again. Jalen is replacing "Moira" Vasyr who was sent to the College of Magical Arts at Wind Hollow in 0027.
Tar Khris Boggarth with the help of Ismalaka Azura Selket-Athyr, Sara Cynthia Selket-Athyr, Jon Dassannach, Odwar Arym Jalen Krystan Athor Orr and Bright Eyes forge additional copies of the sword Demonbane.
Bright Eyes quickly decides that Tar Khris Boggarth is a bit more than merely a security officer and the more she learns about him the more she likes him. She asks Azura for help when she realizes she is in love with him. By the time the first blade is finished she believes that he loves her back. Confronted by Azura and Bright Eyes, Khris says he cannot marry anyone. Undaunted, Azura turns to her husband, Ismelek Niconius Ketherian Selket-Athyr for help. Unfortunately for Bright Eyes, he agrees that "Tar Khris Boggarth" cannot marry her, but sees no reason why he cannot marry her under his true identity. Jon Dassannach, Khris' brother, agrees and sends for Asal, who also agrees, that Bright Eyes can legally marry him if he uses his true identity, but that since maintaining his cover is important, the marriage must take place secretly. Niconius points out that she could take his House name if Arym Jonakht Ikhetaper Amroth Dassannach agrees. This would preserve their House name and keep "Tar Khris Boggarth" out of it publicly.
25/04 Bright Eyes is renamed, Sara "Jennefer Asenath Arienya Sisely Imneferet" by the emperor, leaving out any House name, since she will take her husband's.
Asal marries Kroman Midon Arym Khriseptah Syn Amroth to Sara Jennefer Asenath Arienya Sisely Imneferet Amroth with Arym Jonakht Ikhetaper Amroth Dassannach and Odwar Arym Jalen Krystan Athor Orr as official witnesses and attended only by Azura, Niconius and Cynthia Selket-Athyr.
26/04 In the morning Azura orders Odwar Arym Jalen Krystan Athor Orr to escort Sara Jennefer Asenath Arienya Sisely Imneferet Amroth to Wind Hollow where they are to join Oberon. The Demonbane project will relocate to Wind Hollow in a few weeks. A security guard is required for a prince and princess, so Azura arranges for Tar Khris Boggarth to command it.

# 0031

Arym Miles Jason Derek Amroth Siderian (De), son of Sara Jennefer Asenath Arienya Sisely Imneferet Amroth (ee), and Kroman Midon Arym Khriseptah Syn Amroth (De) born in Nimrodale. Asal confirms the child is the biological son of one the Empire's most famous Fleet Admirals.

# 0032

Konner Coldstream and his wife, Miri Coldstream, Queen Nefertiri Tosrek's guards, are found slain by what appears to be an Onakym ambush.
Asal and Istral Queen Nefertiri Tosrek are murdered in Blackrock by nine of the Bearshirts who think she is going to have Jorna Faotail executed. For his part in it, Lib Koriantumyr Blackstone becomes one of The Black Guard. [Scott: there is more to this.] Koriantumyr Sarmat Renjeb (De) and his sister, Wendi Moraket Jannis Sarmat (De) are sent by the Mylan Council to investigate.
Princess Tjanefer Tosrek is taken to Ismylka Azura Selket-Athyr in Nimrodale for safety.
The Emperor, Ismelek Niconius Ketherian Selket-Athyr orders the formation of The Night Guard to protect Ismylka Azura Selket-Athyr. Tar Hans Norbert Halder Konrath is its first commander. King Dukhan Tosrek, ruler of Blackrock sends two of his warriors, Duncan Coldstream and Mari Coldstream to join The Night Guard.
Teri Sulchair appropriates the Blackrock copy of *Book of S'Metarus* and continues Asal's work of teaching medical skills at Blackrock.