Soskaril

**Soskaril Sussimi Skaweltar** was a nobleman who ruled over many provinces of the Igarin Empire. His domain was known as Gilwirad or Gilwitar, and his armies were known as Gilwirades.

His death and failure to make each of his sons earn a just portion of his vast wealth resulted in a civil war that weakened the Igarin Empire to various pirates, and later the Konjors and Vozonids.

## History

In life, Soskaril was a cruel and a wasteful lord, enslaving the locals and torturing them for his and his guests' amusement. He was a Kuelgon slave who was recruited by an Igarin lord to rule over his system and kill off the prisoners of war on his planets as a tyrant. His former master admired his wildness, like an uncaged beast burning with rage.

Sometimes he ordered several random people to be tied to posts and burned alive, using their dying screams as background music for his songs. In desperation, the survivors hid from his ever-increasing clone warriors, calling upon the space pirates to save them. In the past, they used to hate the pirates for raiding their towns and abducting slaves, but now they turned to them out of desperation. What was even better for the survivors was that two of the pirate lords were former slaves who rose to greatness, turning their enemies to help their people.

Soskaril found a friend, the sadistic lord Futabol, who ruled the nearby Konjor Supercorporation, his enemy. Knowing this, both lords secretly traded with each other.

Soskaril had three sons: Skundegi, Krellado, and Nörunte. Although he appointed Skundegi as his successor for being the eldest son, his brothers were jealous. He also created a female clone as his "daughter", Tliknuri, and married her to Futabol's clone "son". He sent the newlywed couple away in a secret location, away from the brooding hatred of his sons.

In the year 555 BK, Soskaril died of old age during one of his ritual burnings, collapsing from his podium into a burning altar. It was the day before he was supposed to write his will, but his sons felt that it was time to take away all of his wealth, since there were only clones who served him in his palace. All three princes claimed themselves as the duke of the Somboltar Commandery, and in a fit of rage, they smashed their father's crown and caused the guards to kill each other. Before they were able to murder each other, some of the priests of Faneson dragged two of them out of the palace, so Skundegi inherited the palace.

The other two brothers built their own clone armies to defeat and kill Skundegi. The resulting three-way-war destroyed much of their father's military and undone his successes, allowing the pirates to aid local rebellions. Years later, the Konjor and Vozonid Empires sent fleets to conquer more worlds into their rule, taking advantage of the pirates' lack of unity.

## Warlords

* Rangadra the Dragon Lord - a Resparin pirate captain.
* Sukundor - a human pirate captain. Also, a secret worshipper of Odin.
* Nylkorokdu - a Kuelgon sorcerer. Kept armies of clone slaves and monstrous war-beasts.
* Umadraz - a Resparin pirate captain
* Enkur the Runelord - used the Topalkar Runes.

## Trivia

* Soskaril's middle name, "Sussimi", was inspired by a prompt by a bot on Twitter about absurd and bizarre Five Nights at Freddy's game titles. The author made up this scenario as the prompt read: "War at Sussy's". In a previous post with "Sussy", the author wrote about a business or hotel located near a black hole, also owned by a man known as Sussy. He assumed that "Sussy" was a British name for a gentleman, even though he was aware that it was a meme.
* "Sussy" was derived from a meme from the game Among Us, where players who notice an alien among them call one player "sus".

## See also

* Muntuska
* Lord Futabol