Lotan The Ahmirite Usurper

### Relatives

Thresh (father), Jecoliah (mother and sister to King Haza and daughter of Chief Reuben), Ezra (father of Thresh and brother of Chief Reuben and son of Chief Jazer)

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Province Kingdom of Ahmir Under The Empire of Atrya

## Early Life Under The Tribe of Ahmir:

Lotan was first mentioned in **The Book of The Royal Hazan Family Tree** when King Haza had a copy of their family tree written to keep track of their lineage. Prior to this after King Haza had moved out of the tribe back when he was yet to be a king and when he had also yet to begat children, Haza had a younger sister named Jecoliah, the daughter of Chief Reuben but back before Chief Jazer had yet to die but was in of old age, she would go to the well constantly across the river into the Pirate Empire territory when Thresh, the brother of Shimeam, the son of Ezra, the brother of Chief Reuben and the son of Chief Jazer, saw her and bought her with a dowry and she became his wife. she bore her husband a son and they named him Lotan.

Lotan growing up in the desert Lotan helped the tribe make money by trading sheep wool to those who wander in the desert for travel. Then one day as he was a teenager, Chief Jazer died and his son Reuben became the new chief, afterward the tribe migrated to The Kingdom of Haza (which was under the Atryan Empire then) and once they learned that Chief Reuben's long lost son Haza was king there, they rejoiced for they desired a king since the time of Omar's fall, however Lotan grew jealous of his uncle, for he desired that attention and wanted to be the one to bring the tribe into a monarchy again. From then on, Lotan planned to usurp his uncle.

## Life Under The Kingdom of Haza:

During the time of living under the kingdom of Haza he secretly gathered his own followers convincing them to follow him rather than Haza, but to keep it a secret for now and pretend to see Haza as their king for now so that he would not suspect anything.

## Life Under The Kingdom of Ahmir:

Lotan also gathered more followers during this time, and Chief Reuben later on died, along with his wife and some of Lotan's uncles during the war with Muriel. The war started because of Prince Menachem's and Princess Ashmua's forbidden relationship, and the result of the conflict gave reason for Lotan and his followers to rebel but not make a move yet.

## The Ahmir Coup:

After these things Lotan was in his thirdies by this point and Prince Nahum the son of King Haza was selected as head priest followed by his sons, Prince Elishama was working in the capital of the Eknovian Empire with court related stuff, and Prince Menachem became Prince Regent when King Haza fell ill from a virus but later recovered when Lady Azura came by and told him the cure. After these things came to pass, Lotan made his move with his followers and usurpsed the Ahmirite throne, and slew King Haza and Queen Paloma, along with their royal pet cat also named Menachem.

Lotan then declared himself as the new king of Ahmir and ordered for the remainder of King Haza's seed to be slain, however they escaped to the Eknovian Kingdom Province and while there, Emperor Alyup learned of what had happened and ordered for Lotan to abdicate the throne of Ahmir and face his crimes in court unharmed, however Lotan's heart was hardened and did not hearken unto the Emperor's word and turned down the offer, and so the Eknovian Ahmirite Civil War had began.

## Eknovian Ahmirite Civil War:

Days pass by and a new nation emerged in the floating islands in the heavens known as Thundrakon, ruled by a man named Xavi Thero Patralis, he teamed up with Emperor Alyup of Eknov to lay siege on the city of Haza against Lotan.

The siege of the city was layed out in six sections, the grassy patch on the other side of the western wall, then eastward from then on is the next section, the city itself, then the middle grass patch with trees of the city, then the royal palace garden, then the palace itself, then past on outside of the city wall is the temple, marking it as the sixth and final section of the six sections of the city of Haza.

Both rulers build a fort next to the western wall called **"Fort Ahmir"** They prepare for battle there with their men, and once the battle began both armies place a ladder for them to climb up with, however for awhile their men strugled to climb the wall with Lotan's men constantly hitting them off, so King Xavi of Thundrakon pulled off a big brain move when he dug under the wall through the other side, as they made it into the city through that hole, Lotan's men tried to block them from coming in but they failed and retreated to the second section of the city and both leaders place a pink flag to mark the section claim (it was originally red but turned pink due to the constant rain with flood threats). Lotan's men were more affective with their crossbows and constantly pushed back Eknov and Thundrakon and used the homes of the second section as cover, but in due time they were pushed back further into the third and middle section of the city and they placed another flag in the second section. Lotan and his men used the tree tops for cover in the middle section of the city and slew many of Xavi's and Alyup's men due to their tactical advantages with their crossbows and cover from high up, this did not last long when they destroyed parts of the trees and builded up to them to take down more of Lotan's men, and they yet again retreated into the gate leading into the royal courtyard as the fourth section, and Xavi and Alyup yet again mark claim with their pink flag in the middle section of the city. Both armies eventually break into the royal court yard and slay more of Lotan's followers there and began to lose a lot more men there than before, and they had officially ran out of arrows and their crossbows were deemed useless by this point. They yet again retreat into the royal palace as one of the final standpoints for Lotan and his men, it was at this point where Lotan's men began to lose trust in Lotan questioning themselves of a poor choice of the leader they chose to follow. Yet again Xavi's and Alyup's men broke into the palace and fought and slew many more of Lotan's men mainly fighting in the throne room, the hallways, and the royal balconies. And somehow Lotan and very few of his followers sneak out during the fight and decided to retreat into the temple of Mount Aniah as their last stand and to heal up. Once all of Lotan's men were defeated in the palace, they saw Lotan not, and later found out that he had retreated to the temple on Mount Aniah, and they went and persued him there, but not before Xavi planed a few more pink flags marking their claims successfully taking over the city with the desire of returning it to the rightful royal family of the Hazan Dynasty. Lotan and his men made their last stand in the temple and the Eknovian and the Thundrakonian troops breach the temple and slew the rest of Lotan's men causing damage to the temple property, and yet again Lotan snuck out but alone this time, and climbed up to the temple roof, then after that all of Lotan's followers and soldiers were slain by the sword with bodies around the place.

Xavi and Alyup eventually notice him on the roof with his armor broken with his garment torn and he held an iron shovel as his only weapon left and losing his mind of his failure, refusing to give up. They climbed up there and communed with him, asking him to surrender and no further harm will come to him, to this, Lotan responded with threatning to retreat to Muriel and after he had said that, he fought both rulers on the roof and they wound Lotan further, and then he yields and surrenders himself to both forces, with the Eknovian Ahmirite Civil War finally coming to a close. Then Xavi puts the last giant pink flag on the roof of the temple where it was originally placed on Fort Ahmir earlier on before he took it off and planned to place it originally on the palace (for he thought the palace was going to be the final stand at the time). Afterward that flag remained while the other small section claim pink banners were removed after the battle.

## Lotan's Trial and Death:

Lotan was brought forth to Eknov captive into the Azerconian County for trial. Lotan was brought forth for questioning and he used the excuse that the royal family were corrupted like their ancestors so he had to step in and get rid of them before they lead their kingdom into extinction like Omar. However the Emperor of Eknov with proof showed Lotan that it was illegal to usurp the throne and that he can appoint rulers over each kingdom under his empire whenever he wanted to and pointed out that when he had asked Lotan to step down, he had refused making it illegal, and even pointed out that by threatning to take the royal family's lives that also meant his own wife as well, for his wife Zara, the Empress of Eknov, was the daughter of the late King Haza.

Therefore Lotan was found guilty and was brought into the capital city in Alyop County and was brought forth upon the roof of the National People's Assembly Building looking over all of Eknov's subjects including the royal family (for they hid there as the war happened) and they felt no sympathy for the man who murdered their father and to some, their grandfather. Emperor Alyup of Eknov laid out Lotan's charges and was sentenced to death, and after he had made an end to his speech, he stabbed Lotan in the back and pushed him off of the building falling to the ground in front of the crowd as they cheered for his death, and thus, Lotan's Life had ended.

Now the rest of the acts of the reign of King Lotan, are they not written in **The Book of The Chronicles of The Kingdom of Ahmir**? King Lotan was thirty years old when he usurped the throne from his uncle King Haza and had only reigned for four days, and then died by the hand of Emperor Alyup of Eknov. And the kingdom was given back to King Haza's legitimate son and successor **"Menachem"**, for he reigned in the stead of Lotan.