Irekiaz

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**İrekiaz** was the first and last Gurkic Khaan who was born in the central steppes south of where the blood haven transitions into slavic alpine. He was a big fan of unifying, in general. He became part of the small group of extremely lucky people who had met the gods in their realms when he met Yslalchiv and had was judged by him.
İrekiaz, even though he is prophet in even vanilla Yslalchiv circles, he is remembered in the mythology of most nations from muhsruls to Bangyurkans as single minded

## Life

### important portal time

İrekiaz spent years of his life as a guard to the small band of mappers and information seekers his tribe set out. the greatest find of this exploration crew, would also be their last .

This final adventure was up around above Nizaoyl on the cold icy coasts they walked past ancient ruins and icebergs on the coast, the Ysluvians who inhabited that area stood and watched over the explorers, as time went on starvation grew in the crew, coming from the plains they had no idea that they could eat the sea cabbages almost 2 meters from them in the water. One of the explorers caught another unexpected and bashed his scull open with a rock, as soon as the screams rang out the guards of the exploration cut down the cannibal. They found old gold and silver sculptures, they robbed and took the things from the left over structures which angered the ysluvians causing them to start a raid against the group. There was 5 explorers and 4 guards, and when the raid was finished 4 explorers remain and 1 guard remains injured. The explorers still were able to navigate and explore but they were all mentally distraught. They found an enchanted artifact within a temple which gave them the ability to withstand the cold and heat better, raising their chances of surviving. Then one of the explorers started ripping up their clothes and crying, attracting 2 of the explorers closer, then the explorer snapped the neck of one of them and wrestled with the other until the guard came and killed the psycho. The group argued about who to trust and why they should trust the guard with the weaponry, this argument got loud and the person who just was wrestling beat down the other one. They continued in, they fed their Sloths with the ice rye and the somewhat suicidal explorers, hungry and angry raced each-other to go try and eat one of the sea cabbages. So now they learnt of a new food source. When they got to one of the second temples, one of the biggest temples, they camped outside of it.

When The final guard entered the temple the roof of it started flashing colours and lights of wild variations, and a statue of Yslalchiv sat in the middle of the room, when he touched the statue it sent him through to the dimensions of the gods, he appeared at the foot of the chair of Yslalchiv, Yslalchiv sat upon his thrown and looked down on the starving, injured guard, and as the story goes: Yslalchiv said this: “ I have seen your bravery and honesty, you are the pure of the Gurks, the one to cure Bishlais people of their heretical belief of him, take this and conquest south and bring back with you the demons of the jungles to your gurkic friends and spread word of Yslalchiv in its purist form, the Gurks must be salvaged to be used to spread the true belief of myself to the west.” The guard who’s name now forever remembered as the gurkic reformer, İrekiaz, got clothed by Yslalchivs angelic Ysluvians in a large gurkic armour made out of cobolak and a spear with a long blade on the end for slicing and cutting and he was transported back to the temple, he was blessed with the ability to be a great warrior. When he left the temple he found one of the explorers feasting on the other.

### ancestry ad ideological background, also early life

There are two different memories of what happened when İrekiaz found the display of cannibalism outside the temple. In Gurkic popular conception İrekiaz slayed the final explorer and walked back into the steppe, casting off his old life with his final companion. Whereas the living Alyankanized descendants of the Yslalchiv worshiping warlords claim İrekiaz recruited the explorer, who was supposedly an old friend, and took him as his right hand man for the early conflicts.

Regardless of what people think the Gurkic reformer’s judgement was, his next actions was to return home. After the leaving the temple he returned to his mother’s tribe of origin, since İrekiaz’s father and mother were in rivaling tribes. İrekiaz’s father was a boy soldier who was captured in tribal warfare. A boy who was groomed to be the husband of the İrekiaz’s mother, a Gurkic princess. But after raising İrekiaz, his father took his son and fled to his original tribe. İrekiaz having lived two different lives in two opposing, but very related, tribes raised him with a passive resentment. A constant thought in İrekiaz’s life had been about how it was such a hassle for the rivalries of tribes to get between his family.

while listening to stories from his estranged paternal grandmother, he learned about how all Gurks originally came from the same family, and had splintered off over history. This set the ideological basis for the kind of guy who would want to unite nations. Once you give a guy with a preference of unity some kind of traumatic experience, test of greatness, and an interaction with the divine all in one event, you basically all ready have a capable leader ready to wage war. Add this in with the common knowledge all Gurks were trained with the bow and animal husbandry, he was a competent fighter to boot.

### İrekiaz, family head

İrekiaz, in what was probably some kind of long meditation, walked all the way back to his mother’s tribe. He had not talked to his mother in a decade, not while he lived with his father’s tribe, and definitely not as he was about to be sent out by that tribe on great explorations. Now walking great distances was commonplace, but İrekiaz walked without the aid of any camel of sloth. All the animals had died at the chaos of the northern temple, so İrekiaz walked the equivalence of Orenberg to Kabul on foot while carrying the belongings of the exploration and not getting killed or captured by a foriegn Gurkic tribe.

Some Gurks remember the story of his policics beginning with İrekiaz greeting his old mother as he was at the top of a green hill with one other man following behind him. And other stories seem to make it out that it was just İrekiaz arriving from the horizons.

How he found his way to a mobile camp in one of Vraekeapia’s largest continuous biomes alone is unbelievable. maybe he had help from that explorer he might have saved, maybe he was guided by ysalschiv, or maybe he just remembered the exact locations of where his family would set up camp. But he still went right up to the head of the tribe and demanded to see who was more fit to ‘lead’ then and there. Normally no head of clan would accept a program so on the spot, it would be decided by the elders and hyped up for a few weeks before anything happened! But it must have seemed amusing to play by this starving grizzled cousin’s terms, so he obliged. Or maybe İrekiaz did wait around a few weeks, this kind of stuff gets lost in history. İrekiaz when given the bow to see who could shoot the farthest arrow, the head of the clan shot two hills away, and İrekiaz shot into the heavens. When the head of the clan was made to race İrekiaz on camelback, İrekiaz disappeared over the horizon line only to reappear coming from the opposite direction. And finally when İrekiaz was to fist fight for the position (even though İrekiaz’s victory was already assured by this point), İrekiaz beat the man who was most likely his brother to an inch of his life. The stories show the great reformer going far beyond what was needed to be considered worthy, but it was the first instance of the Gurks being convinced the warrior had been blessed by Bishlai.

### The first feast

It was tradition for a tribe to take it easy for a fortnight after a change of ‘leadership’, but İrekiaz had a new tradition in mind. The night after his coronation, İrekiaz himself slayed and prepared 3 great steppe beasts as a feast, since his family would need to be well fed to be open to what he was about to make them do. The children of his tribe, İrekiaz’s nephews and nieces, were up early to discover the most meat they had ever seen, with İrekiaz standing stoically over it. A true breakfast was had, and İrekiaz spoke up, the first full paragraphs he had probably spoken since being blinded by Ysalchiv’s light. He spoke of a united nation, and of how those “we have been stealing from our whole lives are in fact organs of the same celestial Gurkic body.” He shut down all dialogues that could have started about this apparent heresy, for İrekiaz knew it was his brothers who were the heretics. Then, a minute after he concluded, the great reformer gestured to pack up camp, for they were headed towards the northeast.

## Legacy

* The guy has thousands of living descendants, which maternally inherit the İrekiaz name
* While he failed to make the Gurkic peoples into a moral and careful nation, those close to him did cover to Yslalchiv worship. It was those coverts who would be spared from Bishlai's destruction as they were not in his domain. even though Yslalchiv followers were in a small minority of the Gurkic Khaanate they founded by it's end, it was these people who made up a majority of the ancestors of the surviving Gurkic-Alyankan Hybrid nations.
* Most surviving people with significant Gurkic blood would be worshiping İrekiaz as a great ancestor, if it wasn't for the fact they are in the cultural spheres of the Varans, Alyakans, and Sylyanians, who all regard the memory of Gurkic expansion with scorn.
	+ Even if the Sylyanians being the mongol-eqsue people they are share more with the Gurks than anyone else, part of their National Mythos has a big theme of freedom from being a Gurkic tributary (tribes in debt to the Gurkic Khaanat who economically and militarily were puppets)