Azan Shaer

**Azan Shaer** is a Yazan Dune Elf who served as the first Pharaoh of the Third Dominion of Ashura. Before this, he served as Governor of the Sharla Province in the Aurlûnor Velande, and was the Grand Secretariat of the country.

## Biography

Born in a poor Yaza majority village in Hampo in the year 807 ACA, Azan endured a life of crushing poverty and limited political mobility in the lands of the Kumiho, being excluded from their great clans. Seeking an improvement in his lot in life and better representation for his people, he took deeply into the practice of Twin Dragon and learning the culture of the Celestial Elves that had originally freed his people from slavery. When he became an adult, he became properly initiated by making a visit to the Grand Temple in the year 835, and he gained employment as a courier in the year 837 ACA, delivering correspondence between Lhûmar and Ruscoliemar. He enrolled in the University of Lhûmar in 850 ACA after saving his income and receiving a small stipend from his family. He received an education to become a proper minister, learning the inner workings of the government, fully into integrating into Lhûren culture, and all but abandoning any delusions he held on his Ashuran past. He served as a minor minister in Lhûmar from 880 ACA, until a change in politics would make him politically expedient to use by the Imperial Court. In the year 931 ACA, the Sharla province would come under control of the Aurlûnor Velande, and as one of the few well known Azerals working in Lhûmar, he was appointed to enlighten and govern his peoples’ former home.

In the year 932 ACA, he would commission the rework of an old Ashuran temple into a proper Twin Dragon Temple, much to the chagrin of the Local Ashurans. He would enforce a standard of worship and would slowly begin moving Yazans back into Ebonimemar, as his loyal retainers, while reorganizing the tribal councils of what remained of the Qanti and Nabut. Being unable to do much work with the Ashuran natives, much of the city would remain damaged and its population hostile to Azan’s efforts of conversion. Still, much of the damage that had befallen the province was repaired, and the city was given new life as funds from the Imperial Province would flow steadily in for reconstruction, and the scattered peoples of Ashura reunited once more in the capital city of Ebonimemar. In 937 ACA, refugees from Lennox would arrive, and would help Azan rebuild many buildings.

## Appearance

Azan Shaer is an unremarkable Dune Elf in appearance, bearing short dark red hair and ebony skin and standing a relatively short five feet tall. His most distinctive attribute is a small prominent Lyn tattoo on his forehead, following a Yazan custom of tattooing their children with the dragon whose gender is the opposite of their birth.  While he generally does not disrobe in the presence of others, he does possess large tattoos displaying the realms of Lothranis and Momaganon on the front of his chest, and on his back, a ring with four colored circles representing the Great Sages. When he is in public, he makes a point to wear either his court uniform or a white and red robe depending on the circumstance.

## Personality

Azan Shaer is a stern official who follows a strict code of honor and respect when interacting with others in any official setting. Generally throwing himself to accomplishing his duty he generally attempts to maintain his composure and appear calm. Outside of work he is generally quite personable, eager to talk to others and become friendly with new faces. Though he is generally an orderly and just figure, some of his zealotry manifests when dealing with foreign religions and especially when dealing with the Qanti and Nabut as a whole, who he tends to view as destructive and inferior cultures.

He is a fervent worshiper of Twin Dragon, believing it to be as the one of the only signs that a people can live harmoniously without causing unnecessary harm to others or their landscape