Nazar L. Vartanian

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**Nazar Levon Vartanian** was a leader of the Nydian Revolution, Revolutionary Councilor, politician, and statesman.

## Life

Vartanian was born to an upper class family in Vanaza in the year 1127 CE. Despite his higher birth, his father, a businessman, gambled away their money on pointless ventures, and eventually sent the family into destitution. He would abandon the family when Nazar is but a boy, leaving Nazar with his mother and younger brothers and sisters. Nazar rarely attended school, due to his family needing his monetary support, therefore he would attend his job instead. At the age of 24, Nazar had saved up enough money on the side to afford his tuition for the Vanaza Academy of Law. For the first time, Nazar left the slums of Vanaza, and ventured to the city center, where the academic focus in our small province was located. Nazar spent the next few years studying profusely, until he passed the bar exam and became a certified lawyer.

Afterwards, Nazar would travel back to the slums where his ilk occupied, only to find that his sibilings had all died of disease, and his mother had gone insane. Attempting to breastfeed a deceased child, which was once Nazar's closest brother. He would attempt to help his mother, but she would force him to leave, mistaking him for his father in her delirium. So Nazar left once more, and would perform his practice out of carriages he'd rent for a period. Eventually, he'd earn enough money from donations and his practice to buy a fine apartment in middle class district of Vanaza city. He wouldn't furnish his home lavishly, but simply, for he used any funds he had in extra to put into his foundation, the Ohannes Vartanian Foundation, named for his young brother who had died of tuberculosis not long before his return home, and who he had found in his mother's arms. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization, and focuses on helping the poor and needy. It works closely with the Nydian Apostolic Church, headed by the benevolent Cyril III.

Through his practice and his foundation, however, Nazar would build an army. Nydia had long suffered under foreign rule and the wars between alien peoples. It was time for freedom. Nazar became one of the first to secretly rally support for Nydian independence, appealing to the hearts of those who listened with his eloquent oratory and pride. When the Revolution broke out, Nazar would be right besides his comrades as a captain in the effort to liberate Vanaza city from Steinard rule.

Nazar was a member of the Revolutionary Council due to his loyal connections in the Independence Army. The Vartanian Freedom Fighters and their leader, Nazar Vartanian, became some of the greatest voices for the ideals of their revolution, inspiring many others to join their ranks. Being the most popular force in their army, besides the war hero, Gaioz Tesentan. Nazar originally supported the proclamation of a free constitution, ensuring the rights of the people while also establishing a federal republic.

*"We fought a long, grueling, and terrible war for the freedom of many, and establishing a monarchy or dictatorship would be a grievous injustice to both who live, and those we have lost."* - Nazar Vartanian on the idea of a Nydian monarchy.

However, despite these fervent convictions, he changed his position after the crowning of Gaioz I such that he opposed any idea of dissolving the monarchy after it had been established, describing it as having become "the very fabric of our nation".

## Death

Nazar Vartanian died on December 21st, 1174, at age 47, of complications from a cancerous tumor. Lacking family, Vartanian's wealth, estate, and all other property have been left to Anastasia Lavada.