Notable Unathi
Unathi history and society has a long list of notable individuals and heroes that are known across Moghes, or who's fame has become a household name in both Moghes and Ourea.
Myths and Legends
The majority of Unathi legends follow the feats of individuals and their impact on the world. They stress the importance and abilities of single individuals, and carry with them moral lessons that tend to reinforce Unathi cultural ideas.
Tryazali Kres'ha'nor
Tryazali was born in 949 CE to a minor noble family in what is modern day Baandr. He is credited in Unathi myth as founding the first Hegemony. Information about Trizarki comes from the epic The First Prince and the Night Queen written 1572-1602 CE. According to the epic, when Tryazali was 26 he became separated from a hunting party out in the mountains. He wandered for five days and five nights, unable to find food, water, or shelter. As he was about to die from exposure he was saved by a mysterious tribe of all-female warriors. After he was nursed back to health he was taken to their queen, who styled herself The Empress Of Night. She was a ruthless leader with an azure-colored hide and pure white eyes who claimed magical abilities and connection to the ancestors. She lead her tribe on various raids and kept their village hidden in the deep forests in the mountains. She demanded that he repay the debt he owed them for saving his life to save the life of one of her daughters, who had been kidnapped by a nobleman in S'th. The Queen promises many blessings for the safe return of her child Raz'ha, but warns him that should he deviate from his task a curse that will doom him and his clan for as long as they tread upon Moghes.
Tryazali eventually found the daughter being held as a slave by the Lord of S'th, Taraz Jy'haza, kept as an exotic curiosity as her hide is also an azure color. He storms the Lord's castle and demands a duel. The Lord rebuffs him and sends his own soldiers, but one by one they fall before Tryazali. Eventually the Lord accepts the challenge after overhearing whispers of cowardice. According to the epic the resulting duel lasted two entire days before the Lord finally fell. Tryazali proclaims himself the new Lord of S'th, liberating the city and freeing Raz'ha. The two end up falling in love, and she elects to remain with Tryazali, becoming queen of S'th and taking the name Kres'ha'nor. Tryazali expanded the influence of S'th and eventually created the First Hegemony. He died when he was 53, on 1002 CE, and the Kres'ha'nor Hegemony after him continued to grow to dominate most of Moghes.
Shizarsa Ksi'ka
Ksi'ka is believed to have been born in 1632 CE to the leaders of a small tribe outside Darakath. She was bethrothed to a hunter from another village but even from a young age she resented this fact. She is known to have been a wild child, picking fights with other children. When she was 17, before the planned wedding day, she fled her village with her father's sword and crossbow. Outraged, her betrothed, Karask, sent several expeditions after her to arrest and return her. Ksi'ka managed to wound a hunter sent after her with her crossbow but her inexperience with combat lead her to being quickly disarmed and arrested. As she was being escorted back her group was ambushed by bandits and she was kidnapped yet again. Shizarsa was held as a captive of the bandits, who forced her to cook, clean, and otherwise act as a maid for their enclave. According to legend she struck a friendship with one of the bandits and he agreed to train her to defend herself.
When she was 27 Ksi'ka killed the leader of the bandits and began leading the men herself. She became an infamous bandit, harassing traveling merchants. One day she even attacked Karask's village, killing him and freeing a woman he had taken as another wife in her place.
Her fame and power grew until she controlled a small petty kingdom that surrounded Darakath and with dozens of kills under her belt. Fearing the barbarians ravaging the countryside Lord of the city sent out his eldest son, Gri'zarsuth, to lead 48 of the city's soldiers to find the bandit enclave and destroy it.
Eventually Gri'zarsuth and his men managed to ambush Ksi'ka's camp and slew or captured the majority of her men. According to legend Ksi'ka managed to kill four men and was the last one standing. Gri'zarsuth managed to knock her out by hitting her in the head with the flat of his sword.
Ksi'ka was considered a wild savage by everyone in the city when she was dragged to the dungeons in chains, but Gri'zarsuth fell in love with her. He begged his father four times to spare her, and four times he refused. The day before her execution Gri'zarsuth begged again, saying that he could civilize Ksi'ka. Finally his father relented on the condition that he be able to civilize Gri'zarsuth within a year.
Ksi'ka's wild spirit was reigned in by Gri'zarsuth over the following year, and the barbarian savage was transformed into a proper princess. At the end of the year she was brought before Gri'zarsuth's father, who marveled at the change a man could bring such a wild woman. She was allowed to live, and eventually married Gri'zarsuth.
Ekilianar Kazata
Kazata is the founder and leader of the radical revolutionary Kazata Movement and the leader of the Kazata Freehold, and remains a national icon and hero for Guwan and other underclass groups in Unathi society. He was born in the small town of Yiraz in 2405, where his father was the leading Tha'kh shaman. The peasant communities were under increasing pressure from the small landowning class of noblemen and Guildsmen who monopolized land and water resources. Early on Kazata involved himself in political processes to protest against the Guilds and the Lords. When he was 19 he participated in a protest outside the Azakara Guild headquarters which had raised incredibly steep prices for drinking water supplied to the town. The Town Watch, bribed by the Guild leaders, brutally repressed the protest. Kazata was detained and mistreated while in jail, which radicalized him. When his father died in 2426 he inherited his position as a shaman and became a member of the loose organization of Tha'kh shamans that oversaw spiritual affairs in the town
Kazata used his position and granted influence to spread his radical anti-feudal message to members of his community, advocating the rights of the lower classes. His young age and radical message caused many to reject his philosophy and report him to the authorities. For this he was detained in 2427 for Dissent Against Noble Authority for the maximum 6 years. While in prison he was eventually given the position of Chaplain by the sympathetic warden, and his access to the prison library and daily contact with large numbers of prisoners coming to him for guidance lead him to refine his speaking ability and charisma.
When he was released in 2433 Kazata exploited the resentment that had grown in his town, and until the Contact War of 2438 he was able to grow his influence with the peasantry. He was positioned as a central leader of the peasant revolt in the province when violent unrest broke out as the Izweski garrisons left to join the war effort. Cooperating with a number of other peasant leaders he formed the Grand Peasant Army of which he soon became the undisputed leader.
Kazata, now ruling most of the province unquestioned, quickly put out to implement his reforms that saw land returned to the peasantry. A council of hand-picked Th'akh shamans was installed to rule the province under Kazata, who voted him as the High Voice and declared their province the Kazata Freehold.
Kazata's forces continued to battle the Izweski forces during the Contact War. After the catastrophic nuclear exchange the Izweski offensive into the Freehold was abandoned for a few short months, but it was replaced by chaotic incursions by deserters, bandits, and other groups desperately trying to find refuge. For the next 10 years Kazata attempted to hold his struggling nation together while also pressing a ruthless military campaign against Izweski forces.
By 2458 Kazata, now 53, has managed to carve out a small nation that has managed to take To'ha'dat and even threaten the major Izweski city of Ura'Mastyx. However it is far from its prime, as the Hegemony considers the radical revolutionary to be an existential threat to its authority and continues violent scorched earth tactics. Kazata's continued campaign to liberate the peasant and Guwan classes and his continued military success against the brutal Izweski has lead to him becoming a folk hero.
Kazata fiercely enforces his radical ideology that demands fair treatment of refugees, the violent overthrow of the Unathi feudal system, the establishment of a theocratic government, common land ownership, and the establishment of a theocratic government based on Th'akh teachings.