Ðúrýlór

Ðúrýlor was a prominent military leader in the Arðor-Tal, taking part in many of the major battles of the Crisis of 24982 AYM. Later on, he was united in brotherhood with two other warlords, Šófëð and Kóvað, to make up the tribe of Ýbašý-Ýïr. In this role, he fought in the tribe's largest conflicts, especially the Ýïrúl War. Of the three, he was the first to die, being killed by the Këhóš-Ýïr at the Third Battle of Vëlaš-Ïmrú (also known as the Battle of Ðúrýlor in his honor).

Biography

Ðúrýlor was most likely part of the isolated and ostracized group known as the Fýr-Hŋýtor. This is because, in addition to being left out of familial deliberations, they were also barred from inscribing their names on the Žötó-Ïdhatón, the genealogical family records, which was the case with Ðúrýlor. Due to this lack of records, the exact age and birth year is lost to time, but judging from the descriptions of him by contemporaries like Šófëð, he was the oldest of the three and showing signs of age by the time of his death. Historians place his birth to be between 25050 and 25040 AYM, corresponding to an age between 59 and 69 years old. The most contentious part of his identity was his name, which, like all other Ýbašian military leaders, did not feature the double-barrelled format that was typical of Fýr-Hŋýtians. Most historians attribute that to the sentiments surrounding the Ýbašïan Tribe itself, which may have championed the idea that one was to establish an identity apart from the Hŋýtians, but even so, it is strange that absolutely no mention of Ðúrýlor's pre-Ýbašïan name, if there was any, in the historical records.

Ðúrýlor was born near the closing years the Second Wave of Žötó-Žimiara, a group of radical individuals from all 12 families who, from 25080 to 25044 AYM, launched widespread changes in the Ïlýrhonid Tribe's cultural and social scene. Soon, this would recede in favor of a large wave of natural disasters that pummelled the tribe from 25044 to 25021 AYM. All this time, the stresses incurred by these sudden shifts caused the birth rate across all families to decrease dramatically, but those of the Fýr-Hŋýtor, whose isolation forbade their knowledge of these current events, stayed relatively steady, and even increased at times. Ðúrýlor was a part of this major 'baby boom' that, by 24982 AYM, had caused the Fýr-Hŋýtor to make up 25% the entire Family's population.

Crisis of 24982 AYM

Around 25010 AYM, the Hŋýtians would rally around Žúž-Akëð, a popular military leader, and rename themselves the Arðor-Tal. Ðúrýlor would enlist in this army, first meeting Kóvað and Šófëð there. Historical context requires that all three of them served in the various military engagements that befell the Talian in the succeeding days and weeks of the Crisis of 24982 AYM, like the Battle of Arhžvóo and the Battle at the Palace, and the comradery of the three would render them inseparable, especially after one of the three's family (it is not known which) became among the victims of the Massacre of the Krëšŋ-Ðórr. At different points along the Crisis, all three of them would become promoted to a higher role, each with command over a specific group of armymen.

In the resultant Ceasefire of Zïlëŋý and the many-faceted clashes that erupted afterwards, the three comrades found themselves in an entirely new organization that was fraught with internal divisions and differences, and as such, they depended more than ever on each other. Together with their various armies, they formed the brand-new tribe of Ýbašý-Ýïr, which was defined by the shedding of typical Talian identity in favor of a newer and more independent one. In particular, they drew heavily from the customs of the Khólteð Family at large, especially in transitioning to single-barrelled names, which alienated them in the eyes of the other Talian groups (who saw them as leaning towards their rivals the Arðor-Úŋï. The newly-founded Ýbašý-Ýïr, who adopted a territory right in the middle of the familial land, would spend the majority of their time in the Crisis fending off attacks from both the Talians and the Úŋïans. They were mere miles north of the site in which the Battle of Köš-Ëmvrad erupted in 13-16 Geta-Eimarae, but historical records show that, sensing the growing tensions, they had the prudence to move a location more to the north, an idea likely suggested by the similarly-prudent Ðúrýlor. Like all other Family members, Ðúrýlor and the Ýbašïan Tribe would be forced to leave the Ïlýrhonid Tribe in the early days of the Heta-Eimarae, 24981 AYM, upon the issuance of the 24982 AYM Ultimatum.

Khólteðtian Wars (Ýïrúl War)

The Ýïrúl War was the first of the many conflicts in what is deemed the Khólteðian Wars, which embroiled the Khólteðt Family in violence from 24981 to 24977 AYM. Prior to it, the interim Khólteðtian government, led by Šïk-hórom, designated particular parcels of land for each of the thirty-two tribes that arose during the Crisis, and that of Ýbašý-Ýïr was a section of cliff that overlooked the coastal tribes of Këhóš-Ýïr and Belúb-Ýïr. With access to the Tlïvhakk Ocean, these two coastal tribes therefore had access to self-replenishing sustenance from farmland as opposed to the destructive nature of in-ground mining that inland tribes like Ýbašý-Ýïr were forced to rely on. Still hesitant to form alliances with other tribes due to their experiences during the Crisis, Ýbašý-Ýïr, still equipped with a relatively large portion of the original army, turned to repeated instances of raiding as a means to coerce these coastal tribes to pay tribute. These attempts would erupt into the Këhóš-Ýbašý War, the First Phase of the Ýïrúl War.

Being primarily a military-based tribe, Ýbašý-Ýïr had little civic government. Military excursions were near-constant, with two of the military leaders and their various armies going on raids at any given time. The third took the position of the civic leader, whose main purpose was to guard the Ýbašïan-owned land against any foreign invaders and operate in small-scale mining of the ground to act as an emergency cache of sustenance.