Usorring Isshilu

Usorring Isshilu of Inghara

Usorring Isshilu was the legendary ruler of the Ingharans, the first Niedene state that controlled a sizable portion of territory. The Ingharan state was posthumously considered the first Empire of the Niedene, and so Usorring was the first Emperor of the Niedene.

Legend

Birth

Legend states that in the ancient city of Sibarupalkinan (Shortened to Siukinnan, Modern: Sarikin, Flowing Cloud Place) a young boy was born and left among the reeds to drown from an unwanted mother. It is said that a river spirit named Orashrumagi Modern: (Irashaage, Storm Bearer) pitied the boy and took him to a village upstream named Kihdrado (Modern: Kissahtta, Town Among the Pines). It was at Kihdrado, where the boy was left in an ornate basket at the docks; he was discovered by a fisherman and taken to the center of town.
The people of the town convened and a family of shamans offered to take the boy in, his new father being named Sohri. Sohri raised the boy as his own and named him Usorring. Usoring was taught magic and warriorship from his village, although the young boy seemed drawn to the waters of the river. One day he went to the river and saw fish floating down, dead and blackened. He met the spirit that had saved his life, although he did not know what had transpired those years before. The spirit was dying from a blackened wound on his body, sustained from the lands of the north. The spirit gave Usorring all his knowledge and the boy learned of his fate as an orphan. The spirit's horns would coalesce themselves as a great sword that would come to be known as Anvhovandai (Wind's Breath).
Usorring took his sword and went to his home to gather his cloak and robes, he put on white facepaint and red around his eyes. His robes were a dark maroon and his cloak black; he last gathered his war mask and hung it from his neck. Usorring set off north along the river with three of his closest friends to discover the source of the pollution, which was found at a place called Vanharrnan (City of the Vanhar). Vanharrnan was situated in the Sirritara mountains with much of it falling below the surface into the earth.

Journey to Vanharrnan

Usorring ventured with his friends towards the great city, as he ventured he saw trees dying and birds falling from the sky. He knew that this had been the place of legends, where the Vanhar met the great Niedene Chiefs to release the spirit Sanri. At the mountain's zenith there was a great temple, and there they could see fires lit. They snuck through the ruins towards the mountain temple. They saw men in dark robes along the way heading up as well, and so Usorring shadowed them. On the stairs up, they diverged and went to the side into another building. Usorring and his friends continued to the top where they were met by a great lift and what appeared to be three men coming up it. They laid an ambush and defeated the three, stealing their cloaks as a disguise and venturing down the lift. At the bottom was a series of hallways that led to an open chamber with an empty box on it, the box was leaking the corruption all over into the pits at the side of it.

They battled through many guards and shut the box, many cultists died and some of their corpses were reanimated through the corruption. The heroes battled up to the lift and went up. They snapped the chains so it may never be used again and the corruption was stuck there. As they exited, they saw that cultists were flooding the stairs from the lower levels of the temple's exterior. Usorring summoned the power of his sword and unleashed a great gale down the stairs that cut through his enemies. He would exit the city with his men. The box was taken to the nearby town of Vaishiing where a shaman burnt it and used a spell to prevent any leaking as it occurred.

Reign

The wildlife seemed to recover, so he ventured back down south and declared his success; his people welcomed him as their king. As ruler of his town, he would absorb his neighbors under his federation that eventually became a kingdom and then an empire. Over time, he would come to lead in many wars against the corruption and blighted; he even united the Niedene with their old enemy, Elves. During these wars, he was most famous for his oath. The Oath of the Stone Cup was an event that ten thousand households took part in during the Ingharan age, which led to the formation of the Mil'lith'koryo. The Mil'lith'koryo, or the Band of Ten-Thousand Stones, was a set of ten thousand households that pledged to defend their country from those who would seek to threaten it. Their most famous action was during the last great blight of Usorring, where they were the vanguard and charged heroically into battle. The Mil'lith'koryo was severely weakened after this moment.

Final Years and Death

Usorring would continue to rule for years after the battle peacefully, in which he stabilized the realm and ordered the destruction of Vanharrnan. He had one son named Isshura who ruled a long time and interred at Kiveanna.
The death of Usorring would occur as he ventured with the last of his Mil'lith'koryo soldiers to the site of a great comet striking near Vanharrnan that had unearthed the beasts created in the tunnels of the subterranean city. He and his men would make a great final stand, with his last actions resealing the tunnels with him and his men inside it. The only survivor was the messengers Muksara and Jang'il who was sent to tell the families of the Mil'lith'koryo.

Date of Death

1600s MKA

Circumstances of Birth

Left to drown in a river but was saved by the spirit Orashrumagi.

Circumstances of Death

Died sealing ancient evils beneath the soil with the Mil'lith'koryo.

Birthplace

Siukinnan

Place of Death

Vanharrnan

Current Residence

Buried below Vanharrnan

Sex

Male

Eyes

Unknown

Hair

Unknown

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Fair

Height

Unknown

Weight

Unknown

Belief/Deity

Ingharan Pantheon