Shimra Navgar
Foci Shimra Navgar
Shimra was the brother of Zantis. A focused, talented and Ambitious Marianan artificer, eventually coming to control the western half of Geiddnir. Shimra was able to confederate various Guant tribes of the Geiddnir Steppe under his command. Eventually, he and Zantis fought a long and bloody war.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
A number of years after Shimra and Zantis' birth, their mother died. Their father married another member of the Marianan aristocracy. In 7990 ZR, their father fell ill, and he arranged for them to travel to the excavation sites of Casantoa. They were apprenticed to her, and unlike other children sent to her camps, they remained with her.
Education
Apprenticeship to Casantoa
Casantoa's camp was located in the desert, and was populated by the more modern of tribesmen, called the Ulus, and by young nobles who were sent there by their parents. Through the years, Shimra grew to be the polar opposite of his brother, for his brother was cold and favored the artifacts they excavated. Shimra instead enjoyed interacting with the people at the dig sites and participated in almost all of the digs, and eventually came to oversee all of the digs done at Casantoa's camp. While studying the Quan, an ancient race whose machines were the main reason for Casantoa's camp, Zantis discovered that all of the sites where large amounts of Quan devices were found seemed to circle around a central point. Casantoa, Zantis, and Shimra flew to this place in an Ornithopter. Once there they found a large Quan city, which Zantis named Krypis. They landed and wandered among the ruins of the city, and when they finally got to the center of the city they found a great machine powered by a Quan Mana Battery. While inspecting the machine there was an explosion; when they awoke from the aftermath each brother was holding one half of the great battery in his hand. After the explosion, each brother became increasingly hostile towards one another. The stones seemed to have odd effects on both living and nonliving things. Zantis' stone, which he named the Amp-Node, seemed to make things stronger than normally possible, while Shimra's stone sapped the strength from both artifacts and living creatures. Zantis named this the Syphon Core. Another effect the visit to Krypis had was that Mishra had disturbing dreams about darkness, trying to lure him to somewhere. One night after drinking Shimra went to confront Zantis and tried to take the stone from him, the fight was heard around the camp, and when Casantoa tried to stop the brothers she was caught in between the power surging from the two stones and died. Shimra, ashamed at what he had caused, fled during the confusion that followed.Employment
Guant Vizer
Shimra traveled across Geiddnir, and eventually called back to Krypis by the darkness in his dreams. Before he could reach it, he was captured by the Ming, a militant faction of the Guant, was subjugated into slavery for them and had the Syphon Core taken from him. He was forced to do all sorts of menial tasks until he came across Raj Har, a young Guant who had been at Casantoa's camp. Raj convinced the Khan of the Ming to appoint Shimra as Vizer to his young son, teaching him the language of Mariana. Shimra's lot improved for a few years, but the Khan began to worry about his son. In Guant culture, it was seen as a weakness to rely on others, so the Khan began to ponder having Shiram killed so his son would not rely on him. That plan never developed, for one night, Shimra had another disturbing dream, of a mechanical parody of nature. Waking from this screaming, he had no time to dwell on it, for a giant mechanical beast in the shape of a Dragon appeared from under the ground and started rampaging. The Khan was killed in the confusion. Shimra and Raj used this confusion to retrieve the Syphon Core, so Shimra could weaken it, but to everyone's surprise, Shimra found he could directly control it. The Khan's son became the new Khan, and appointed Shimra his Magister and set about using the dragon engine, or Mechanicus Dracon , to unify the Guant people under the Ming.Pawn of Surl
During the last years of the war against Zantis, both sides became infiltrated by a group of fanatical, machine-worshipping priests called the Brotherhood of Surl. They created a wedge in the relationship that was already shaky between Shimra and his apprenticeNora Daash. Before too long, they became Navgar's council. It is unknown exactly when; but, at some point, Shimra was betrayed by them and turned over to Surl. Based on hints of Nora's last talk with Won Saat, it was likely before he arrived on Lokfung the island he and Zantis were fighting over. Surl had sworn to slay both of the brothers long ago; the Brotherhood of Surl told Shimra they had ways to make him stronger as old age and a lung disease began to weaken him. At this point, it is speculated that Shimra was brought to Endeavor and either slain by Surl who had Shimra's skin stretched out over some form of construct that replaced him and Shimra was turned into a Rathi by his own accord.Final Punishment
In the Battle of Lokfung, Zantis revealed Shimra's Stand-in to be a construct of flesh and Rathian Biometal. When the imposter completely abandoned their guise to attack Zantis, they released an enormous burst of power that destroyed both attacker and the sentient forest they were fighting over. With the failure of the attack on Gradus , Shimra was bonded to Endeavor's Ninth Layer and is mentally connected to the Rathi on Endeavor.
Current Status
Bound in the core of Endeavor
Current Location
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Circumstances of Birth
Shimra was born on the last day of the year 8000 ZR to one of the noble families of Mariana , one of the three primordial civilizations of Gradus
Children
Gender
Asexual
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