Nasir Shazeiros
Warlord of the Primrose Crusade
Nasir Shazeiros, a half-elf warlord, becomes obsessed with the history of the Golden Famines and begins building an army to seek more ancient supply caches and restore the Adlon Empire by conquest. His crusade comes to an end at the Battle of High Tide, when his forces are ambushed from behind by a coalition of Mii'res and Val'res forces. Nasir's body was never found.Born in 1326 AS, in an Orbarrow barge-town to a Diz'res mother and a Norveen father, Nasir Shazeiros had a nondescript upbringing. During his mid-teen years, Nasir learned he didn't fit in well with the barge-folk. The humans teased him for being too weak, and the elves teased him for being too clumsy. He had a hard time maintaining employment on the barges, and his relationship with his father grew more hostile with each lost job. At age 17, he chose to leave Orbarrow to find his fortunes in Nehemen, eventually coming to Khasahn. After some time on the streets, he managed to find employment in a book shop, maintaining it by day and sleeping in it by night, having unlimited access to the store's inventory. Having always identified more with the culture of his mother than his father, he soon found himself fascinated by stories of the Adlon Empire, and the notion that nearly a millennia and half before his birth, his people had been the undisputed rulers of Rhyduania. Over 1300 years after the sudden and catastrophic fall of the Empire, reliable information about the time before the Sundering was hard to come by, and his fascination turned to the The Golden Famines, a period roughly 600 years after the Sundering when kings and queens convinced people to kill each other by the thousands while trying to reclaim the buried fragments of the Empire's power. During his years spent working in Khasahn, he discovered that he had some talent in sorcery, but didn't develop it beyond a handful of spells that were useful in his daily life, and a few cantrips to defend himself with. In his mid 20s, a significantly wealthier Nasir decided to visit his parents to share with them the success he'd had in Nehemen. Upon arrival he discovered that his mother had been killed in an apparent mugging, and his father had been too drunk to defend her. Nasir's father became the first man he ever killed. His worldview and ambitions radically changed by the loss of his mother and slaying of his father, Nasir joined a mercenary company in Nehemen, recruited on the basis of his sorcery. He received a basic level of training in the use of arms and armor, but mostly supported his comrades with his arcane skills. While in mercenary service, he discovered an uncanny knack for battlefield strategy and leadership. By his 45th winter, he was the owner of a small company of his own and gaining a reputation in his field. In 1378, word began to spread that Nasir's company had acquired a stunning array of high quality gear of mysterious origin. The Primrose Company's ranks swelled, as it became known the pay was good and the gear was excellent, even as rumors spread that the company devoted increasing amounts of resources to exploring ruins in far flung wilderness areas. By 1400, he had assembled a true army, and carved himself a sizable piece of land from eastern Orbarrow and southwestern Nehemen, no longer an ambitious mercenary captain but a full-on warlord. At this point, he became open about his true intentions: to harness the power of any remnants of the Empire he could get his hands on, and lead an army to re-establish a continental empire by conquest In 1406, having done all the recruiting and equipping that was reasonably achievable, Nasir Shazeiros started the Primrose Crusade in earnest, launching a campaign following the Rhi'vul River south, raiding river settlements along the way. Intending to find a way into the mountain fortresses of the Khalvari dwarves to give himself a strong and defensible position from which to launch his long term conquest of Rhyduania, Nasir entered the Emerald Valley from the east, and became mired in a year long guerrilla resistance by Khal'res elves and Khalvari dwarves. In 1408, a final push by the massed forces of the peoples of the mountains drove the Primrose Crusade out of the mountains, and over the course of three months pushed them back to the shores of the Skymirror Sea. Encircled by dwarves and mountain elves, and with his back to the sea, Nasir dug in for trench warfare, maintaining a bloody stalemate for two and a half months. His crusade came to an end during the Battle of High Tide. With supplies running desperately low, the Khalvarn peoples made for a final strike against Nasir's position. During the heaviest fighting since Shazeiros had been pushed out of the mountains, he was unexpectedly ambushed from behind by an amphibious assault from a coalition of Mii'res and Val'res forces.
Nasir Shazeiros' body was never recovered, but after the battle, he was presumed dead and the few survivors of his army disbanded. The final fate of his corpse remains a mystery to this day, but is generally assumed to have come to rest in the Skymirror Sea, as much of the Mii'res ambush involved simply dragging crusaders backwards into the water, allowing them to be weighed down by their armor.
Life
1326 AS
1408 AS
82 years old
Circumstances of Death
Killed in battle
Children
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