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Radyani (N)
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Nabhâsh
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T.A. 2,972 - Unknown
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Female
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Tuvâl (N), Waznînya (N)
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Radyani ruled as the Târabi ("Matriarch") of Îshra in the closing years of the Third Age.
History[]
Radyani had been the daughter of Tuvâl, the Daraskôn of Zîrsish who became the first Târab (Patriarch) of a unified Îshra. Her mother had been Waznînya, an illegitimate daughter of Kâwakâwam, High Priest of the Tayb. Her dynasty had been called the Lavrajyatantê.
Radyani's uncle, Yâttakhânda, long attempted to sway her to the Khyan religion centred upon Zarîyah, but Radyani refused to stray from the Tayé pantheon and, in particular, from her personal goddess, Yóm. Her mother had groomed her to be proud and unrelenting, and she aimed to unite the splintered realms of Zîrayn against the encroaching Arienists. In T.A. 2,999 her father was strangled in his bed. As his only child, Radyani became the new Târabi. Many voices were eager to claim her ear, yet Radyani proved headstrong and independent and forged her own course. At first she raised the banners of war against her south-eastern neighbours who had long refused to yield to her more diplomatically minded father. She planned to unite Sîrayn and to drive the Zarîyahnists back into Khy.
Soon after her campaigns began, she was roused in her sleep by a whisper which she believed to be from Yóm. She perceived an assassin in her bedchamber, a fate she held had been foretold in a dream. Before the would-be killer could act, she drew a blade she kept ready and leapt upon him, killing him. She then saw a chain about the assassin's neck bearing a sun-shaped pendant and, to her fury, recognised him as one of her own guardsmen.
Radyani concluded that Yâttakhânda had plotted her death. She declared her uncle to be her ultimate nemesis and her resolve to destroy him and his sun goddess grew firmer.
Radyani raised a great host, almost as large as the forces of the Rashânashân of Khy. During her campaigns some dubbed her a warmonger, others called her mad or possessed by a spirit of malice and bloodthirst, but her followers regarded her as a liberator, a leader who broke chains of injustice and brought hope to the oppressed.
She united Zîrayn, though in time her enmity with Khy abated and the two powers about the Bay of Ormal settled into an uneasy peace for much of her later reign. Her heirs proved unable to keep the realm intact, and Zîrayn fragmented again in the following generation.
References[]
- The Lord of the Rings: Realms in Exile
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