Sacrolash the Great

Sacrolash the Great, otherwise known as Astraar the 1st, Sacrolash the High, Lekarion, the High Emperor, the Father of Conquest, the Good Maker and amongst the astraari folks as the Father of all men was the first and last emperor of the United Realm of Men. He lorded over the vastest empire ever known to men, that covered much of the Yshan forest to the west, what is today the Khalaani Country to the east, the entirety of the Riverlands and all the valleys contained in the crater of Arko. A mighty conqueror and a brilliant statesman he united the small human states in a formidable nation bound by the thirst of expansion, and founded the human nation when the Sehras were still endlessly warring, far to the North in the Midlands.

Convinced that he was destined to guide humanity to civilization, Sacrolash strove to elevate an almighty nation that would reunite the human kingdoms of the entire continent under his banner. After some important victories in the North that left the Dunaar people strained and inches away from a crushing defeat, he suddenly led a foolish expedition to the west, wishing to crush the Empire of Aldin and thus establish a sole human nation on Khadash. The expedition through Yshan, however, proved an absolute disaster, and Sacrolash found his utimely death a thousand miles away from his mighty empire, blinded by his foolish dreams, and ultimately unsuccesful to build a lasting human nation. The United Realm of men lasted another sixty years after his death, and eventually wasted away in a bloody civil war.

Although most of Sacrolash's legacy was lost and his empire broken up in smaller kingdoms, his memory lived on as a relic of human greatness and all the ruling families of Naïas, Lineroth, Ostreggar and of the later created kingdoms of Koshan and Toxo have claimed to descend from his bloodline. In Astraari folklore, he remains a central figure of the Great Narrative that the kings of the Riverlands have summoned as the historical purpose of their kin. A name known to all mortals, men and otherwise, Sacrolash has fed the imagination and fantasies of entire generations, transforming historical reality into an undying myth that seems both a praise and a warning of humanity's hollow dreams...