Amidralem Selyn

Amidralem Selyn, known as the "Harbinger of Prosper" is the 3rd son of Mansi and High Chief of Taküri tribe.

956
Amidralem was no common tribesman. While having no official ethnicity, due to him being the son Mansi, whom also did not had officially ethnicity, he claimed himself being mongolian. Which were not believable, due to everyone knew he was son of Mansi. He was fed up, then he basically shot a mongolian noble, from the famous Buriateng family. This made everyone real angry, and he was exiled from Mongolia. He escaped to China. There, he would read about Sun Tzu, mastering the sword, he travelled to Tibet, where he tried to convert to buddhism that also failed. But after hard training of many months, he decided to return to Mongolia, for redemption. He would challenge for a dual another noble from the Buriateng family. However that noble, was Tsöneglin, the current head of the family, also another swordsman, an excellent swordsman. But Amidralem born with an inhumane understanding of his environment. And they were dueling in the Gobi desert. This would mean, something for him, but not for Tsöneglin. This meant, that Amidralem had to drink a lot before fighting. Also he wore a light armor. This would give Amidralem advantages and disadvantages. An advantage was that he could move faster, but one mild cut could cost him his life. However the duel had came. Amidralem walked away victorious. However at this time, his last name was not known, but he picked up the name Selyn. Also this duel made him a better swordsmen.

972
Amidralem was reading about a book from Bon Kun about an old language, that it was claimed it was impossible to learn. He immediately took interest in learning the language, and he quickly learned in 3 months. Then he realized something. Calling back to Bon Kun's book, it was mentioned that this language would evolve into a language that would change the "Western Lands" forever. Yes, it was the Indo-European languages. But this language was still alive, it was not dead. It was very old, and it has stopped evolving due to it's near extinction. However, Amidralem was up to revive this language, but the problem is that he had little to no support. This when he came up with the idea of uniting the mongol tribes under one ruler. But the problem was that alone, he was unable to do that. So he decided to get help from the weak, but organized Ögerjin Tribe, whom would support and press Amidralem 's claim. This would be the starting point for the unification, but there would be one problem. The gathered warriors were inexperienced. Amidralem made a both suicidal, and smart move. Instead, he would make the warriors a meatshield, knowing them they would die, or most of them do. In the meantime he would lay covering fire for them, by bows even though he was not exactly good with it at that time. But he succeeded. He forced the Bördei Tribe under his rule.

973
Amidralem was ready to attack the Tibral Tribe, with the same tactic he used to subjugate the Bördei Tribe under his rule, but this time he was more accurate with the bow, but there was a problem. This time, the enemy commander, Sainmu, was more accurate with the bow than Amidralem was, thus making him taking an arrow to a knee, a very bad injury, for the normal bowsman, but it was just an annoying thing for him like acne was. He pulled the arrow out of his knee without thinking twice, then shooting Sainmu 2 times in the arm, 1 times in the forehead, and 3 times in his eye. There was another problem though. His warriors were dead. Only him being left. This is where he tried one thing out that would another suicidal thing. Riding a horse, while shooting enemies with a bow, with no experience. However, he was lucky that he was still fighting in the Gobi desert. He won this battle as well, bringing the Tibral Tribe under his rule. From this time, he would need to conquer 2 more tribes, but instead of actually conquering them, he offered vassalization for them. Due to his victories in the past, they accepted.

974
Amidralem was appointed as a High Chief for the Taküri Tribe, however this would not stop him from conquering non-mongolian land, which he needed in order for that language to be revived. In an incredibly short amount of time, spending conquering lands, or diplomatically intimidate tribes, he finally founded the Selynic Empire, the second largest empire in Eurasia's history. He claimed the title "Töügöün", which would literally means "Great Conqueror". However, Amidralem knew he was not immortal, so he decided to get some immortality, but before that he reformed that language that Bon Kun's book mentioned, and in response, the native speakers renamed the language to the Selynic Language. But this as well, granted him a very good reputation, that would he had no reason to ruin. A few months later, the native speakers of the Selynic language, was interested making Amidralem immortal, but only if he made the language official. He agreed, and now by an ancient ritual, he was made immortal, completely immune to physical and mental damage, and also immunity to diseases. By now, he made the Tengri religion official, and punished those who were following a heresy, or a heathen religion, by an unrelenting furious force of execution. However there was a problem. Who would lead the empire, once Amidralem would abdicate? This is where Almanaz Selyn came into existence, Amidralem 's only son, coming from an unknown mother.

981
Amidralem expanded his empire to Eastern Europe, only to be bordered Poland, whom was lead by his brother Mieszko. He did not attack him however, because it would be considered extreme downfall for his reputation. And basically, despite he did not seen his brother for his entire life, he still respected him. But Esmeinichev didn't. He was the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, otherwise known as Germany and Italy, he attempted an invasion of Poland. Amidralem immediately came to Mieszko's aid, and he and his hordes basically steamrolled the organized armies of Esmeinichev. However the man himself would be executed, alongside with his son, but his grandson, Emmereich, would be spared due to him did nothing to the rest of the family. However in Asia, Amidralem took the opportunity to conquer China, Minor Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. This would give the Tengri religion place to spread, alongside with the Selynic language. However, he did not stop here. He taxed the church harshly, taxed the poor poorly. Also he encouraged people to be blacksmiths, due to the lack of equipment in the Selynic Empire. However, he didn't succeed every time he wanted to. He was struggling to take the Kazakhs and Constantinople.

985
Amidralem took the opportunity to hire many mercenaries, and alongside with his hordes of cavalry, he sieged the walls of Constantinople. The battle took about 8 months, but it came out as a victory for the Selynic Empire. This would mean devastating news for the Orthodox faith, because now their main city was in the hands of Selynic tribesmen. However, the religion continued to live, but it has been not the same since Amidralem took the capital city of the Byzantine Empire. Although this was great victory, the defeat in modern-day region of Kazakhstan showed them that they are not perfect, and they are vulnerable to heavy infantry. However, he had something in his mind. He proposed an idea of breeding superbuff horses, so they can retain speed, meanwhile carrying heavy archers, whom were wearing steel armor. This would give many problems. if the archers would fell off the horse, there's no chance that they could be recovered. Also in the same year December, Amidralem gone to visit Hungary, also a tribal realm that were also following the Tengri religion. However during his time, he was caught in a set up, and he was destined to be executed a day later in Székesfehérvár, because of illegal ways of getting immortality. Before getting executed, he was sent to the Pope to remove Amidralem 's immortality.

986
Amidralem, after 1 year of existing in the Afterlife, he was sent to Doom, directly to Sitbasyev's court, and it was agreed there that he would be not able to return to the Mortal World until at least a 1000 years have passed. He was obviously furious about this, and after several weeks of dealing with Rom, the Demon of Religions, it was agreed that he would escape through the Garden of Torzak, the Chief Demon of Torture. However the garden itself was very much a place that even weaker demons could suffer. But Amidralem stood up for the challenge to cross the garden. However after crossing a garden, he entered the Pocket World of Sotaverisurm, a place where everyone is at war with each other since it was created, but there's no clear winner. It is just everyone versus everyone, but everyone keeps coming back. However, Amidralem just went through this place like "sup everyone". Then he would found himself in a situation where he was walking in the void for many many years to come.

1187
Amidralem walked out of Doom, but before he leaved Rom waved him a last goodbye, and then he gone back to Sitbasyev's court. Amidralem however was shocked that his empire collapsed, due to his descendant, Druzer Selyn's bad leadership. He quickly took the opportunity to make things right. When he gone back to the capital, he seen many statues of himself. But people were shocked that he was still alive. Many would instantly recognize him. Others would tell that this is bullshit. It was not. Amidralem confronted Druzer Selyn, he was deeply disappointed about that his descendants could not hold such amount of territory he did. In response, many would attempt to kill him with many failures. Now the 251 years old Amidralem Selyn, reunited his empire once again. But however he heard about a certain descendant of his, destined to be a great leader. This did he not ignored, and expected pretenders trying to claim his title. But according to his law, that was still standing, claiming titles could not be done, unless it is done through duels. Whoever gets hit first, loses. And many knew that Amidralem was great with sword and bow. So no one could took his title in that way. Amidralem quickly retook Minor Asia, including Constantinople, Central Asia and some of Eastern Europe.

1188
Amidralem 's return wasn't unnoticed in Europe. Most of the rulers would laugh it off, but a few of them, mostly descendants of him would be very aware. One of them was the Archduke of Austria, Stefan II von Selyn, he would have been claimed as crazy, until he spoke the truth. Amidralem sent letters to the powerful rulers of Europe, which would many of the rulers would be shocked by. Thanks to his interesting handwriting, it was immediately recognized that it was him. And they knew he would wreak havoc on Europe for a second time. This time however, he was not alone. Many of his descendants would join his cause, to get revenge, for they removed his immortality and destroyed his empire. Amidralem did not target individuals, except for the Pope. He would not call this a victory until he is dead. This was such an ambitious goal, that even Mansi supported this. Amidralem and his descendants, and Mansi pillaged and destroyed Europe entirely. He reached Rome. He killed Pope, he went away. Once this was over, Amidralem went, and continued to be a ruler. However, he didn't stop there. He remade the Tengri religion official, the Selynic language official, and made everyone have a job. An extremely proper way to return to the Great Throne. He still did not stop here. He imprisoned those whom didn't spoke the Selynic language or didn't practiced the Tengri religion, or both. The military was greatly improved in quality and size as well.

1190
Amidralem established the largest army to the age, a total amount of 5 million soldiers to be exact. And with that, the Selynic Empire was ready to conquer the Far East, and possibly a large portion of North America. But before he did, he established a military police in every single place where more than 100 people lived. After that however, as mentioned, he subjugated every single tribe that that huge amount of soldiers could find. But they came across a problem. They didn't know what resistance to expect, so they prepared for the worst. And so it was. Amidralem, alongside 5 million soldiers crossed the Pacific Ocean, and landed in Alaska, and instantly began pillaging the land, and exterminating those that opposed them, but they spared those whom were too weak, or unable to fight back. And in the first time in known history, an expedition to the Far West was successful. Not only it was an expedition, but it was conquering. They had to stop in Alaska however, due to the low amount of supplies and the unexpected freezing weather. And thus, the Selynic Empire conquered Alaska, and to be the first transcontinental empire to do so. The only problem was however, that getting supplies to Alaska was a very hard thing to achieve. Amidralem came up with the idea to build a bridge between the Far East and the Far West. But the problem was, no one ever done this before, and the water's depth was unknown, and the harsh weather made it even harder.

1196
Amidralem had to face a crusade against his empire and set up hundreds of miles of well prepared defense positions, and when the crusading forces showed up, he have sent hordes of people on the forces. This would make the crusaders struggle for a while before ending up in a big problem, as they seen no way to break the defensive lines, and soon, they have fallen into a retreat. Amidralem have led his personal armies to chase down the crusaders, which they did in the city of Vienna, a city that was sieged for months, before surrendering. This would mean Amidralem that Europe is a weakened place full of weakened kingdoms who cannot stand such threat like he posed. This gave himself an idea of conquering the entirety of Central Europe. The problem was that the power in Central Europe was split by Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. The good thing was, none of them stood a chance against Amidralem and the Selynic Empire. When the people near the borders of Amidralem 's empire have heard massive hordes of horses with heavily armored men are heading into their directions, they knew that their life would turn extremely bad, and they were correct, as the Selynic forces have burned down 480 settlements before reaching to the capitals of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire, eventually inserting them into the Selynic Empire.

1201
Amidralem have started to look up to north, as the finnish tribes were plotting to unite and they had similar plans to conquer vast territories. Their plan failed as they will find themselves to be a part of the Selynic Empire. After this, Amidralem have focused on rebuilding the vast lands he have conquered before. But as the lands was so vast, he simply didn't had enough money to rebuild it all, as it would cost an insanely huge amount of money that he didn't have, despite being the richest ruler at the time. This meant for him that he needs to get even more money. He did so, by invading China, but he weren't expecting a big army, similar to the one he has, but it is less about cavalry and more about a little bit of everything, and the chinese had some weird looking weapons that were able to shoot some weird small steel projectiles that weren't effective, as they didn't time to reload before getting overwhelmed. When Amidralem and his forces were near the chinese capital, they simply burned it down as they didn't need it, and with this, China once again became a part of the Selynic Empire. The problem of Amidralem was still standing as he still was in need of money.

1207
Amidralem have heard the news that the mongolian tribes in Mongolia became united under someone they call Genghis Khan, and they revolted. Amidralem did what he could, however, it was kind of late as the mongolian tribes have already took over China, Central Asia and Minor Asia, but fortunately, this didn't scare Amidralem as he have pooped scarier things than an extremely powerful revolt. The two sides have seen daily fights, even between the peasants and nobility, as the arguement about who was better. Unfortunately, a fatal loss for the mongolian tribes in the Battle of Xiangjing, when Amidralem had the idea of using spears against the incoming horde of cavalry. This made everyone shocked, as it was obvious that Amidralem would lose his power. They were wrong for a while, until the european powers have decided to invade the massive empire from the west. Amidralem had to deal first with the massive rebellion, then deal with the european forces invading. The mongolian tribes would hold out for another 4 months, before surrendering.

1208
By the time Amidralem have suppressed the largest rebellion he have seen so far, the invading forces from the west, mostly french and bohemian, were already near Kiev. This is when he decided to use horse archers to remove the invaders from existence, with the side effect of a temperature drop of 2.3°C. It was not long after that the sides have met near Kiev, Amidralem have already predicted the enemies of his retreating. He was correct, due to soon as he thought that, the enemies have started to retreat, with his armies chasing after them, but chasing them himself. They ended up chasing them so far, that they have founded themselves in Paris, effectively conquering a large part of Europe. A treaty was signed in Rome that no one will attack them from Europe if they return the Holy Roman Empire into existence and return every territories they have conquered past Hungary. It was agreed, and now Amidralem could improve his empire, as the majority of the population is still homeless and many have been forced to live extremely primitive lives.

1215
Amidralem have witnessed as his empire turns into a wonderful place, due to not waging expensive wars against expensive people who like to waste money on wars. Homelessness became extremely rare and the overall mood was happy. It made everyone kinda suspicious, as the Selynic Empire was never in such a good mood before. When some people went to investigate it, seen that nothing happened, just a slight side effect of a prospering peace, and calmness. However, this wouldn't last long, as the alaskan colony in the Far West have been kind of forgotten and they have declared independence. But as they were so insignificant, no one cared, due to Alaska being nothing more than trees and snow and more trees and more snow. However, Amidralem have read books about the atrocities of walls the avars have built hundreds of years ago, and he kinda wanted to do the same to keep Europeans away. But as the wall built by the avars got demolished, he had to build a new one, that would take 7 years, despite it is large size, it was easy to build for the time, as the advanced tactics the Selynic Empire have invented when it comes to architecture and building buildings.