Husrak h’Assar Ha-Qayyet

Husrak h’Assar Ha-Qayyet (6 August 1864 - 27 December 1913) was a Haksar military and political leader who eventually reigned as the first and only dayashafir of the Restored Haksar Dayashafirate. Born to a minor noble family, h'Assar achieved a great series of military successes during the First Haksar Revolution, catapulting him into prominence as the de facto leader of the nationalists. He was Shurain-Kheif, Ruler of All Haksarad and Regent of God from 1898, and was named dayashafir in 1900. He revolutionized military theory in his time and was personally undefeated in battle, considered to be one of the greatest military minds in history.

H'Assar was born in Gorram, which was, at the time, within the sphere of influence of Edury through the Eduran Expeditionary Company and its alliance with the local aristocrats, who were ascendant in Haksarad since the conclusion of the Coffee Wars and the subsequent civil war in 1811. He graduated from the Republican Martial Academy in Edury and, upon his return, became a leading member of the Haksar Restorationist Club. When nationalist forces within the Haksar military seized power in 1894, h'Assar sided with the revolutionaries against the collaborationist aristocracy and their Alutran allies, firing upon Eduran forces in Gorram. From there, he began a march south, routing the Edurans from ports and forts as he made his way down the coast. After the provisional government in Jaliyah executed King Dasbad in 1895, a split formed in the nationalist forces, between those who supported a restored and independent Haksar monarchy and those who supported the complete dissolution thereof. However, in 1898, having humbled the Alutrans and arrived in Jaliyah, h'Assar had himself coronated. Two years later, having destroyed any resistance from among the revolutionary forces, he was named dayashafir.

In declaring himself dayashafir—the first Haksar monarch to do so since the Coffee Wars—h'Assar had claimed authority over the whole Jarader world. While many Jarader nations recognized this authority, many did not. Among those who aligned themselves with the Restored Dayashafirate were Agarad and Esharat, and these nations joined h'Assar in his war against those who rejected his claim. The so-called Restoration War raged all across Harad, northern Skephon and southwestern Alutra, with Haksarad and Velorenkya coming to blows in Esharat. In 1905, Haksarad occupied Duomo, giving them control of all trade to and from the Abayadi Sea and drawing the ever-increasing ire of the Alutrans, leading to the outbreak of the First World War.