Ezkrva 'Utiazrupanata-Xurgilgranarr was a legendary N'Akkiarlian Battle Commander who is famous among the N'Akkiarlian peoples for appearing in the war legend of Ezkrva against the army of thousands, a legend about he fought and defeated an army of Jussk'Ravgarok despite his army being outnumbered 20 to 1 during the N'Akkiarlian-Jussk'Ravgarok War about 32,000 years before the Great N'Akkiarlian War.
To the N'Akkiarlian people he was the embodiment of the fierceness and frightening appearance of their ancestors because of his tallness and his jet-black eyes which the Jussk'Ravgarok considered to be like looking into the eyes of death itself. According to the legend his appearance was so frightening that when a battalion of Jussk'Ravgarok saw him charging them they fled the field rather than stay and fight. He was also apparently one of the greatest combat masters in the history of the N'Akkiarlian species, how was so gifted in combat that the N'Akkiarlians regarded him as the physical embodiment of Drooxda 'Yuzra-Krongri (the N'Akkiarlian God of War). According to the legend he was also one of the greatest tacticians in history, his tactically-minded battle plans were so amazing he once defeated (what he is most famous for) a Jussk'Ravgarok army outnumbering his own by 20 to 1.
Biography[]
Next to nothing is known about his life but according to the legend the sky filled with meteorites when he was born (in N'Akkiarlian religion this means the N'Akkiarlian species will become great). The legend then skips his entire child-hood so it is not known where he learned his extraordinary combat and tactical skills and cuts straight to his military service against the Jussk-Ravgarok. The legend then describes his military service as a Battle Commander in much detail. Not much is known about his post-military life but according the legend he was given the great honor of becoming one of the Honored Sons of N'Akkiarl (the creme de la creme of N'Akkiarlian Society. He also got married and had lots of children, but his wife and children's names are not recorded. The legend then cuts to his death when the entire Empire went into mourning for 100 days and took ice-cold baths (a mark of respect in N'Akkarlian culture). As he died in the year 32,920 BBY he led the beginnings of the formation of the N'Akkiarlian Star Empire (also known as the Second N'Akkiarlian Empire) but he didn't see it at its highest, he died seventy years before the total conquest of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy.
After the mourning period ended a monolithic statue of him was erected which according to the legend "scraped the clouds". His personal body armor was jet-black and studded with blood-red N'Akkiarlian diamonds, it currently rests in his shrine on his homeplanet, N'Akkiarl Minor.
It has been stolen several times through-out history but all thieves have to date been caught and forced to endure the "Kruisk v'gardo" (Traitor's Death), the most painful and most dishonoring of all N'Akkiarlian execution methods. The Traitor's Death is reserved only for those who have committed acts of great treason against the N'Akkiarla, it involves slow-burning the victim to death—it usually lasted ten days but the record for the longest application of this torture stands at an amazing fifty days. Not only is it excruciating but the N'Akkiarla know that anyone who is sentenced to this execution is the scum of the species and have been shamed. After the traitor has been executed a death curse is put upon the traitor's family for eternity—only five N'Akkiarla have been sentenced to this execution in 10,000 years.
Legacy[]
To the N'Akkiarlian people he was the physical embodiment of Drooxda 'Yuzra-Kongri and was honored and revered as such. He was also living proof of their species' fierceness and frightening appearance. He is viewed as one of the greatest N'Akkiarlian who ever lived. Many N'Akkiarlians named their boys "Ezkrva" as a mark of respect and honor to him. He was also the Patron Saint of N'Akkiarlian Warriors. Because he was so great other N'Akkarla, even those born 33,000 years after he died refer to him as "Brother Ezkva".
Because of Ezkrva the 'Utiazrupanata-Xurgilgranarr family became celebrities for millennia, the family was still famous 100,000 years after Ezkrva's death.
Discovery[]
About 33,500 years after his death Ezkrva's very long mummy was discovered in a previously hidden tomb located deep within an underground cavern many miles in the middle of nowhere in a specially-built sarcophagus which had gruesome war scenes of the battles Ezkrva took part in chiseled and painted onto it as well as text describing his military career. In 2,100 ABY a team of archaeologists had hunted for him.
After reconstructing him during his life as a warrior using the latest in reconstruction software they had a life-sized statue of him built, this statue was placed in the middle of a square in N'Akkiarl City, where it stayed for at least 134,000 years. The statue became a place of pilgrimage for many to honor one of the greatest warriors in N'Akkiarlian history.
His ghost was seen a couple o times through the millennia wondering around the area where he was buried.
Ezkrva's Ghost[]
After his death he was buried in an underground cavern in the middle of nowhere (to stop grave-robbers), through the millennia there were accounts of his unmistakably gigantic ghost wondering around the area where he was buried. According to the stories his ghost largely spent its time in his unknown burial site but on occasion would come to the surface and wonder around the area.
There was a military legend that told that his ghost also appeared to before a major victory. An example of this legend becoming true was just before the Invasion of Koru Neimoidia, in which he apparently appeared to the N'Akkiarlian warriors, whilst a GFSS sailor told a story from around the same time in which Ezkrva's ghost appeared on the bridge of the GFSSNS Star Dragon, the flagship of the Koru Neimoidian Defense Force, and shouted at them in an unknown language. What the crew thought he said was written down and was later translated by a N'Akkiarlian, apparently his ghost said "Enemies of the glorious N'Akkiarlian Star Empire, prepare to die! You will be devastated!".
True enough, within hours the Invasion of Koru Neimoidia began and the GFSS defense fleet was crushed and the N'Akkiarlians landed lots of soldiers on the planet's surface which pushed the GFSS defends on the planet to the brink of defeat, the battle was a major N'Akkiarlian victory just Ezkrva's ghost had predicted.