#there’s no way the language didn’t change enough in 1000 years to become completely incomprehensible
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lylethewaterguy · 18 days ago
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Okay I need Rani to come back cause I can’t just keep making up shit in my head and mentally treating it like canon
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viohra · 4 years ago
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Zin Śeva Serinov
[z̪in̪ ˈɕe.və ˈs̪e.rɪ.n̪ov]
Also known as “Zin”, “The Fist Zin”, “The Seveth Zin”, “The Last Serinov”, “Serinov”, and a host of other variations of his name with military ranks, Śeva was born in 1893 ADK (after the death of Koiđu) out of wedlock into the Serinov family, one of the richest and most influential clans in Elensia. His mother was the youngest member of the family’s main branch and his father was the son of a poor Kentic baker and lived near the Serinov estate. His maternal grandfather had both the baker and son killed for the disgrace. Śeva was then named Śeva (which means nothing but sounds like Ševa meaning potato) and sent to a home where all the bastards and other ill-begottens of the family were sent and was trained to become an officer in the military, as was custom of Serinov bastards: to bring glory or die, either way is good for the family.
Śeva was sent to the Elensian war college at 16 and graduated 8 years later with the equivalent to a doctorate in military strategy and sent to the navy with the rank of commander.
At this time in history, Viishy technology was around the same level as the 1950s on Earth and the Elensian Empire and the Naru Federation (a large Shumer country on Taiva) were quickly sliding toward war with each other and a few other powerful nations. The greatest issue, however, was the vast ocean between the continents made aircraft unable to strike without refuelling and ships were too slow to conduct tactical strikes. Magic was being severely hindered by each nation’s antimagic fields. The only answer was to capture the northern continent of Sevkra which had never previously been settled (the Sevkra Ser were largely unknown at this time) due to it's inhospitable environment and the fact that attempting to settle it was considered an act of war to the other nations. The reasoning was that Sevkra was in a perfect strategic position to launch attacks across the entire northern hemisphere.
So as a young commander in charge of a corvette, Śeva was apart of a fleet tasked with protecting cargo vessels. In winter 1920 ADK, the Naru Federation invaded Rjånbjä, then simply called “Urjon”. Urjon was an ally of Elensia, causing Elensia to go to war with the NF. Śeva’s fleet was the closest to NF shores, so they were dispatched to assault the NF industry city Kashem. Śeva’s fleet was poorly manned, poorly equipped, and even worse poorly commanded and was absolutely devastated, but able to deal a blow to the NF’s most valuable navy yard. Upon returning home, Śeva was made admiral for his actions (and name) at the age of 34. As admiral he was charged in securing Sevkra as Elensian territory.
The moment his fleet breached the No Man’s Land parallel, the already unstable political situation of the world exploded in a full world war with four complete independent sides. After many battles Śeva was made Grand Admiral of the Northern Fleet (GANF) and secured Sevkra and sank the last of the NF’s Northern Fleet in the same week. The war then shifted to a war of most of the world versus Elensia which ended after one year, close to a billion deaths, and much of Taiva destroyed as Elensia signed an armistice with the country of Vasta from south Taiva, a world superpower at the time.
It's also important to note that Śeva was very adept at magic, to the point that it was not possible to classify his abilities, making him the 17th Unclassified Viishy to ever live. Koiđu was the first, and in a way, the 17th as well because Śeva was the reincarnation of Koiđu. Śeva inherited the same reality manipulation magic as his old soul too, but he simply didn't have the thousands of years of experience as his predecessor. He could, however, hear and see his predecessor who — for the lack of a better term — haunted him. Koiđu was angry for not being able to completely die and now “living” as a shadow to a war-hungry child pissed him off even more, so at times he would torture Śeva for kicks, making Śeva manic, depressed, sleep-deprived, and addicted to pain medication which at first was used to treat headaches.
Once Śeva came home he was made Marshal of Sevkra, marshal being a social position in Viishy society that is both civilian and military — it's a position you're either made as or elected to and gives to immense political power and extrajudicial privileges that varry country to country, they are basically a caste of untouchable social elite that does as they will without consequence. The English translation “marshal” comes from the misunderstanding that it was a military rank and not social caste that simply outranked military ranks. In Elensia there's a tradition that when you become a marshal, you are allowed one action without repercussions that doesn't affect the royal family. So Śeva chose to have the entire Serinov family publically executed including all branches up to 3 generations. This was a suggestion by Koiđu who never expected Śeva to do it, so Koiđu was surprised by this as well. The last two of the family to die were his mother and grandfather, who he had burned while making them perceive time as such that for them, they burned for millions of years. It was then he became feared as The Last Serinov.
Upon exploring Sevkra, Śeva discovered the Sevkra Ser living in elaborate caves beneath the snow and ice. He was surprised to find they spoke a language similar the Ser in Taiva, had similar cultures, and called themselves Ser. Koiđu then told him he placed a community of Ser on the continent to see what would happen years prior to his death, and it seems they did well to survive. Śeva then started working with them to establish the underground capital megacity of Voden and Kavo, both located in Ser population centres as a gesture of good faith. After a few decades, the Emperor told him to either kill the Ser or sent them to Taiva. Śeva was infuriated because unlike his family which lived off the backs of the poor and were a key aspect of Elensian corruption, the Ser were a peaceful innocent people. So instead he teleported to the emperor’s palace and killed him with the very sword the emperor gave him upon becoming marshal. Śeva declared independence of Sevkra from Elensia and went back to Voden to prepare for war.
At the time most of Sevkra was military and their families, most of whom supported Śeva and already saw him as a better leader than the emperor, so the assassination and declaration of independence was celebrated by the majority of the new nation. The war between Sevkra and Elensia lasted 5 days with Elensia losing hundreds of thousands and Sevkra suffering only from 323 deaths and 108 injured due to Śeva fighting with all his powers and saving much of his force from experiencing the battle.
After the war, Śeva established a system of government where there was a democratically elected president, a prime minister, and a parliament, a democratically elected judicial system, a mostly democratically elected marshaldom, and a oligarchy of 7 marshal-chosen members with equal political power that can for any reason make absolute political changes and who rule of the marshaldom body. These 7 are all Grand Marshals with six of them assuming the name of the Titan they “politically represent” and the seventh member being the Grand Admiral or Supreme General who is leading the military at the time (this person is temporarily made Grand Marshal). Śeva made 431 people marshals and they elected him among the 7 oligarchs of the nation. This is where he adopted the name “Zin”, just as his predecessor Koiđu had.
Much of the next 1000 years or so he spent in relative peace. Koiđu eventually “fell asleep” and would only be awake for brief moments every hundred years and Śeva moulded Sevkra into a nation so powerful, no nation ever attempted to attack it. Sevkra technology became extremely advanced and after the advent of space travel, they became known as creators of the most powerful and advanced starships. Śeva wanted to explore the cosmos as Koiđu had, so he stepped down from being Zin and gathered a team and set out to explore. He found many planets terraformed by Koiđu which he settled in the name of Sevkra and also established bases on moons and asteroids. He then set out alone and found a moon above a gas giant that was large enough for the plans he had. Inside this moon he created the largest ship to exist (or ever exist). Upon returning home 1500 years later, he was elected again as Zin, this time the seventh Zin.
He wrote a book titled “On Magic” under the pen name “Varik”, but it wasn't well received— critics called it “completely and utterly incomprehensible” and “most painful to read than be murdered by the hardcopy version” and it fell into obscurity until it found its way into a certain person’s hands. The book also contained a code on where to find his ship.
After another 500 years Śeva felt done with life and tried to succeed where Koiđu had failed, leaving a note that read “Y’know what? I rate it 3,5/6 stars at best.” He succeeded a little better than Koiđu.
3,5 became the name of a political party that voiced policies that Śeva would've supported.
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