Ry'ah and Myrai

In the legendary chronicles of the anari, the epic of Ry'ah and Myrai is the story of the seminal founding of the united anari tribe of peoples. The primary account of this story is the Ralasho Collection, written many centuries after the fact. The setting entails that many hundreds of years after "Kaura the Great's conquests", the Alujari was the most powerful tribe of the Ardan because they had subjugated and enslaved the tribes of Qrivadu, Zuari, and Yaveli.

Brought up as a prince of the Alujari tribe, Ry'ah was in his early life a spoilt, unscrupulous and decadent man. He delighted in heavy drink, pursuit of women and the playing of games. Although, even from this early age, the unfairness of the mass subjugations sat ill with him, though he did not show it openly among the nobility.

Myrai was a lowly slave of the Yaveli tribe. A servant girl renowned for her beauty as well as her kindness and understanding, she was brought up under her master Lassar, who showed her that not all slave masters were cruel and uncaring. Yet a fire still burned in her heart, the intense longing for her liberation and that of her people's.

One day, a