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Tyri has been praised for transforming Senalan from a wartorn backwater to a prominent power in Meredonne, expanding literacy, industrial capacity, healthcare, education and life expectancy. Her government, however, was responsible for the deaths of millions of Senari through starvation and persecution, as well as the repression of many diverse Senari religious practices in favour of a single, unified cult. | Tyri has been praised for transforming Senalan from a wartorn backwater to a prominent power in Meredonne, expanding literacy, industrial capacity, healthcare, education and life expectancy. Her government, however, was responsible for the deaths of millions of Senari through starvation and persecution, as well as the repression of many diverse Senari religious practices in favour of a single, unified cult. | ||
===Early Life=== | |||
==Youth and Drafting== | |||
Tyri was born on September 6, 1936 in Tirynn, a farming village near the city of [[Teren]]. The only daughter of the most affluent farmers in Tirynn, Tyri described her early life as comfortable and relatively privileged considering her family's peasant status. The Tyri family were devout worshipers of the [[Spring Serpent]], the fertility goddess commonly associated with the Tereni Senari, and at the age of twelve Tyri was briefly considered as a candidate for ritual sacrifice to the Spring Serpent in Tirynn's ''[[Tsuna-Atsar]]'' celebrations. She was spared in favour of a healthier girl, as Tyri had developed asthma shortly after birth. | |||
During her time working with her parents at Tirynn, Tyri was an avid reader. She credited her father's gift of the memoirs of [[Southin Mylithis]] with kickstarting her political awareness, greatly admiring the murdered Warchief for his political and military brilliance as well as his often-stated adoration for the Old Senari League, which had, by that point, been defunct for over thirty years. Her political beliefs were shaped by a combination of her reading and the ongoing turmoil between the [[Teren|Tereni Governorship]] and the [[Goltiris|Priestly State of Goltiris]], two of the myriad factions fighting in the ongoing Bleeding Years. When she came of age at eighteen, Tyri was summarily drafted by the Tereni Grand Army in order to defend the state against increasingly ambitious attacks by Goltiris. She would not see her family again. Tyri later credited her drafting as a key moment in her life; she claims it was the moment she truly decided that she would do all she could to put the Bleeding Years to an end. | |||
==Markswoman: 1954-1956== | |||
Having ample experience with guns as a result of her agrarian upbringing, Tyri was quickly recognized by her immediate superiors as a skilled markswoman. She was credited with no fewer than fifty kills with a long-ranged rifle during her time in foot service; Tyri would later claim a figure of seventy-eight, though the extra 28 kills cannot be conclusively verified. The majority of her time would be spent holding defensive positions along the shores of [[Lake Teren]], a key front in the Goltiric advance. | |||
Fighting continued on and off for roughly two years; these long, protracted, gradual campaigns were typical of the mid-stage Bleeding Years. Towards the end of 1956, in service along the northwestern shore of Lake Teren, upon hearing about the death of her commanding officer, Tyri left her post to temporarily assume a leadership position and hold the line as the most senior soldier present. A short time later, as the Goltiric advance stopped and Teren declared victory, Tyri had received a number of commendations from her superiors for her leadership. She was promoted to the commanding role of ''Sword-Sayer'' following the conclusion of the Goltiric advance. | |||
Revision as of 13:26, 19 June 2022
Yelthiss Tyri | |
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 Yelthiss Tyri in 1963 | |
| Lady Protector of the Senari League | |
| In office 14 July 1963 – 8 August 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Myros Delkyni |
| Governor of Teren | |
| In office 17 April 1961 – 14 July 1963 | |
| Preceded by | Sourik Delenir |
| Succeeded by | None (Governorship dissolved) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mylakiri Tyri 6 September 1936 Tirynn, Teren Governorship |
| Died | 4 July 1998 (aged 61) Teren, Senalan |
| Cause of death | Brain cancer |
| Resting place | Yelthiss Tyri Mausoleum, Teren, Senalan |
| Spouse | Dyssi Mylai (m. 1968–1994) |
| Parents |
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| Occupation | Politician, farmer, military leader, political philosopher |
| Awards | Order of the Serpents (awarded by Lord Protector Myros Delkyni but declined by Tyri) |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Senalan |
| Branch/service | Army |
| Years of service | 1954-1969 |
| Rank | Warchief of the Senari |
| Battles/wars | |
Yelthiss Tyri (born Mylakiri Tyri; 6 September 1936 - 4 July 1998) was a Senari stateswoman, farmer, military leader and political philosopher who served as the first Lady Protector of the Senari League. She is referred to as the "Mother of the League" in Senalan for her role in the restoration of a centralized Senari government following a 44-year period of multisided civil wars. Tyri is unique among Senari political leaders due to her posthumous deification by the Priesthood of the Four Courts, owing to her pivotal role in their establishment as a political and cultural force in Senalan.
Tyri was the daughter of a prosperous peasant family near modern-day Teren. Drafted by the military of the Teren Governorship in 1954 shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she developed a strong desire to put an end to Senari civil strife, articularly influenced by the writings of Southin Mylithis, the pro-League Warchief of the Senari who attempted to restore the federal government to power before being assassinated. Seeing her military service as an opportunity rather than a burden, Tyri quickly rose through the ranks of the Tereni Grand Army, a meritocratic institution that saw itself as the rightful continuation of the defunct Grand Army of the Senari League. By 1961, she had risen to replace the ailing military governor of Teren, and she ultimately led the Grand Army to victory against all other remaining factions fighting in the Bleeding Years. By 1963, the Bleeding Years had ended and Senalan was again proclaimed.
Tyri is widely considered to be one of the greatest modern Senari leaders, despite constant postwar political struggle and health problems. Following the reestablishment of the Senari League, she remained in power for some 26 years thereafter in order to oversee the country's postwar reconstruction. She solidified her control through a series of land, cultural and institutional reforms in order to bring the country through its period of stagnation. In 1965 she declared the organization of the Four Courts, a centralized Senari priesthood directly affiliated with the state, formally banning all other forms of worship, and in 1967 she launched the Great Blossoming, a rapid and traumatic overhaul of the Senari economy that intended to drive it from domination by subsistence farming to an industrialized, production-based economy which resulted in a deadly period of famine and unrest rivalling the worst of the Bleeding Years. Her reforms marked almost a decade of violent class struggle and the development of a fanatic cult of personality despite controversies within and outside Senalan. Though she had seized dictatorial powers for herself by 1963, Tyri continued to assert that her ultimate goal was a return to the democratic tradition that defined the Senari League before its collapse in 1919. After publicly acknowledging a diagnosis with brain cancer in 1989, Tyri retired and permitted Myros Delkyni to succeed her as Lord Protector following a public pledge from the man to uphold her dream of an eventual return to democratic rule.
Tyri has been praised for transforming Senalan from a wartorn backwater to a prominent power in Meredonne, expanding literacy, industrial capacity, healthcare, education and life expectancy. Her government, however, was responsible for the deaths of millions of Senari through starvation and persecution, as well as the repression of many diverse Senari religious practices in favour of a single, unified cult.
Early Life
Youth and Drafting
Tyri was born on September 6, 1936 in Tirynn, a farming village near the city of Teren. The only daughter of the most affluent farmers in Tirynn, Tyri described her early life as comfortable and relatively privileged considering her family's peasant status. The Tyri family were devout worshipers of the Spring Serpent, the fertility goddess commonly associated with the Tereni Senari, and at the age of twelve Tyri was briefly considered as a candidate for ritual sacrifice to the Spring Serpent in Tirynn's Tsuna-Atsar celebrations. She was spared in favour of a healthier girl, as Tyri had developed asthma shortly after birth.
During her time working with her parents at Tirynn, Tyri was an avid reader. She credited her father's gift of the memoirs of Southin Mylithis with kickstarting her political awareness, greatly admiring the murdered Warchief for his political and military brilliance as well as his often-stated adoration for the Old Senari League, which had, by that point, been defunct for over thirty years. Her political beliefs were shaped by a combination of her reading and the ongoing turmoil between the Tereni Governorship and the Priestly State of Goltiris, two of the myriad factions fighting in the ongoing Bleeding Years. When she came of age at eighteen, Tyri was summarily drafted by the Tereni Grand Army in order to defend the state against increasingly ambitious attacks by Goltiris. She would not see her family again. Tyri later credited her drafting as a key moment in her life; she claims it was the moment she truly decided that she would do all she could to put the Bleeding Years to an end.
Markswoman: 1954-1956
Having ample experience with guns as a result of her agrarian upbringing, Tyri was quickly recognized by her immediate superiors as a skilled markswoman. She was credited with no fewer than fifty kills with a long-ranged rifle during her time in foot service; Tyri would later claim a figure of seventy-eight, though the extra 28 kills cannot be conclusively verified. The majority of her time would be spent holding defensive positions along the shores of Lake Teren, a key front in the Goltiric advance.
Fighting continued on and off for roughly two years; these long, protracted, gradual campaigns were typical of the mid-stage Bleeding Years. Towards the end of 1956, in service along the northwestern shore of Lake Teren, upon hearing about the death of her commanding officer, Tyri left her post to temporarily assume a leadership position and hold the line as the most senior soldier present. A short time later, as the Goltiric advance stopped and Teren declared victory, Tyri had received a number of commendations from her superiors for her leadership. She was promoted to the commanding role of Sword-Sayer following the conclusion of the Goltiric advance.