Roxolan
Roxolan | |
|---|---|
 | |
| President of the People Rally Party | |
| In office 1929–1951 | |
| Governor of Abshturia | |
| In office 1949–1951 | |
| Rahban | |
| In office 1946–1948 | |
| Deputy of South Gülam | |
| In office 1930–1933 | |
| President of Shirazam | |
| In office 1915–1929 | |
| War Minister of Shirazam | |
| In office 1911–1913 | |
| Third Marshal of the Second Republic | |
| In office 1888–1911 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 July 1863 |
| Died | 2 June 1954 (aged 90) |
| Political party | People Rally Party |
| Spouse | Ariana |
| Occupation | Military officer, politician |
Roxolan (4 July 1863 – 2 June 1954) was a Shirazamite general, revolutionary, and politician. He contributed to the creation of modern Shirazam, served as President of its third republic and as Rahban for the Fourth Republic during the War of Sin. He founded and led the People Rally Party, a movement from which all current Despotist and Caesarist parties find their roots. Popular and populist, he was a staunch defender of the Republic but one of Democracy most ardent opponents despite serving a mandate in the House of Deputies where he was commonly nicknamed "The Enemy".
Early Life
Roxolan was born on July 4, 1863 in the modern district of Southern Gülam, in the west of Shirazam. His father, Oxar Begzada Ruslan, was a respected clan leader of the Harulads, a Erron tribe that lived a nomadic lifestyle to the south of the Gülam Heights. His mother, Adyana Elistina, was the daughter of a Mangud Chieftain who had been married to Oxar as part of a larger alliance between the Harulads and the Manguds during the Gülam War and the anti-Zilung tribal resistance.
At sixteen years old, Roxolan and some of his friends fled the Aletheic Seminar he had been placed in by his parents to join the rebel group led by one of his cousins. They lived in the Steppe as bandits and pariah, organising ambushes and raids on the gold mines and railways. In 1882 they were caught in an ambush and his cousin was killed in the ensuing firefight. Roxolan, wounded, was arrested and placed in Shirkal penitentiary. There, he met Zavir Khakestari, co-founder of the Front for an Ayar State and other political prisoners. He was persuaded to join the FAS, Zavir notably hoping that his relations with the tribes would help create FAS cells in the Steppe and improve the Party' network before the incoming Revolution.
In 1886, Roxolan managed to escape his prison and flee back to the Steppe. There he found refuge in his mother's family and made contact with the few FAS agents and cells already active. He managed to convince the Manguds to participate in the incoming Uprising despite their lack of interest for the constitution of an 'Ayar State', promising them revenge against the Zilungs and that the ownership of the goldmines and pastures of Mangudia would be returned to the tribe.
He then returned to the Harulads where he established his own FAS cell. He was unable to convince the Chiefs to follow him in the incoming Uprising, but a great number of young Erron joined the FAS. In 1887, he married Ariania, an Erron girl and sister of one of Roxolan' late brother in arms.
The Second Republic
The Uprising
Roxolan preparatives did not go unnoticed by the Zilung government. This and other mistakes in the FAS preparation allowed Zilung Chen to be alerted of the incoming uprising before it could be fully prepared. Batraz Khan Shazadeh, leader of the FAS, decided to launch his coup anyway. In 1888, all the groups tied to the republican project, and not just the FAS, collectively proclaimed the creation of the Second Republic of Shirazam and the independence of the country. All accepted Batraz as the new Leader of the Republic and nominal Commander-in-Chief of the Revolution, Roxolan included.
But Roxolan and his own revolutionaries had to face the Zilung military reaction. The Steppe thus saw direct fighting between the Nomads led by Roxolan and the Zilungeses. After two years of successful warfare agains Zilung Chen, Roxolan called for a grand tribal gathering in which almost every tribes of Manguds, Errons, and Karluks were represented. This Grand Assembly appointed Roxolan Jangshah or 'Warchief' of all the united tribes. Placed in front of the fait-accompli, Batraz agreed to officially recognize Roxolan as 'Third Marshal' of the Republic, one of the most important military leaders of the Revolution.
State building
In 1911, the state of Zilung Chen fully collapsed and Shirazam was de-facto liberated although it lacked international recognition. Roxolan' views on the direction the Republic should take were confusing for his contemporaries. He vocally opposed the Oligarchic idea of limiting the electoral bodies to free land-owners or educated scholars, and ardently defended the idea of an Universal suffrage open to both sexes. But at the same time, he wished to see a two-tiered legislature, openly denouncing Deputies as a whole to be "politicaly incompetent" who needed to be "reigned it for the safety of the Nation". In this matter, he ran contrary to the dominant opinion within the Democrat movement.