Yelthiss Tyri
Mother of the League Eternal Protector of the Senari 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) |
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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) |
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| 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.