Ghazril the Diviner

In the year 5107ey, the sect that was started by Ruwallah the Lawgiver was expanded and given its permanent status in Southrun society.

Ghazril, Sultan of Byza, was himself the sixth son of his father, but the only one to survive his extremely long-lived father, and therefore became the unlikely heir to the Sultanate. Like many lesser sons, Ghazril was first trained in the divining arts because it was assumed that one of his five brothers would have the rule of his father's realm. He spent long days pouring over the manuscripts of his predecessors and betters. As a young man, this thirst of his for knowledge carried him into late nights of study and contemplation, as well as on long trips into the Khard to observe the movements of the stars.

When he ascended to his father's seat, he carried with him that desire for knowledge. He also brought the firm conviction passed on to him by the writing of many scholars that the discovery of Ruwallah had been accurate and true. In the third year of his reign, he entered the Khard, convinced that he could discover the Lake of Glass and the Obelisks that Ruwallah had claimed to discover. He left his responsibilities to his Uncle and took a retinue of 66 men with him on caravan into the desert.

Six months later, he returned, the sole survivor of the trip, with etchings made upon parchment from the same Obelisks that Ruwallah spoke of. Ghazril himself was also changed. His visage was aged many years beyond what seemed possible and a perpetual warmth exuded from him. Moreover, he had been struck blind by the brilliance of the truth he'd discovered. Many of his royal house believed at once.

But when Ghazril returned before the seat of his father in Byza, his Uncle would not step down as Sultan. Instead, he had him thrown into prison. There, in the cool of the dungeons, Ghazril taught his first students -- many of whom were to perish, but others, upon being released took the teaching of Law Which Cannot Change with them. By the time, that Ghazril died in 5191, there was scarcely a soul in Byza which did not know the teaching and clamor for its adoption.

As for the Uncle, he died the same day as Ghazril, by spontaneously bursting into flame as he was in his bedchamber. His servants found only a charred husk of what had been. So the house of Ghazril was ended forever, but his greatest contribution spread all over all Southrun and became the conscience of the Land.