Muzaffar

Muzaffar was a historical figure in the Great Red Sand, Sumeru who lived thousands of years ago and after being one of the Deys of Orghana pillaged several city-states that existed in the desert.

Story

Muzaffar was one of the Twenty-Nine Deys of Orghana (the city now known as Port Ormos).

King Saleb Dowleh, originally known as Goudarz, was somehow involved with Tulaytullah before his rise as king, although he later left the city to take up residence in Gurabad. Saleb Dowleh made an alliance with the port city of Orghana,^[4] although Muzaffar would later turn his back on both sides, killing Saleb Dowleh and his entire bloodline and deciding to permanently reside in the desert instead of returning to Orghana.^[5] His conquest of the Great Red Sand was full of pillaging and bloodshed. According to a Primal Obelisk "...He took the famed city Beit Raha and tore down its walls and towers... presented the head of Nasrul, the master of the city, before his brothers and comrades. They made mockery of it, and their joy was equal in greatness to its stench."^[6]

His son Zumurud became known as the Verdant Lord, whom Muzaffar had instructed to "leave as many heirs as a pomegranate tree bears fruits," and thus Zumurud had 99 children, consisting of 50 sons and 49 daughters.

Trivia

• Muzaffar's character and lore is largely based on the Sasanian king Shapur I, with his conquest of Gurabad being mainly inspired by Shapur's campaign of Roman Syria and the destruction of the city of Antioch. Shapur I took advantage of the instability within the Roman Empire to plunder numerous cities of its eastern part; Muzaffar, in a similar vein, takes advantage of the turmoil caused by the infighting within Saleb Dowleh's family to start his conquest.
  • Muzaffar's siege of Beit Raha is based on the Fall of Hatra, with "Beit Raha" being derived from the Hatran capital's old name, Beit Elaha (Aramaic: 𐣡𐣩𐣵 𐣠𐣫𐣤𐣠 bēṯ ʾĕlāhā, "House of God").

Etymology

• Muzaffar (Arabic: مظفر) means "the victorious" in Arabic.
• The title Dey (Arabic: داي; Ottoman Turkish: دایی dayı, lit. "maternal uncle") was used by the rulers of the Ottoman Eyalets of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, with a total of twenty-nine Deys ruling Algiers between 1671–1830. Those Deys took part in and sponsored the Barbary Corsairs, who were famous for raiding ships and pillaging European towns all over the Mediterranean Sea.
  • In the Primal Obelisk at Duat Hall, Muzaffar's title is given as the Dey Malik (Arabic: مَالِك mālik, lit. "king, monarch, or leader"), suggesting that Muzaffar was the leader or king of the Twenty-Nine Deys. However, no other piece of Orghana lore currently substantiates this claim, and Muzaffar left Orghana while the remaining Deys were all killed in a single night by a sea monster attack.^[7] Alternatively, "Dey" is being used to describe Muzaffar's origins; his son Zumurud's title, Verdant Lord, is similarly refers to his birthplace, Dharma Forest.

Other Languages

Language	Official Name
English	Muzaffar
Chinese (Simplified)	穆扎法尔 Mùazhāfǎ'ěr
Chinese (Traditional)	穆扎法爾 Mùazhāfǎ'ěr
Japanese	ムザファール Muzafaaru
Korean	자레브 Jarebeu
Spanish	Muzafar
French	Muzaffar
Russian	Музаффар Muzaffar
Thai	Muzaffar
Vietnamese	Muzaffar
German	Muzaffar
Indonesian	Muzaffar
Portuguese	Muzaffar
Turkish	Muzaffar
Italian	Muzaffar

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