Warlord Burla'asin of the Great Flock

Lord of the Three Tribes of the Great Flock and All the Islands of the Ovinex Nation Burla'asin N'dekra

Burla'asin N'dekra - also known as Burla'asin I, Lord of the Three Tribes of the Great Flock and All the Islands of the Ovinex Nation - was an ancient and brutal Native Ovinex warlord who managed to fuse three major tribes into a massive alliance known as the Great Flock. At the height of his power, Burla'asin's reach was so great that it extended beyond the boundaries of his species' home islands. His alliance's slave-taking activities in Rostral C became so brazen that they sparked the Rostran-Ovinex War, eventually resulting in his death at the hands of Rostran mariners, the collapse of the Great Flock, and the creation of the Civil Ovinex subculture. Despite the harrowing and brutal nature of his reign and his hand in the diminisment of the Ovinex Island Tribes as a geopolitical force, Burla'asin remains highly regarded among many ovinex for being the ruler who presided over what some consider the golden age of their species.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Burla'asin was tall and powerfully built even for Ovinex standards and accumulated numerous scars over the course of his lengthy reign. Dominance in ancient ovinex society was often established through force of arms rather than personality, and Burla'asin was an influential warlord indeed.

Specialized Equipment

Burla'asin's signature ba'amba was a symbol of authority within the Great Flock. This weapon was purportedly peened into shape from the hardest ironwood on the island after it had been rendered supple in the blood of another fallen cheiftan. This crafting process stained the wood red and, once it dried and the compressed wood fibers were allowed to dry, is said to have rendered the weapon harder than contemporary Rostran metallurgy could accomplish. Burla'asin's ba'amba was inlaid with fragments of jade and the snare was adorned with charms made of felled opponents' teeth and small bone fragments.

Reign

The reverence some modern Native Ovinex feel towards Burla'asin stems from the fact that he embodied a fusion between the primal physical and spiritual force of ram rex with the ambition and foresight of a smart leader. The earliest precursors to the Island Rangers arose from Burla'asin's enforcers, giving him a tenuous connection to the still-living martial art of Gam Pfa'a. Though his reign was marked by a series of brutal conquests and an ultimately doomed drive quest to extirpate the much more advanced Rostran peoples, Burla'asin's reign between these conflicts marked a golden age of peace and prosperity for those who collaborated with the Great Flock - including an 80% majority of all ovinex alive in the Manifold today. With a strong body of warriors at his command and an iron resolve to eliminate pockets of disorder within his realms, but also a reputation for fairness and impartiality among the constituents of the Great Flock Burla'asin ruled by fear and respect in equal measure.
Though the death of Burla'asin marked the beginning of the end for the alliance, the Great Flock's ultimate demise was long in coming. The great warlord left a dynasty that progressively lost control of all the tribes he had once united. Burla'asin II of the Great Flock was an effective leader once grown, but was only a child when his father perished in battle, leaving time for dissention to grow amongst the other powerful males while he rose to his station. Burla'asin III, also known as Burla the Lame, was physically too small to assert dominance in the ovinex culture as it existed and, ultimately, left no heirs who could; upon her death, she was discovered to have been a freemartin who had simply masqueraded as a male heir to keep control of the increasingly fractious warrior caste her grandfather had built. With the N'dekra lineage broken, other powerful males jockeying for power in their own corners of the now-humbled Ovinex Island Tribes, and many allied families held hostage by the Rostrans (later to become the Civil Ovinex), Burla'asin's political legacy slipped into memory with a whimper.

Alignment

Lawful Evil

Species

Ovinex

Ethnicity

Native Ovinex

Circumstances of Death

Killed in battle against Rostran mariners

Sex

Male

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

White wool

Aligned Organization

Ovinex Island Tribes