This is the main bad guy in Xiola: Sacrifice of the Sidian. He is a mighty leader who is conquering his way across Xiola. The son of a simple farmer, he fought his way through the ranks of Emperor Domon, finally commanding the largest army in the empire and taking over the kingdom in a mighty coup. He ate the heart of the Emperor, claimed lordship over all his lands and declared himself the God of the Rising Sun. He is now set on a quest to conquer all the known world. Only two great cities remain, Persa and Tamil. And between those two cities lies the desert people of Sidia about whom this story takes place.I've obviously got a Mongolian theme going on with this guy. I'm going to take Mongolian designs and reimagine them a bit, but part of my original concept for the story was based off Genghis Khan, so it is only right that I give credit where credit is due. I love the old European illustrations of Mongols as creepy headless people with faces on their chests, and other drawings of Mongols eating the hearts of their victims. All of Europe and Asia were so scared of the Mongolian raids that the Mongolians were dehumanized in their descriptions. They were thought to be demons.
Yet the Mongols, and especially Genghis Khan had their own strange views on right and wrong. And sometimes Genghis would even show mercy to those who fought bravely against him.
All of these details make for an interesting bad guy.
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