#kaartshaahin heshatani

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The second major family is the Heshatanis:

The most 'heroic' of these two are Vishori and Agati, a super-soldier made to destroy planets and the setting's equivalent of Frankenstein's monster as an artificial lifeform (and green, to boot!) and the equivalent of the head of the KGB or director of the FBI. That tells you something about the rest.

The first of them to really be focused on the story at any chronological level is Darshandrin Heshatani, a master of the electromagnetic force and one of the Four Lords of the Architects of Fear. Also the master of the Four Lords of his time. Darshandrin is an oversized Roes'in for his species who has a stout frame that even without the rest of his powers would qualify him as an extremely dangerous individual and with them means that he's got raw physical abilities and the power to command the electromagnetic spectrum (meaning among other things he can hijack communications and unleash gamma ray bursts). Darshandrin was dedicated to a classical Lovecraft villain's goal of encountering the eldritch powers that sustained the universe, and did exactly what he wanted and he and his wife are now ever-living and ever-tormented inhabitants of the empire-entity of Azarath.

They have three children, the eldest of whom is Shandrin Heshatani, the master of the Weak Nuclear Force. He happens to in other words be a very literal walking atom bomb and a WMD analogy, which is why his own sons have this same quality as well in different fashions. Shandrin is the Imperial greater-scope villain of the story, who made a bargain with a terrible Daemon and willingly allowed it into the Empire and the consequences of this are what set off the setting proper. He's a dour murderous fanatic deeply beholden to the Architects' own codes, one of the most powerful metahumans to ever exist, and fully aware of it.

He has two sons, one is Yrvin Heshatani, who is a telepath and telekinetic to Dark Phoenix proportions (who is the Lex Luthor to Xaderavcal's Superman, he, not she, would have been the greatest power if she didn't exist and the same petty envies that drive Luthor drive him). He's also a brutish thug who uses portal tech to cross dimensions and indulge in a lengthy and protracted rape and murder spree whenever it suits him. He is one of the most morally repugnant characters I've written and his main flaw, like that of the character that inspired him, is a monstrous arrogance leavened by complacency.

His brother Landro wields plasma, and is in relative terms the weakest of the family in metanormal terms if one of the most dangerous in other ways. He's essentially the Architects' equivalent of Internal Affairs, the Watcher of the Watchmen and accordingly an inventor and a master of super-tech that makes him feared even by entities who are much mightier than he. And relative to Yrvin he's the Mycroft to Yrvin's Sherlock, Yrvin is more social and more open with his loutish thuggery but Landro is much more sinister and takes even greater joy in what he does.

His younger sister Keshri commands the strong nuclear force and is called the Star-Kindler, as she can literally....kindle stars. Complete with the gravitational distortions as well as heat. Even with the Architects the legacy of the Age of Legends means identifying with a body of starlight is the equivalent of Xipe Totec cults or the generic Hollywood Satanist. She also has ASPD, or its equivalent in an alien species and it's very much not a superpower but she's so absurdly powerful that the Architects are caught in a trap of their own making with no way to get out of it.

She has three children in turn, two daughters and a son. The two daughters are Etashri and Kaartshahin, and both of them inherited their mother's powers and are in a perpetual spiral of competition. The son, Arzhandzhir, is a reality-warper who's the least sadistic of that branch of the family but is perfectly callous and monstrous in his own way, as the power behind the throne manipulating his sisters and his mother with his own powers making him one of the few who'd dare.

And then there's the youngest, Agati Heshatani, who's got his own powers that have a WMD analogue. When he gets angry he gains four feet and a thousand pounds in mass, becoming a colossal muscled force where the madder he gets, the stronger he gets. He transforms in a flash of light and due to mastering the idea of a tranquil rather than a berserker rage (though at times this can slip and when it does it's very much AGATI SMASH PUNY EMPIRE) and is fond of using his transformed state to 'interrogate' people with the idea of facing a colossus who's an unstoppable force and an immovable object all in one.

He's the equivalent of the head of the KGB, his rival Azazteti Kavtrulin is the equivalent of the head of the GRU.

His daughter is Vishori Heshatani, the aforementioned Frankenstein's Monster equivalent and a femme lesbian. Who happens to have her own shadowy secrets and among all of them is that she, Xaderavcar, an agent and relatively normal fellow of her father's named Vuhl H'ven Dugara who didn't sign up for this shit and is stuck in it anyway, and a seer who's a hybrid of the Khair and Trarh-Khanir, Meremi, are all tied to the God on the Gilded Throne as her Oversoul. Occasionally someone too clever by half tries to take one of them as a hostage to bargain with the Urhalzantrani walking virus.

It goes messily if she's deranged and it goes much more horrifically if she's lucid.

The Heshatanis are in their own way a dynasty and a mirror of the Empire and of its imperialism, the raw architects that helped to create it and those who took that technology and pioneering spirit down its darkest and most unhallowed corners.

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