Ytinise

Ytinise was a female Human who was the ninth Tulkon. She was born in 448 AT in Usybork City, Ilois Empire. Her birth was the result of Tulkon Rum's death at the hands of the Ilois Empire during the Dwarven Genocide.

Ytinise's parents were anti-expansionist activists who opposed Grytu's regime. Grytu killed her parents and adopted her as his own, training her to become a killer and raising her with the belief that the Tulkon's duty was to serve the Empire (this lie was also spread throughout the Empire and was part of Grytu's Imperial Doctrine; non-Iloisa Tulkons were not acknowledged in the education system). When she grew, she participated in the destruction of Ynofora and led the campaign of the Garden Continent.

In 471 AT, a number of events shattered her perception of herself and her country. She witnessed the execution of an Orc family by her soldiers, leading her to question the ethics of her actions as Grytu's general. She also discovered that she was adopted after her parents' deaths. She then had a vision of Rum, who told her of the true purpose of the Tulkon. Ytinise had a change of heart and returned to her native Uzybad to right the wrongs of the Iloisa. She started a coup and founded a new nation, the Usybork Republic. With the help of allies like Balgro (with whom she was briefly romantically involved) and various commanders from the other nations, she destroyed the Iloisa Empire by 476 AT and imprisoned her former adoptive father. Despite her disowning of Grytu, she would maintain positive relations with the some of the surviving members of the Imperial Family, who had stepped down from their positions mostly peacefully.

Ytinise fully ended the Iloisa Empire after conquering a remnant in Phocachirsk. She removed all human colonies from former Dwarven territories to allow the Dwarves to recover. She also pulled human colonies from Däe, which belonged to the elves, and established a small country called Nyfo Ynoforia for survivors of the destruction of Ynofora on the Däe peninsula. Ytinise later designed a plan for the Usybork Republic to be broken up into the Republic of Independent Human States, which was carried out by Tulkon Bodor centuries later. The Demons nearly returned after the Iloisa Conquest, but Ytinise's peacekeeping abilities prevented them from reemerging during this turbulent period in history.s

Ytinise died of old age in 550 AT. She reincarnated as the Orc Rogeduze. Ytinise remains one of the most beloved Tulkons globally. Elements of her life were dramatized in the play Conquest of Love, which focused on her relationship with her ally Balgro.