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Leo SunSun, Leo (Lio) Korn (1071-1100 A.D.) Born to Mongolian shepherds in the lower Himalayas, Leo (Anglicized form of Lio)Korn (The Wolf King) Sun (Sun clan) on October 18, 1071, led a short and violent life. His parents were brutally slaughtered in their sleep by Imperial soldiers from the western Himalayan grazeland clan of Zanibir for refusal to pay collection fees issued by the Chieftain, Lord Zanibir (The Viper). Lio was 14 years old at the time, and though stabbed through the heart and left out in a snowstorm to die, he was saved by an old hermit named Curi (The Fox). Curi raised him as his own son, and taught him the ways of the long blade. By age 22, Lio set out on a quest to assassinate Lord Zanibir and destroy his clan. He gathered the remnants of the Sun clan and forged an alliance with the eastern plain Mark clan, and formed the Mark of the Sun Alliance. Lio defeated the Mark leader, Chieftain Burmi, in a ritual duel, and was rewarded with the title of Lord Chieftain at age 26. He made Burmi second in command, and general of the army. The Mark of the Sun first clashed with Zanibir forces on August 2, 1098 at the Battle of Saturan in the northern Himalayas. Lio Sun's forces ambushed a Zanibir convoy and killed 90 Imperial soldiers. Subsequent battles followed, with the Mark of the Sun gaining strength with every victory. He enlisted those who surrendered, but without mercy executed ones who would not, in the Mark of the Sun ritual fashion, two slashes across the throat followed by diesmbowment and castration, then burned to death at the stake. By Spring 1099 the Mark of the Sun had pushed the Zanibir Imperials so far deep into their territory, within 10 miles of its capital city, Mutin, that Lord Zanibir started to contemplate surrender. He appealed for peace, but Lio refused. Lio's forces, numbering nearly 20,000, laid siege to Mutin on April 12, 1099. He called Lord Zanibir out for a man to man negotiation. Lord Zanibir complied, meeting Lio on the field to negotiate. With one swipe of his broadsword, Lio eviscerated Zanibir and dragged his corpse back to his front, impaling it and raising it upon a wooden staff for all to see. With that one gesture, Mutin surrendered, and submitted to Lio's control. His legions swelled as he was named the Lord Chieftain of the Lower Himalayas, and Lord Protectorate of the Mark of the Sun. With the fall of Mutin, his hold over the region (now the present day border between India and China) was complete. He renamed his territories the Empire of the Sun. Dissention, however, was among his ranks. His young lieutenant and right hand man, Cuplo Kan, swiftly organized a coup de'tat against his former mentor, using mainly captured forces loyal to the vanquished empires. On January 2, 1100, Lord Leo Korn Sun was assassinated at the first meeting of his new Imperial Senate, triggering a civil war that lasted for 36 years, dubbed the Himalayan Highlander War. His body was laid to rest on the coast of the Indian Ocean, in an undisclosed location.
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