Serha Yakur

Serha Yakur, son of Dashiin ai-Yakur and Andraste, is the cursed main character of ''Brother, Son, Shadow. ''Born between his father's death and Cloud Mountain's fall, he grew up a hunted refugee, the last trace of an old dynasty being destroyed by the restored Sultanate. The last of Cloud Mountain's soldiers to fall, Serha was not granted a peaceful death, and a long-quiet curse placed upon his father's bloodline tore him from the Reaper's stomach and sent him to a time before his own birth.

In his second life, Serha struggles with reconciling his own death with those he lost being still alive. When he flees internecine conflict within Cloud mountain, he gladly buries his own memories under the persona of Tamur, a freelancer from the Riverlands. However, his own skill in illusion magic reinforces the persona beyond his control, and it takes the intervention of both Conchobar, sworn enemy of Cloud Mountain, and Nora Glassheart to restore him to himself.

Early Life
Serha was born to Andraste not long before Cloud Mountain's fall, the last of the Yakur line. He grew up in the company of the Mountain's surviving elite, with such famous names such as Batu, Yan-Kye, Emmen, and Alani, not to mention the illustrious veil of his mother. He learned sorcery from his mother, swordsmanship from Emmen, and lived his entire life at the edge of battle.

Adulthood
Serha was the lone apprentice of Emmen to master his sword style, and in an act defying the futility of their years-long flight, received Emmen's own tattoos on his right arm, to match the Yakur tattoos on his left. He also bore skill in sorcery, aided by his mother's witchblood in his veins. His particular specialty was in inflicting area-wide darkness, and thereby forcing enemies and himself to fight blind.

After Death
Upon dying and waking up in a forest, Serha assumed he had reached the afterlife.

Early Life
Tamur grew up a farmer's son with a passion for hunting, not beholden to any major clan. After his parents' farmhouse burned in a war between clans, he turned to the life of an unaffiliated fighter-for-hire. This made him expendable fodder to a major clan or a cheap option to anyone with work to do.