Txakao Ba'rrut

Txakao Ba'rrut, also known as the Silent Teacher, was a Hesperdian man known primarily as a founder of the Faith of the Encan. He is reputed to have had telepathic gifts, which he used to spread his message of the Shender Encan.

Early Life
Txakao was born in the Cleban city of Matxo Petxa (MA-choh PEH-cha) ten years after the death of Esh Kerrin. The year he was born marked the start of the second of the Wars of the Scions, a period within the Txashikan Era which saw the fledgling unity and peace Esh Kerrin obtained crumble in the squabbles of his descendants and plunge the Hesperdin into another dark age. This Second War of the Scions stemmed from the conflict between the Greater Scions, (Esh Kerrin's appointed heirs, comprised primarily of his nephews and three of his closest confidants) led by Kar Ba'Txan, and the Lesser Scions (the heirs of Esh Kerrin by custom, his sons), led by Txer Kerrin Ba'Esh. After the Lesser Scions triumphed in the first war, executing the appointed heir Madxa Kerrin and sending the surviving Greater Scions into hiding, the Greater Scions shifted tactics from straightforward pitched battle to a system of proscription of officials. As such, the Second War of the Scions involved frequent assassination of nobles, resulting in unprecedented vacuums in leadership all across the Cleban Hesperdin.

Txakao, thus, grew up seeing nobles, mayors, governors rise and fall in a matter of weeks, with only the strong and the clever surviving.