Rhovynuc, also known as the Robber of Vels Domfan, is a Sarda Ruinborn bandit and folk hero who operated from 613 to 644. His real name was Yarhel Yonnasik.
History[]
Yarhel lived in the aftermath of the Dolindhan conquest of Sarda. Dolindhans were harsh overlords who demanded steep taxes and took away many liberties, to which many of the subjugated Sarda resisted by taking to banditry. Yarhel was the first of those bandits to successfully steal the Antler Horses ridden by Dolindhan conquerors, after a daring raid on Trom Throm Ranch, which he learned to ride together with his companions, creating the Ynn's first unit of mounted rangers.
Yarhel and his companions respected the Dolindhan ideals of chivalry even as they robbed their nobles, preferring scare tactics to violence, and gave much of their gains to the needy. Despite this, he earned a sinister reputation among upper classes, being likened to a Wendigo and receiving the name of Rohavy Buycev, from which Rhovynuc originated.
Rhovynuc's ultimate downfall came after he was betrayed by one of his own, and he was caught and executed in 644 under the reign of Gamelirn the Pious, after living through the reign of King-Emperor Joanseln, the First Ynnic Civil War and the reign of Empress Zeldja.
Rhovynuc is a heavily romaticized figure. Folk tales tell of how entire Imperial armies unsuccessfully scoured the woodlands of Sarda in search of this bandit, of how in his last stand Rhovynuc and his twenty loyal rangers slew ninety Imperial knights before being forced to surrender. Some tales go even as far as to suggest, Rhovynuc was never caught, and the emperor had a lookalike executed while the real one escaped into Veykoda, returning in the form of Jahanon síl Lethir a millennium later.