Amoratte Hasdrubilis

Amoratte Hasdrubilis (497-571 AGV) was a chief imperial engineer during the reigns of Rakho VII, Tudhan IV and Kharan II. He was a man of common birth, born into a modest family in Ašared. The city has been well-known for its weaving industry, his father also had a small parcel where they bred silk moths.

Being the first-born, and the only son, the family made considerable financial sacrifices to educate him. All three sisters were demanded to work in the business, while Amoratte was educated by the finest išha of the city. Originally, his father meant him to become a lawyer for which the young gentleman didn't show much interest. After the tutor convinced the elders, Amoratte became free to pursuit his dream to be an architect. He learnt both in his hometown as well as in several other major centers, until he was nominated to be an apprentice imperial engineer.

During this tenure, he was constantly travelling around the Empire, working at most a year at a project before being sent to another assignment. After he celebrated his 30th birthday he was nominated an court engineer, jumping the nominally requiered imperial engineer rank. For the better part of the next ten years he climbed the ladder, authorising several monumental projects around the capital like the renovation of Kings Mountain, the enlargement of the Great Arena of Kartam, a new aquaduct from the south and the construction of two bridges over the River Karam.

In the final year of the rule of Rakho VII he was named chief imperial engineer, but it wasn't until his son, that his trademark monument, the Walls of Tudhan, were constructed. His work became increasingly focused upon the defensive corridor, as such he neglected other projects before finally delegating them to inferior engineers. He survived the ruler, with whom he dreamt some of the greatest enterprises Hadašham has ever seen, just to die misteriously before his great work has been finished.

Amoratte was a brilliant mind living the life of an hermit. He never took a wife, neither fathered he any children. It is rumored, that he died a virgin. After he passed in his will the families of his sisters were made equal beneficiaries, bestowing his enormous fortune upon them.

The name Hasdrubilis is well-known in all corners of the Subcontinent. Among the Kartamese, it is even better known, than some minor emperors. Although he never saw the walls in their full glory, the largest construction of the capital forever immortalised the strange old man, without whom it has never been put up.