Jelbe

[Zanz]

No Kurultai Will Be Held, No Khan for Jelbe

11 August 5680

BAOFLUZ - Onlookers in Jelbe and across Majatra and the world were startled by the announcement today from the encampment of the Gray Horde that no Kurultai would be summoned following the final defeat of Worldburnerist forces in March. Analysts had expected, as had long been tradition prior to the Worldburnerist regime, that Azi Mrlkaisrmko, the "Gray Bek", would seize the initiative granted by his military victories and be named Khan of Jelbe by a Kurultai organized by him for that purpose. Azi Mrlkaisrmko, it seems, has different plans for the peoples of the wild steppe.

In the wake of the capture of Jeztridomura, the Gray Horde has remained largely stationary. None remain for the Gray Bek to conquer. The encampment has been aflutter with the comings and goings of diplomatic plenipotentiaries, dispatched by Nrlgraké Bek to Wrnuke and Zardugal as well as places farther afield, with little clear on their mission. The announcement that Jelbe would hold no Kurultai seems to indicate that Jelbe, wrenched from its historical pattern by the WJZR, may be destined still for further departure from days past.

The Gray Bek's camp indicated that it would share more in coming weeks and months. Reactionary elements across the taghe responded with protest but little organized resistance - the Jeztaghenyr Jelbeks are in large part either arrayed behind the Gray Bek or long since settled by the Worldburnerists or slain by his horde. Time will tell what lies ahead for Jelbe.