Bonus - Mongol 5: The Shaman
The History of China
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The Imposter of the Great Khan
The Persian historian, Jus-Jani, writes that Tabtangri was so puffed up with his own importance after the success of his pretended revelation that he began to entertain ambitious views for himself. He knew probably better than most that the Khan, markedly unlike most of his ilk, held and innate distrust for his close kin. Tamajin had been betrayed time and again by his blood relatives, and had instead forced lasting bonds with those relations of his own choosing. It was with this in mind thatTabtangri began to needle at the oldest and closest of the great Khan's kinship ties, that to his second brother Hasar.
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