Chafin I

King (692–703) was the sixth monarch of the. Chafin was the eldest son of Kabe and took the throne during. He was a competent strategist and managed to maintain the war as a stalemate despite the failure of the and  campaigns. He determined that the assassination of Queen Eriel, Kandáy’s ruler, would demoralize his enemy and win him the war, and he ordered her murder by the. The assassination was successful but did not have the desired effect. was outraged when the assassin, captured and made to confess, implicated Chafin in the crime. Kandáy then mounted a determined campaign to win the war, which ended in its favor with the Peace of Selvos in 697. Looking for scapegoats, Chafin had Ezar murdered in 698 and showed much disfavor to the Order of the Crimson Dancer, forcing the order to leave Réthem and emigrate to in 701. Having made so many enemies inside and outside Réthem, Chafin was unlikely to survive long; he was assassinated in 703 by unknown assailants.

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