Sadees the Sunmaker (The Stormlight Archive)

"All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win."

- Sadees

Summary
Sadees, also known as Sadees the Sunmaker, is an ancient king of Alethkar who reigned about 500 years before the True Desolation, and was the first to unify the kingdom after the fall of Alethela; and is a majour figure in Rosharan history as a whole.

Little of his life before he began his conquest is unknown, however he began his conquest to reunify the disparate provinces that once made up the fallen Alethela around the yeat 672. In order to collect the various Highprinces under a single rule he made use of an entire company of cavalry, with legendary speed and maneuverability. After completing this task and claiming a mandate from the Almighty, Sadees crowned himself king of a united Alethkar.

This rise to power led to the overthrow of the Heirocracy, a theocratic government headed by the Vorin Church. He questioned the ardents about their claims of prophecies from the Almighty, and fought against them in the War of Loss. This ended with the rule of the Vorin Church being overthrown and the Vorin Church was broken into various Devotaries.

With the Hierocracy defeated, the Sunmaker turned his attention to a conquest of all of Roshar. Beginning his conquest with Herdaz, a relatively small nation north of Alethkar, which he completed successfully. After this, he turned his eyes westward and he conquered his way to Azir in western Roshar, then under the rule of Prime Aqasix Snoxil. It is here where he could commit many atrocities which would gain him great infamy outside of Alethkar. He claimed that the Azish were barbarians which did not properly respect eye color they needed to be conquered and civilized. Unable to leave a city behind with a force of fighting men, Sadees instituted a policy of genocide against the Azish, giving many arbitrary decrees about who should be killed, such as ordering all men with hair beyond a certain length be executed. Other times he ordered each of his soldiers to kill a specific number of captives each day. It is said that Sadees brought about the death of 1/10 Azish peoples.

As his conquest continued, Sadees suddenly fell ill with an unknown disease and died.

Upon the Sunmaker's death, his empire did not last long, for he had yet to choose an heir, and his ten sons could not decide among themselves who they wished to support. This quickly led to infighting and the empire collapsed within less than a generation. Rule over outside nations such as Azir and Herdaz died out, leaving them once again sovereign, and Alethkar devolved into disunified Princedoms.

In modern Alethkar, Sadees is revered as a cultural hero, praised and beloved by the Alethi people, even having the Sunmaker Mountains named after him, and acting as the main inspiration for the Second Reunification of Alethkar by Gavilar and  Dalinar Kholin, but outside of Alethkar, especially in the various member states of the Azish Empire, he is despised and his tyranny and slaughter of their people remembered with great solemnity.

Powers and Stats
Name: Sadees, The Sunmaker

Age: 17 at the start of his conquest, Unknown at time of Death

Gender: Male

Classification: Commander, Tyrant, King of Alethkar

Powers and Abilities: Soul Manipulation and Durability Negation via Shardblade, Possibly Weapon Mastery with Shardblade

Shardblade
He bonded with the Shardblade Oathbringer.

As a Shardblade, it does not act as ordinary blades in that they do not cut living flesh, but rather effervesce and pass through it, leaving the flesh unharmed and instead cutting the Spiritweb itself. If the Blade cuts the core of a person's limb, the person feels a flash of incredible pain and then the limb turns gray and becomes limp and numb. If an internal organ is pierced by a Shardblade, it may be killed or cease to function. If the spine or head is cut, the eyes of the person blacken and burn out with a dark smoke rising from them.

When cutting through something not classified as alive, they still cut far better than any other sword, able to cut through any non-Invested material with relative ease. A cut from a Honorblade, or even a Shardblade for that matter, leave distinctive perfectly clean cuts.

It is summoned through the Intent to summon it, and takes ten heartbeats to manifest. This is not a set period of time, and it can summon in a longer or shorter period depending upon his heartrate at any given moment.

Authority
He holds a great amount of authority over his subjects, and he is able to order them to do many things for him. Even able to have them commit great atrocities in his name. It is through this authority over armies that he was able to spread his authority further across Roshar.