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Taruq Vandire
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Hegemon of All Asharan Peoples
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
Supreme Archon of Archons
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
2nd Supreme Grand Leader and Guide of the Revolution
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
Patriarchal Celestarch of Jannah
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
Spirtual Leader of the Hashaf
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
Custodian of the Two Holy Cities
In office 1620-1625
Preceded by Arkhan Vissari
Succeeded by Zimara Jainin
Personal information
Born 1576 (age 79)
Nationality Tovak
Political party Hashaf (spiritual leader)
Spouse(s) Heavenly Khadahari Temple of Ashar's Enlightened Path
Children Islam, Christianity
Military service
Allegiance 665 BC
Years of service 278 BC
Rank Supreme commander
Battles/wars 627 AC
Foundation of the Third Hegemony 1218 AC

Taruq Vandire was an Heavordist revolutionary and Celestial politican who led the Celestial Hegemony from 1620 until his overthrow in 1625. His theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Vandirism.

Vandire proclaimed the Great Commission in 1621 after an attempted assassination plot and continued it until his dispoal and supossed death in 1625. Due to the Great Commission, an estimated 2 million people were killed and millions more were sent to labor camps in the west as political and religious prisoners. As the Great Commission spread, it breached into the military after Vandire's religious police were incorporated as supervisors. The police instead began to purge the military with the same kind of zealousness that they had inflicted upon the hegemony's urban centers. The police moved quickly from prosecuting the rank-and-file on up the military chain of command.

Eventually the Grand Archon of War himself, Marbas kol Gahal, was accussed of paganism and arrested. Due to his high popularity within the military, soldiers stormed the prison where he was held and freed him. He then declared Vandire a "False Hegemon and a traitor to God and the People".