The Battle of Varakait (1393)

The Battle of Varakit (Murai: Var'akit Zharan) was fought between the forces of the First Empire of Ishan, led by Princes Khorakhol ve Arkhos and Khotan ve Khasa, and the Nirai Mirakhai Khaganate over the course of four days, during the Nirai conquests of Ishan. It took place in late Kairan'i (August) near the Var'akait ((Akait Gates) now known as just "Varakit"), a narrow passage between the Khatari and Akaiti mountains. This was the last major incursion of the Nirai into the Ishani heartlands, having already subjugated much of the Murai homeland around Lake Kairan in the last decade.

Despite unrest in the heartlands, the ailing Empire sent a force— small in number— as a response, being deployed under the command of Princes Khorakhol ve Arkhos and Khotan ve Khasa. These two-thousand men, comprising of men from Clans Khasa, Arkhos, Sherkoz, Hailun, and Hazhai, faced a foe of fifty-thousand swords in number under the command of a man known to history as "Tsarakh".