Arnavaz (ارنواز)

Arnavaz, one of the two daughters of Jamshid, alongside her sister Shahrnaz, born into what used to be a golden age before hubris showed up and started dismantling it from the inside.

Jamshid rules at the peak of prosperity, then decides he’s a god. Which is usually where things stop being stable and start becoming a cautionary tale. He loses his farr, that divine legitimacy everyone relies on but no one fully understands until it disappears.

And once it’s gone, the system doesn’t stay empty for long.

Zahak arrives.

Serpent-shouldered, Ahriman-influenced, and very efficient at turning collapse into occupation. He takes the throne, and with it, Shahrnaz and Arnavaz are captured and forced into his harem. Not as political figures. Not as guests. As part of the machinery of control.

Their world becomes survival inside someone else’s tyranny.

Then Fereydun enters the story.

He storms Zahak’s palace while Zahak is away and finds both sisters alive inside it. Not untouched, not unchanged, but still intact enough to be reached.

He frees them. “Purifies” them, as the tradition phrases it, which is doing a lot of work to describe the process of undoing what prolonged captivity and fear leave behind.

Shahrnaz and Arnavaz respond not with silence, but with clarity. They give Fereydun what he needs most: intelligence. Zahak’s weaknesses, his movements, his structure of power. Information shaped by lived experience inside the system he’s trying to destroy.

Armed with that, Fereydun defeats Zahak and binds him to Mount Damavand. Not killed, but contained. A tyrant turned into a permanent problem that can’t act but also can’t fully end.

Order is re-established. Or reassembled. Or restarted under a different name.

Fereydun takes both sisters as wives, folding liberation into the architecture of the new rule. A reminder that in this world, even after tyranny is removed, power doesn’t disappear — it just changes configuration.

Arnavaz gives birth to Iraj.

And so the lineage continues, carrying forward not just victory, but the next set of inherited consequences.