Giv (گیو)

Legendary Iranian hero who spends seven years wandering around Turan looking for Key Khosrow — which is either loyalty or the world’s most intense unpaid internship — and somehow actually succeeds in bringing him back to Iran.

Along the way, Giv marries Banu Goshasp, daughter of Rostam, creating the kind of alliance that makes enemies nervous and family dinners deeply intimidating. Also worth noting: she’s not decorative royalty; she’s a fully armored warrior who could probably win her own epic if given five minutes and a battlefield.

Giv then serves as a top commander during Key Khosrow’s long, apocalyptic revenge tour against Turan, because apparently closure is best achieved through decades of war.

In the end, he doesn’t retire or fade quietly into legend. He just disappears in a mystical snowstorm alongside the king. No explanation, no epilogue. Even the Shahnameh occasionally shrugs and moves on.