Kedir the Black

Taznikanze warlord, believed to have lived about 2500 WB. He created an elite corps of soldiers known as the "Toltensoldaten" ("Death Soldiers"), and set out to prove that they were the best fighters in the world. Kedir and the Totensoldaten took no territory, they simply wandered the Web and picked fights with people. Although they took plunder, the point was establishing that they were the most fierce fighters in the world--a reputation they definitely established.

The Totensoldaten were famous for their ferocity on the battlefield and for fighting with a weapon in each hand. In grand Taznikanze fashion, they fought naked, to show their contempt for their enemies' ability to harm them. Totensoldaten would even engage in ritual scarring and inflict wounds on themselves before battle in front of the enemy to show that they were totally immune to pain. On their chests they had the distinctive "swept cross" that is now on the Tasnican flag. It was probably Kedir the Black's exploits that led the Kracian Khan Ultra to declare the Taznikanze a race of demons. Following Kedir's epoch, the Taznikanze become even more sought-after as mercenaries, and when they went on sea raids ('going viking') towns would simply surrender and give them tribute rather than attempt to fight these beastial men from the seas.

Kedir often engaged in aristeia, in order to test himself against his enemy's very best. Often, if he was sufficiently impressed, he would later befriend his opponent. In one famous case, he defeated the Valkyrie Astrid, only to marry her.

To a certain generation of young people in the Web, Kedir is perhaps known as the main character of the anime Manaball Z.