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Shakhan, known in the Japanese version as Sharkhan (シャーカーン, shākān), was a greedy politician in league with Solaris who was obsessed with power. He became a cardinal in the increasingly divided Ethos organization, and the figurehead leader of Aveh.
Biography[]
Shakhan was once a minister serving King Edbart Fatima, Bart's father. In 9987, during King Edbart's fruitful peace talks with the Kislev Empire, Shakhan led a successful coup d'etat with the help of Gebler, destroying all efforts to end the ongoing Aveh-Kislev war.
Wanting to know the true nature of the Fatima Jasper, Shakhan and Gebler had members of the Fatima royal family interrogated using truth serum and torture. King Edbart, Bart's father, and Great Mother Elvira, Margie's mother, killed themselves before they could be injected with truth serum, while Baron Francis, Margie's father, died from severe torture. Queen Mariel, Bart's mother, died from the shock of learning that her family had died.[1]
Bart and his cousin Margie did not escape this treatment, with Bart in particular whipped and beaten. Despite this, they were able to keep from revealing anything due to a strong hypnotism technique passed down in the family, which locked away all memories relating to the family's secret treasure for thirteen years. Until the memory block could wear off, Bart and Margie were locked away.[2]
The former prince Bart and his cousin Margie were locked away until they were rescued one month later by Sigurd and Bart's retainer Maison, using the Yggdrasil to escape.[3]
Shakhan formed a military alliance with Gebler forces in order to maintain his rule as the new self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Aveh, as well as to bolster his forces in the newly reheated war with Kislev. He aimed to expand Aveh's territory into Kislev's own, expanding his empire.[4]
Xenogears[]
After Aveh falls to Bart, Shakhan attempts to claim vengeance by defending the Ignas Gate near Nisan, which was one of the gates the group needed to destroy in order to stop the barrier that keeps Solaris inaccessible from the rest of the world.
During the battle, Shakhan receives "The Power" from Grahf after that latter said that power was superficial. Despite the boost to his Gear, he is still no match for Bart's newly recovered Omnigear Andvari and his allies. Shakhan's Gear ultimately overloads from the power it was draining from the Gate, and Shakhan dies in the resulting explosion as the party flees.