Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal

Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal

Enkhjargal al-Osman
Former Senator of the Lakes
Tenure began	1695 AN
Tenure ended	24.II.1734 AN (39 AN years)
Senatorial positions	Mother of the Senate (1722–1734) First Secretary of State (1716–1728; 1710–1712)
Senate(s)	VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII
Elected	1695, 1701, 1707, 1712, 1718
Faction	Humanist
Order of the Holy Lakes	Lines of Andelarion, Osman and Tahmaseb (all by marriage)
Physical description
Gender	Female
Species	Human
Race	Lontinian
Biographical information
Father	Erdenechuluun
Spouse(s)	Daniyal al-Osman (m. 1690, d. 1717)
Children	Temüjin Azardokht Aurangzeb
Date of birth	1672 AN (aged 66 AN years)
Place of birth	Ghawlama (then in  Stormark

Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal (born Erdenechuluuniin Enkhjargal in Ghawlama, 1672) is a Lontinian folk singer and retired stateswoman, having served as senator (1695–1734), acting prime minister of Hurmu (1720) and First Secretary of State (1710–1712, 1716–1728). She is widow of former Hurmu prime minister Daniyal al-Osman. In 1694, upon the reunion of the Eastern Ulus of the Silver Yak Horde into Lontinien, she was named the Chairwoman of the Executive Council of the District of Lontinien (akin to a local first minister for the devolved government), later assuming the title of Khanum and Viceroy following the victory of the Order of the Holy Lakes over the democratic resistance in Hurmu in the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict.

Biography

Early life

After her birth in Ghawlama, her father Erdenechuluun, was killed (the killers were never found, and the Storish authorities did not seem motivated to pursue the case), Enkhjargal's mother found refuge in the household of Temüjin, along with many other "broken" families. When Enkhjargal was 10 years old, she adopted a new patronymic, declaring that the Ghawetka tribe was her father. As such, her surname (which in Lontinian tradition comes first), was changed to Ghawetkiin ("child of the Ghawetka"). She calls Temüjin her grandfather. In the Ghawetka house, she developed a passion for singing folk songs. At the age of 12, she released her first album, and has released albums twice a year on average ever since.

On 24.VII.1690, after a six-hour meeting with her grandfather and the new prime minister of Hurmu, Daniyal al-Osman, she and Daniyal al-Osman announced their betrothal to one another. Their marriage was solemnized in Ghawlama, in traditional Lontinian rites, on 7.IV.1691.

On 7.II.1692, Enkhjargal gave birth to Daniyal al-Osman's and her son, named Temüjin Tokaray Erdenechuluun al-Osman. On 7.V.1694, she gave birth to a daughter. In celebration of the second birth the Hurmu Gate Company donated Doggo, the first animal test subject to survive transit through the rebuilt Hurmu Gate Network, to Enkhjargal to serve as a faithful guard and companion dog for her two children. In keeping with the traditions of the Silver Yak Horde, the daughter did not receive her true name until her third birthday - being announced to the world as Azardokht Boragchin Erdenechuluuniin al-Osman.

Political and corporate career

In the 1695 Parlerment elections, she stood as the second candidate on the Humanist List to the Senate. She became the first ethnic Lontinian senator in Hurmu. Re-elected in 1701.

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the ESB Aviation Group, a subsidiary of the ESB Group (Apollonia) with effect from 7.VIII.1703 AN.

Late in 1707 AN, at the age of thirty-five and not long after her re-election to the Senate of the Lakes, it was announced that Ghawetkiin was once again pregnant. The third child, a boy, was born on 6.II.1708 AN at Ghawlama General Hospital. In 1710 AN the name of this child was formally confirmed as Aurangzeb Daniyal Erdenechuluun al-Osman.

During the month of 1717 AN she suffered two blows in swift succession; firstly the disgrace of her eldest son, Temüjin Tokaray Erdenechuluun al-Osman, who had fled from his duties in Moorland after the discovery of his complicity in the Confederacy of the Dispossessed, and in the middle of the month by the news of her husband's incapacitation during a meeting of the Honourable Company in Aqaba. Although marriages were seldom made for love in the modern era, her relationship with Daniyal al-Osman had become a genuine life-partnership, to the extent that the taint of concubinage and extramarital affairs were almost entirely absent from their association. Accordingly the news of her husband's illness had stricken her markedly, and in consequence she applied to the Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Lakes for a dispensation to continue her duties from Aqaba for a time, until Daniyal's medical repatriation to Ghawlama could be arranged. Her request was granted.

Rulership of Hurmu

With the death of her husband on 13.XII.1717, Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal was faced with the prospect of abiding by his last wishes and assuming control of the Apollonian Directorate of the Honourable Company.

On 15.III.1720, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister absconded from their positions during the Raid of the Presidential House. Accordingly, Enkhjarhal, as First Secretary of State of Hurmu and thus third in line in the cabinet of Annika Raudsepp assumed command of the cabinet, immediately removed all SDP/CWP/HUHU members of it, and appointed a new cabinet to succeed the old one. The cabinet would, with the support of Nouvelle Alexandrie, the Benacian Union, and Çakaristan, lead the senatorial forces to victory in the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict.

Her reorganised executive would hold office until 1728 when it was replaced by the Secretariat of Ghawetkiin Enkhjargal.

Later life

On 7.VIII.1729 AN, after receiving treatment for the symptoms of gout, Enkhjargal al-Osman departed from Huyenkula for Ghawlama via the gates. Upon her arrival she was received by the representatives of the Benacian legation, the residency of the Honourable Company, cadres of the regional sector party of the CDH, and other notables of the city. Having departed the Lake District in the guise of a senator she was greeted in Lontinien in the manner of a Khanum and Viceroy, having doned the azure blue silken robes of a member of the Holy Order, the golden chains of office, and a silver diadem with an exquisite jade headpiece and a crimson velvet cap.

After departing from the gate station, the Khanum and her entourage embarked upon a motorcade which led a convoy of armoured vehicles from the Fyrð, Constabulary, and Vanguard Division, in a procession that led to the city's main Zurvanite fire temple. There certain rituals and rites of purification were observed before a further ceremony was held in the courtyard of the temple, where a yarliq was read to the assembled multitudes in the name of the Khanum appointing Aurangzeb Daniyal Erdenechuluun al-Osman as the Tarkhan of Ghawlama. After abasing himself in the dirt before the Khanum, his mother, he received from her the gift of an iron mace gilted in silver which was to be thereafter his badge of office. Thereafter Aurangzeb was left in the charge of the mobads who would attend to the further cleansing of his raiment and soul before he could be led before the sacred flame and girt with the sword of his father in the fashion of the Babkhan shahanshahs of old.

Once ensconced in Ghawlama, the Khanum promulgated a further yarliq summoning the notables of the realm to attend a grand legislative council. Delegates, and their retinues, were commanded to assemble at Khojinacinggha by 1.IX.1729 AN.

Retired from the Senate of the Lakes following the 1733 Senate of the Lakes election, after 39 years of continuous service.

Honors and Awards

• : Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Imperial State of Constancia (1722)

Preceded by: Li Naomiai	Mother of the Senate 1722–1734	Succeeded by Jaya Prabhu
Preceded by: Isabella III Güntherdohtor Merrick	First Secretary of State of Hurmu 1716–1728	Succeeded by Anastasia
Preceded by: Annika Raudsepp (as Prime Minister)	Acting Prime Minister of Hurmu 1720	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by: Linus Truls Thorgilsson	Deputy Prime Minister of Hurmu 1713–1716	Succeeded by Kartan Aadravik
Preceded by: Position established	First Secretary of State of Hurmu 1710–1713	Succeeded by Isabella III Güntherdohtor Merrick
Preceded by: Baltabek Nariman	Minister for the State of Lontinien 1710–1713	Succeeded by Khoga Checheyigen
Preceded by: Post Vacant (previous holder:Temüjin Khan)	Minister for the State of Lontinien 1695–1710	Succeeded by Baltabek Nariman