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Zhea, also known as Zhea the Barren, Zhea the Cruel, and Zhea Zorseface, is a minor character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. She was a woman of the Jogos Nhai, a nomadic people living east of the Bone Mountains, and is famously recognized as the first Jhattar, a war leader of the Jogos Nhai.
Known for her cunningness, Zhea, widely acknowledged as a man, is well-known for leading the Jogos Nhai against the great army of Lo Bu, the last God-Emperor of the Scarlet Emperors (the then-ruling dynasty of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti), who threatened to hunt the Jogos Nhai to extinction. In the end Zhea was victorious against Lo Bu, who was killed while his own skull has been made into Zhea’s drinking cup.
Biography
While much of her early life isn’t known, Zhea at some point chose to live the life of a male warrior. At a later point, Lo Bu, the 43rd and last of the Scarlet Emperors, who then ruled the Golden Empire of Yi Ti, assembled a massive host of 3,000 strong and sent them to hunt and exterminate the Jogos Nhai, as when he had ascended the throne, the Jogos Nhai, who live a nomadic lifestyle, had grown bolder and rapacious, making them a threat. As Lo-Bu’s army rampaged through the plains of the Jogos Nhai, they left a burning wasteland in their path and were unswayed by tributes, hostages, oaths of fealty, or offerings of peace.
Though the Jogos Nhai attempted to evade them by melting away, this failed when Lo Bu divided his army into thirteen smaller before sending them to hunt the nomads. According to official histories, over a million Jogos Nhai were slaughtered, leading the rival-clans to unite as one and raise up Zhea as their Jhattar, making her the first female war leader of the Jogos Nhai. In just two years, Zhea isolated and destroyed each of Lo-Bu’s thirteen armies one-by-one by denying them of water and food and leading them into wastelands and traps. Once this was done, Zhea’s zorse riders immediately descended on Lo-Bu’s host and slew the God-Emperor himself. When his severed head was presented to Zhea, he commanded the Jogos Nhai to have the head’s flesh stripped from bone and dip the skull in gold. Zhea then has it made into his dinking cup, which would be passed down between Jhattars for generations.
Legacy
In the centuries that followed, Zhea, due to her acts against Lo Bu and his army, developed a reputation for being a great military leader, who defeated the enemy host using nothing but her cunningness. Similarly to King Harren Hoare and Lord Dagon Greyjoy, she seems to have become such a fearsome and notorious figure amongst the YiTish that Zhea’s name was used by women in Yi Ti to frighten unruly children into good behavior.
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