Katil is the cruel padishah encountered by Ural on his journey, a tyrant who exalts himself as a god and feeds his own people to a sacred lake and to graven idols, drowning the old and casting the young to death. His court of forced festivals and human sacrifice is the first great injustice Ural confronts. The hero refuses the king's daughter and crown, overthrows Katil and his host, and releases the condemned, so that the tyrant stands in the epic as the type of ungodly earthly power set against the hero's justice.