Afrasiab

The largest single absence in the registry's Iranian holdings after the prophet. A corpus that held Kay Kavus, Kay Khosrow, Siyavash, Rostam and Sohrab held five figures whose stories are all, in different ways, about this one man, and did not hold him. He is also in the Avesta as Frangrasyan, so this is not a figure who only exists in the tenth-century epic.

Domains

• kingship
• warfare

Relations

• descendant of: TurReciprocal of Tur's ancestor-of edge, and carrying the same caution about the number of generations.Reference treatment: Tur is the son of Fereydun and the father of Afrasiab. (secondary)
• manipulated: SohrabNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Sohrab record. The corpus held Sohrab and Rostam — the most famous father-and-son killing in Persian literature — and not the man who arranged the meeting.Reference treatment: Afrasiab manipulates Sohrab into leading the Turanian army into Iran. (secondary)

Sources

• Afrasiab is the king of Turan and the chief antagonist of the Iranians in the Shahnameh, who takes Tahmineh's castle and manipulates Sohrab into leading the Turanian army into Iran.: Reference treatments of Afrasiab, of Turan and of the Sohrab episode. (secondary)