Siamak (سیامک)

Siamak, son of Kiomars, which already puts him in the “born into the first-ever political experiment” category. Not exactly a low-stakes upbringing.

Things go badly early, because Ahriman is involved again. He looks at Kiomars’s relatively stable reign and decides this is unacceptable. Envy, apparently, is one of the earliest cosmic operating systems.

So Ahriman sends an army led by his own son, Div-e Siah. Because nothing says “I am committed to chaos” like outsourcing destruction to your family members.

Siamak confronts the demons. It does not go well. There’s bravery, there’s resistance, and then there’s the reality of being outmatched by an army designed specifically to erase your existence. He is killed in battle.

No ceremony. No narrative pause. Just the early world doing what it does best: discovering how fast things can fall apart.

Back home, his son, Hushang, eventually responds. Not immediately, because grief and consequence take time to metabolize in this universe. But he does what this lineage tends to do: he avenges his father’s death.

So the cycle completes itself early: creation, prosperity, envy, invasion, death, retaliation. A template that will be reused for the rest of the Shahnameh like it’s a trusted design pattern nobody bothers to refactor.

Siamak ends up as one of those foundational figures who doesn’t get to build the world he inherits, but whose death helps define how everyone else thinks justice is supposed to work afterward.