Yuri

Biodata

Background / History

Position in Qohor

Yuri belongs to Qohor’s most prosperous noble family, which controls one-third of the city’s troops. The church, led by Priest Rick, controls another third, while the remaining forces belong to smaller noble families that rarely cooperate. This balance gives Yuri considerable leverage over his fellow nobles 54.

Before meeting Eren, Yuri had dealt with Khal Jheko and become familiar with Dothraki camps and customs. Qohor regularly paid Jheko gold to persuade his khalasar to leave the city unharmed 52 58.

Negotiations with Eren

Yuri is hosting a lavish feast when Lyon reports that approximately ten thousand Dothraki cavalry have appeared outside Qohor. After learning that they do not belong to Jheko, Yuri ends the gathering and takes Rick and the family heads to the eastern walls. He also orders his hall prepared for a possible banquet if negotiations succeed 52 53.

When Eren refuses to negotiate with Lyon, Yuri personally rides out with roughly three hundred Unsullied. Initially surprised by Eren’s youth, he conceals his disdain and introduces himself as Qohor’s representative 53.

Yuri first offers the two hundred jin of gold normally paid to Jheko. After further bargaining, he accepts Eren’s demand for four hundred jin to avert war. Back inside Qohor, he uses the payment to pressure smaller families whose growing political ambitions threaten his own family’s standing 54.

Trade and Recruitment

After receiving the tribute, Eren asks to acquire Valyrian-steel reworkers, brocade weavers, and two million jin of food, mostly durable provisions. Yuri resents Eren’s intention to purchase Qohor’s goods with the gold just extracted from the city, but agrees to facilitate the transactions 55.

Yuri permits Eren to recruit only one of Qohor’s three master smiths, and only with that smith’s consent. He brings Hurt, Evans, and Torvin to meet Eren, assuring them that Qohor will protect their right to refuse. Fearing abduction, he keeps the meeting close enough to the walls to allow a retreat. Torvin ultimately accepts Eren’s offer 55 56 57.

The noble families jointly supply the requested grain. Yuri later arrives at Eren’s camp with the supplies, Torvin, and five brocade weavers offered as a personal gift. Eren nevertheless pays one jin of gold for the weavers and promises to leave once all the grain is received 56 58.

After collecting and checking payment for the grain and fodder, Yuri returns to Qohor, hoping to use the settlement to strengthen his political position. He does not recognize that his praise of Qohor’s wealth has encouraged Eren’s private intention to plunder the city someday 59.

Investigation after Eren’s Departure

Yuri sends scouts to investigate Eren’s forces, but only one of the initial scouts returns. He then orders an examination of the abandoned camps once the khalasar has left 61.

The subsequent report describes two camps capable of housing at least seven hundred thousand people, alongside enormous footprints. Yuri dismisses the reported scale as a possible Dothraki deception and doubts the existence of such large giants. Nevertheless, he estimates that Eren may command around forty thousand cavalry and concludes that Qohor should prepare for future danger 61.

Appearance

• Apparent age: About thirty 53.
• Hair: Reddish-brown 53.
• Face: Ordinary-looking 53.
• Dress: Fine clothing and gold jewelry when meeting Eren 53.

Personality

Yuri prefers a financial settlement to a costly war. His concern is not simply the city’s survival: he understands that losses among a family’s soldiers can undermine its political standing even after a victory. He is willing to bargain aggressively, but accepts tribute when he considers the alternative too risky 53 54.

His courtesy masks a calculating and coercive approach to politics. He welcomes Rick lavishly and maintains a polite face before Eren, yet secretly uses mercenaries to rob rival families’ caravans and openly threatens nobles who resist his demands 52 53 54.

Yuri is cautious about Eren’s intentions but underestimates the scale of his power. He protects the master smiths against a possible ambush and investigates the departing army, yet interprets evidence of its enormous size as intimidation rather than accepting the scouts’ findings 56 61.

Abilities & Skills

Negotiation and Political Leverage

Yuri bargains on Qohor’s behalf and uses the city’s divided military ownership to compel cooperation 53 54.

• Secures a reduction from five hundred to four hundred jin of gold 54.
• Forces reluctant nobles to contribute by threatening to withhold his family’s troops 54.
• Coordinates grain supplies across multiple families when no single family can fulfill Eren’s order 56.

Intelligence and Covert Operations

Yuri maintains information on rival households and employs forces outside Qohor 54.

• Keeps reports on noble families in a secret room at his residence 54.
• Uses a specially trained mercenary company for ordinary contracts and covert attacks on competitors’ caravans 54.
• Conceals his responsibility for those robberies 54.
• Dispatches scouts to assess Eren’s troop strength and movements 61.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lament — A Valyrian-steel hand-and-a-half sword made by Master Hurt in his youth. It has a cruciform design, a pommel depicting a singing woman, a red gemstone at the blade’s base, and rippling blade patterns. Evans borrows it to test Eren’s hardened crystal 56 57.
• Command token — A whip decorated with gold thread at its tip. Yuri gives it to Lyon as authorization to assemble his Unsullied 53.
• Personal Unsullied — Approximately three hundred accompany him during his first meeting with Eren 53.

Relationships

• Rick — Priest and political counterpart. They share a convivial relationship and cooperate in collecting the tribute, each committing fifty jin of gold from their respective power bases 52 55.
• Lyon — Former personal guard whom Yuri promoted to east-gate defense officer for distinguished service protecting him. Lyon reports the approaching khalasar and organizes Yuri’s escort 52 53.
• Eren — Negotiating counterpart and military threat. Yuri treats him courteously while privately resenting his demands and seeking his departure from Qohor 53 55 58.
• Master Hurt — Respected Qohorik smith and maker of Yuri’s sword, Lament 56.
• Master Evans — One of the smiths Yuri introduces to Eren; borrows Lament to examine the unfamiliar crystal 56 57.
• Master Torvin — The smith recruited by Eren under Yuri’s one-smith limit 56 57.
• Khal Jheko — Previous Dothraki negotiating contact whose tribute arrangement serves as Yuri’s opening benchmark when bargaining with Eren 52 54 58.