Timur-lane

So there was this fourteenth century Asiatic-nomadic-turkic conqueror fellow called Timur, which means 'iron,' and he was lame, which coagulates into Tamerlane. His father, Taraghai, was the first of their tribe to convert to Islam. He joined a monastery and advised his son that "the world is a beautiful vase filled with scorpions." Timur took this to heart, and set out to conquer and crush Central Asia from Russia to India to the Ottoman Empire, and was going after China when, at the ripe old age of 69, he took ill and died.