Lord_Iggy's Really, Really Important Hittite History
...and that's why Harry Potter is a deeply disturbing character- Oh, hello there!
Now, the Hitttites (they had three 't's in a row before the great consonant downsizing) first appeared under the skilled and pragmatic leadership of King Hattusilis I. Under his rule, the Hittites expanded from one tribe among many to one nation among slightly less than many. His descendents, who all took on the kingly name 'Hattusilis' upon their coronations, oversaw the conquest of the Fayids and subsequent souring of relations with the Byzantines (for no apparent reason other than the fact that people have to get their sourness out somewhere). This odd situation is the one that one prince, Mutwallis, was born into.
Mutwallis was a confused child, possibly due to the mixed messages he received from his parents regarding foreign relations, religion, and exactly which way is left (standardization would not be enforced until circa 400 BCE). This was probably not helped by the fact that he suffered a severe concussion from a chariot accident in his 9th year of life.
Extradimensional historians often credit penguin intervention (or declare it to be 'Sphenisciformic Meddling', depending on who you ask) for the accident, for it had the suspicious signs of personality alteration and no obvious cause (More suspiciously, the chariot had not been moving at the time when it spontaneously flipped over, and several monochromatic birds were described fleeing the scene. See my book "Intervention- The Morality of Forcibly Altering History"- Penguin Books, 2005).
Regardless of the causes, in his teenage years Mutwallis grew increasingly headstrong, while (to his father's lament) losing little of his irrationality.
A potent combination indeed.
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Lord_Iggy's Really, Really Important Hittite History