Rustaveliვეფხისტყაოსანი

The weeping stranger. King Rostevan of Arabia crowns his daughter Tinatin; his finest knight, Avtandil, loves her in secret. Out hunting, the king spies a knight weeping by a stream, clad in the skin of a panther. He strikes down all who approach and vanishes like a ghost — so Tinatin sends Avtandil to find him, and the search takes three years.

The sworn brothers. The stranger is Tariel, prince of India, broken by grief: his beloved Nestan-Darejan was carried off beyond the seas after he slew the suitor she was promised to. Avtandil vows to help; with the young king Pridon the three sworn brothers storm the demon fortress of Kajeti and free Nestan at last. Tariel weds Nestan and rules India; Avtandil weds Tinatin and rules Arabia.

The court of Queen Tamar. Learned in Greek and Persian letters and in philosophy, Rustaveli served as treasurer at the royal court during the height of the Georgian golden age. He honoured Tamar in verse — and legend says he loved her, and wrote the epic for her.

The pilgrim of Jerusalem. Tradition holds he ended his days as a pilgrim at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, where a portrait of him was later found on a pillar. Centuries on, every Georgian child still learns his lines; Tbilisi's great avenue and the national theatre bear his name.

• The loader portrait — Tariel, the knight in the panther's skin, as 64×128 1-bit art baked into the app.
• Three chapters — the epic retold, the poet's life, and the app itself, proportionally word-wrapped on the 64px column.
• One core, two screens — the byte-for-byte framebuffer the device blits is what this page paints.
• Anbani Pixel — set in an original hand-drawn pixel font that renders both English and Georgian (ქართული), so names and verse read in the epic's own script.