Escaping the terrifying battlefield, Afrasiab returned to his father Pashang, the King of Turan, with his lips filled with warnings and his heart humbled. He counseled his father against broken oaths and endless vengeance, recounting the unimaginable fury of Iran's newly risen champion, Rostam. Afrasiab painted a chilling portrait of this elephant-bodied hero who wielded a bull-headed mace with superhuman strength, declaring that he felt like a mere gnat in Rostam's mighty grasp when lifted from his saddle. He enumerated the tragic losses of Turan's greatest chieftains—Khazravan, Shamasas, Kolbad, and Barman—and confessed that the unjust slaying of his wise brother Aghriras had stripped good fortune from their house. Recognizing that against the combined might of Kay Qobad, Rostam, Qaran, Kashvad, and Mehrab, Turan stood no chance, Afrasiab fervently urged Pashang to abandon his dreams of conquest and sue for peace upon the ancient borders assigned by Fereydun.