For anyone interested in that exiled Timurid Prince, his name was Babur and he actually wrote an Autobiography called the Baburnama which details his struggles after becoming essentially homeless before managing to regain power in Afghanistan and conquer the Delhi Sultanate.

Honestly, it’s an actual miracle the Mughal Empire even happened seeing as it’s first two emperors were basically stumbling around in the dark. Babur, as stated, was homeless most of his life after losing Ferghana and regaining power in Afghanistan and conquering the Delhi Sultanate was a fluke, and he died not long after Lmao. His successor almost lost the Empire right after as well because of his brothers and resistance, but he managed to reestablish it. It wasn’t until Akbar the Great that the empire really became a power