Süleyman Pasha

It was not yet an empire, but the bones of one were already there.

the sons who built the machine.

Orhan inherited a principality.

What he left behind, roughly 36 years later, was something that could reasonably be called a state, and the difference between those two things is larger than it might sound.

He left.

Timur had no particular interest in permanently occupying Anatolia.

He restored several of the deposed Beylik rulers, divided parts of the remaining Ottoman territory among Bayezid's sons as a way of ensuring continued fragmentation, and turned his attention elsewhere.

He would die in 1405 while preparing an invasion of China, which suggests his ambitions had a somewhat unlimited quality.