Zeno Katakaloan (Aversaria)

BACKSTORY

"They detest us because they are dimwitted, ill-minded, and overall a waste of human resource. This is why they either rest below a bed of roses or we do, and let me tell you something: It ends when we rest. Do not let it end. Never. Do you understand?"

Zealots and commanders have little things in common but this, they know the word commitment and all that which comes with it. The brutal rage of a barbarian but oh so much more, it is so much more than blind lust for wrath. It is the manifestation of absolute domination, the aspect of triumph or failure lying on a thin balance. This is how a man values himself, so thinks Zeno. Born in a small hamlet by the province of Heria, Zeno was brought up as an acolate of the Tirocles cult. He learned not just to recite but speak to them in his own booming tongue for which he was given the floor but going into his teens, he would usurp the floor for himself as his zealous rhetoric's spoken out in public got him quite the renown.

Thinking himself destined to become the next Cult Master, he laid himself with books though when the Age of Dictat began, he was conscripted within the Kodaxes army to crush the republican primean city states and thus began his times as a commander of men. It was in the city of Ithanis that he first fought within the vanguard and didn't simply sit behind in reserve. The Lord of the castle had not expected a quick but rather rash move made by the upper officership who thought it strategically sound to attack the gates in the day when they expect it the less. Little to say, the vanguard didn't fare so well and even Zeno came but a hairs length short of dying from a stray arrow. Seeing the chaos around him, the young primean, though smaller in stature and age, showed great vigour through his religious speeches for the wounded in the front line, numbering around 250~ who rose up and joined him in a frontal charge of the city. Though casualties had been felt, the city gate finally fell and Zeno's squadron was the highlight of the day as they flayed men of the garrison openly and let their blood kiss the wet earth while the Lords hall was razed and the governors family killed. So, Zeno was born a second time, first as a zealot, and then as a brutal tactician.

FEATS

1) Raid of Kaele

Zeno Katakaloan performed a daring raid on the Sadafi Sultans host, disrupting their supplies and sabotaging other essentials for their campaign. It is foretold that he came face to face with the Sultan himself who fought him with a scimitar on one hand and fire in the other. The Arch-Legon of Aversaria was thrown against the ground by the fireball sprung at him; his armor melted into his chest. It was thanks to the faithful in his company that he was able to come out of there without death looming over his shoulders.

2) Siege of Daxis

In the second siege of Daxis Citadel, Arch-Legon Katakaloan fought as a part of the vanguard. He was joined by Magistrate Theodora Philes and Legon Thalian of Delios, both of whom assisted him. He found himself responsible for the cavalry, shouting orders for them to maintain formation whilst the enemy sallied out with an opportunity in hand. The Arch-Legon held them back and allowed the Aversaria forces opportunity for a retreat but not without dealing substantial damage.