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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 802356" data-attributes="member: 5137">Leaders of TheralisImportant Council MembersBalthas: The Grand General of Theralis, Balthas is an immensely quiet and studied woman, an accomplished healer, and a vicious opponent in any competitive event. Now grayed and shrunken, she is nonetheless in excellent shape, and continues to participate in sparring with Captains, although she no longer dominates in the same manner as she once did.Balthas rarely speaks in Council. When she does, she is right, and when difficult decisions are placed on the table, many Council Members listen carefully for her soft voice, on the off chance she might decide to speak. She has never lost a debate in living memory... if she ever did, she's outlived it.Phitios: Like many Council Members, Phitios is also a General. A senior Council Member, Phitios is not well known, as he mostly intervenes in any discussion only to remind of history or past decisions. General Daelas is considered more of an expert on the military, and General Ukeles is considerably louder. Still, when he does express his opion, it tends to have considerable weight, either counterbalancing an opinion by one of the other two Generals, or lending their statements greater force.Daelas: Young and unspeakably brilliant, Daelas was Phitios' pupil in the methods of warfare, and has managed to rise swiftly since then. Her role as a Council Member is most often as a source of information and ideas, rather than decisions - she still lacks much pull among the other Council Members due to her youth, particularly on civil matters, with which she has almost no experience.Ukeles: Self-described as a "charismatic madman", Ukeles travelled a great deal as a youth before settling back into the Theralis valleys and rejoining Service, and then, upon attaining a Generalship by virtue of the strong loyalty he engendered, set about becoming a Council Member. His role in Council is generally to express the loudest, rudest opinion - many Council Members take their tack from him, following his lead or using him as a compass of where not to go.His most mercurial quality, however, is his ability to change his opinion midstream. Some think that he takes the side he doesn't want to win on occasion, in order to ridicule its position with his own extremism, before taking a more moderate view. Others aren't so sure.Furimenes: Sometimes called "the only merchant with weight", Furimenes is a grossly wealthy man, who outright owns nearly a third of all business going north, and has sufficient assets that he can afford to hire other merchants to run his line for him. He is also a celebrity wine taster, a veritable travellogue of other nations and places, a skilled debater, and an unusually popular Council Member among the populace.His primary focus during the wars has been to avoid heavy taxes to pay for the war effort, and to keep the trade routes open. That will soon change.Alleras: An ellini nearly as old as Balthas, Alleras is considered by most to be the expert on civil affairs. She is also Theralis' equivalent to a spymaster, blending effortlessly the twin duties of knowing what is going on, and maintaining the city affairs as usual. Like Balthas, she rarely speaks, but that is more because whatever it is that she wants to do, she is already doing.The people of Theralis know her simply as a bar maven who trades gossipy bits in return for chatting about anything and everything. There are few regular patrons who don't know her and her lack of thrift where buying drinks is concerned.Menelaos: The owner of the largest vineyard in Tartwater, Menelaos parleyed his patronage of the Olympiad into a Council seat a decade ago. His primary concern is, and always has been, the interests of vineyards, Dianas, and the wine trade. Priests are not allowed on the Council, and he barely qualifies.Important GeneralsPhitios: Born in Riverside nearly forty years ago, Phitios has aged into a muscular but portly man with a relaxed demeanor and sharp, hawk-like eyes. His primary talent is finding people with other talents, and drawing genius out of them like one might pull up water from a well. A skilled negotiator and orator, he is generally well-liked... more so since he dropped the stiff General facade long enough to ham it up in the recent Olympiad Dragon Play.Phitios has recently acquired Captain Agina into his personal squad of Captains, a sign that many have taken as meaning that she is going to figure prominently in the upcoming war, possibly as his morale advisor.Daelas: She is still not the Grand General, but is expected to take that position within a decade. Daelas is the driving force behind the current war push, buttressed by an enthusiastic Ukeles and cautiously optimistic Phitios. Her primary strengths lie in cunning plans and calculated aggression, and she is a monster in the various strategic board games the Generals favor.Important CaptainsAgina: A tough woman with alternately stern and boisterous manner, Agina has proven herself repeatedly in the some of the worst situations of the war. As a Captain, she is most valued by Theralis for her capacity to surprise and threaten the enemy, although there are some fears that she is insufficiently cautious. Recently retained by Phitios, it is believed that she will be placed in charge of general morale for his troops, particularly since she recently won Dianas' Luck in the Olympiad.She is also an expert swordsman, matched by few other Captains.Kyriotes: A Captain in name only, Kyriotes has no one in his command - the title is representative of his contributions to the Theralis military, and capacity for "commanding" extraplanar creatures in the service of Theralis. His title makes it legal for him to make decisions in battle on the scale that he is capable of, and frees him from the necessity of taking orders from anyone save the Generals.Kyriotes is a charismatic summoner who has adventured extensively over the course of his long life, and taken thirteen apprentices, many of whom have since taken on apprentices of their own. He is currently in charge of training a batch of summoners, and will likely continue to extend his influence over arcanist interests in the coming years.</blockquote>

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