Flavius Severus

	Flavius Severus
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Status:	Alive
Age:	37
Race:	Human
Gender:	Male
Class:	Engineer
Nation:	Aison
Faction:	; Yamato Empire (formerly); Northern Horde

Strategos Flavius Severus is one of the few high-ranking humans in the Northern Horde. Although he is a skilled soldier, his true calling is building siege engines and devising strategies. He has a reputation of never failing to take over a city with his machinery, and he is thus referred to as the Besieger.

Biography

Early Years

Flavius was born to a poor family in Aison. He showed great wisdom even as a child, and his parents managed to convince the authorities to enroll him to the military academy of Graves Hall. Flavius ended up in the same class as Marcus Sarillius and trained to become a paladin although he was always more interested in devising strategies than actually learning swordfighting skills. The two went their separate ways after graduation.

Flavius had always been ambitious, and this eventually led him to betray his homeland by joining the ranks of Yamato during the invasion of Aison. He was relocated to Yamato only a week prior to the Grand Alliance's attack on Aison and thus failed to help in the war. He ended up with Nobuo Iwasaki and joined the Northern Horde with him after the Cataclysm. He showed great skill as an architect and strategist and slowly rose to the rank of Strategos, a general of one of the horde's armies.

Godslayer Era

Sowing Season

When the Northern Horde set its eyes on the Sultanate of Karaganda in 11 AOE, Flavius was ordered to find out how to penetrate the defenses of Vanna, a city which had often been called a besieger's nightmare. He saw it as a challenge to prove his intellect and began working on an ultimate weapon which he could unleash upon the city.

He eventually finished his deadliest war machine yet, the Helepolis, and became eager to test it against Vanna now that the siege had begun. He was less than pleased to see Marcus Sarillius again, particularly as he witnessed the power of Marcus's sword, Dusk, which decimated many demons and even the colossal demon, Dominator.

Devourer's Reach

Flavius unleashed the Helepolis on Vanna's western side while many warriors from the horde attacked the city from the east. Helepolis's first true test had finally begun.

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Aliases and Nicknames

Besieger: Given to Flavius because of his perfect record of conquering cities with the help of his devastating war machines.

Appearance

Flavius has a short, dirty blond hair and a well-trimmed beard. His face is rather narrow, which makes him look somewhat sinister. He is a rather tall man but not as muscular as many warriors. He wears the red armor of the Northern Horde and a cloak with a darker shade of red.

Personality and Traits

Flavius is an intelligent and quite ambitious man. He sees people as mere tools that he can use to test his war machines. Although he cares for the men under his command, it is only from a strategic point of view: he wishes to win battles with as few casualties as possible to prove his superior intellect to other commanders.

Powers and Abilities

Flavius is a better than average warrior and prefers to use war hammers in battle because they often turn out to be more effective against armored foes than swords or axes. His endurance is not as good as a knight's, though, so he usually tries to use his surroundings to his advantage to finish off his opponents quickly.

However, his real strength lies in his intellect which has granted him such a high position in the demon-controlled Northern Horde. He is skilled in carpentry and knows how to use ironworks. He is also a good painter, and his sketches of siege towers and other machines are often quite detailed and beautiful to look at.

Relationships

Distreyd Thanadar XIII

Distreyd grudgingly acknowledges Flavius's skills as an architect and strategist, but he is not happy about the man's past as a former paladin from Graves Hall. Distreyd and Flavius have learned to live with each other, because they understand that they must cooperate if they wish to proceed in their respective careers. Flavius thinks that Distreyd is insignificant in the greater scheme of things, but he is willing to use Distreyd's mages and Chaos Dwarves to test his new weapons so that he can improve his already impressive war machines.

Leraje Thanadar

Leraje is Flavius's superior. Although the Dreadlord respects Flavius's intellect and success in battles, Flavius sees Leraje as nothing more than a beast who he is forced to tolerate for the time being. Flavius is willing to use every opportunity that Leraje gives him to test new siege weapons, and this is likely the only reason why Flavius still bothers hanging around Leraje.

Nobuo Iwasaki

Flavius is a prodigy, but Nobuo often thinks that the man's plans are too complicated for straight warfare. Nobuo has come to respect Flavius for the creation of various useful weapons of war. The two do not talk much, but they have learned to co-operate as it is the only way to guarantee survival among bloodthirsty demons. Flavius sees Nobuo as an ordinary commander with no vision, and he likes ordering the lower-ranked Nobuo around whenever an opportunity presents itself.