Salazar

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Name: Caudillo de Alterña por la gracia de Dios Generalísimo Benito Franco Salazar
Gender: Male
Race: Human, but a very magically powerful one
Age: 26
Job: The new Dictator of Alterña
Weapon: A ceremonial rapier.
Alliance: The Alterñan State

Description

He is shorter than average, with short dark hair. He wairs no facial hair other than a short moustache. His eyes are brown. He usually wears green military fatigues.

Bio

He was born from an economics lecturer at Alterña's only university and a housewife. He was raised in the belief in a god called Fehron, otherwise called just God, or Dios in the Alterñan language. At the age of 18 he volunteered for the Alterñan army, quickly rising to the rank of General due to his remarkable ability. Five years ago, at the age of 21, he led a coup d'état against the Monarch, King Alfonzo, who was killed, during the beginning of a peasant rebellion, which he quickly put down, while reducing their wages. After a few struggles with both peasants and those loyal to the dead king, after five years he now has his power firmly established.

He is called, officially, Caudillo de Alterña por la gracia de Dios (The Leader of Alterña by the grace of God) Generalísimo Benito Franco Salazar and rules in an even more autocratic manner than the late king. Alterña is under permanent martial law, and is very stable. There is a rigid class structure, as always, but now very strictly enforced by the authorities, and the role of the Church has greatly increased in prominence, the practise of compulsory tithes having been reintroduced. The army is also larger than before, with the total conscription of young men.

Recently, he has been disturbed by intelligence reports of the new nation of Aspyes, especially about their revolutionary intentions, and even more so as it seems that they have captured and converted the city of Laus. He does not want this to spread, and so has decided to increase the isolation of the populace, by banning all forms of water transport outside the army, and has decided to form an alliance with like-minded nations against this new threat.

In Chapter 7

He communicated with Draven about the destruction of Laus, and led a poorly organised expedition, but was too late. He then took the opportunity to invade the nation of Wahhabia. There is now much organisation to do.

In Chapter 8

As he was by his desk, Salazar heard a loud crash and felt a great heat that then turned into his room being in flames. He quickly flew out of the palace, flicking a few embers of his now damaged fatigues.

He looked around, and saw noone. So, it must have been incompetance in looking after the boilers for the baths, he thought.

Haraldur, remaining invisible, was some meters away from Franco. He lifted up a rifle that materialised in his hand (invisible) to his shoulder. He aimed it at Franco's head and fired.

Despite his quick senses, Franco had no chance, as the bullet hit him before the sound arrived.

The bullet entered through the forehead over Franco's right eye. It passed through the brain expanding and breaking up. The entire back of the skull was blown off, and fell down with the rest of Franco's lifeless body and the pink sludge which was the brain mixed with blood.