[list]Name: Vassos Costaou
Species/Race: Inburian
Sex: Male
Age: 41
Court Alignment: White
Role: Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Foot
Appearance:An imposing 6'2'' man with short, dark hair and eyes
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[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Skills: A trained, veteran soldier and competent commander.
Weaknesses: Can't swim.
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory:Vassos can't remember much of his childhood before he was abducted and taken to the military Academy in Alveby.  Like many young boys in outlying areas he was snatched up, dragged to the capital and put through the pseudo-monastic Academy that turned boys into loyal members of the 'Owned Men'.  Despite, technically, being a slave, property of the Emperor, Vassos and the other 'Owned Men' enjoy a greater degree of privilege than other humans.  They live comfortable lives, they can amass wealth, and when they come to retire, they are able to marry.  Indoctrinated from their first day, the 'Owned Men' are typically loyal to the Emperor, particularly when they are young.  Vassos, however, is not young, and has spent plenty of time listening to other humans, many of whom have ideas about the Empire that are quite different from what he was taught at the Academy...

 Vassos has never risen to any position of command, though he was initially picked for the Light Cavalry, a more prestigious position than that of mere infantry.

Over the past 22 years, Vassos has served in numerous border raids against the Quinians though in recent years he was moved to Grendell, stationed to keep an eye on the creatures that roam the Blighted land.  He fought in several skirmishes against the Orcs, finding them physically repulsive though of little comparative threat compared to Quinian riders.

It was in the villages around Grendell that Vassos began to be exposed to other Inburians who hadn't been through the Academy.  Initially their ideas made him uncomfortable, though he listened, mostly because he knew he was Inburian.  Gradually, some of those ideas started to take hold and Vassos started to imagine a free Inbur.

After a drunken brawl that marred an otherwise spotless career, Vassos was fined and transferred to slave caravan duty for six months.  It was not a prestigious role, though it was a fateful one, for it was there that he bumped into Andronika Hasikos and agreed to help her escape, hoping she would eventually raise a rebellion to free the Motherland.

After several attacks by Imperial agents which nearly killed the girl on more than one occasion, Andronika did exactly that and appointed Vassos Lieutenant-Colonel to her Royal Regiment of Foot (with Aonène Alzina La Noue de Bellièvre as the symbolic head of the Regiment and Colonel).  Vassos took an active part in holding the wall during the seige and subsequent battle of Trefgodwig, commanding the Regiment's musketeers in repelling an Imperial ladder party.

Vassos remains an important advisor on military matters in the White Court.
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