General Horn

"I've sacrificed so much to keep this city safe, what makes you think I'll stop now?"

The Guardian's divisive leader is one General Horn, a towering behemoth of a ghoul in a heavily modified suit of power armor who looks for all the world like his reputation would suggest. Beneath the worn composite plates and bristling weapons systems of his armor is an old, withered ghoul who almost appears to be more metal than flesh. Huge parts of his body, including the entire left half of his skull and much of his lower face, have been replaced with wicked mechanical implants. A walking, talking cyborg zombie with the armored bulk of a tank and the brute strength to match. And that's not even counting the Bale Eye, a boxy augmetic replacement where his left eye once was that his underlings shy away from for fear of the General's glare. Some say that his stare is nasty enough to kill, but nobody is truly brave enough to try it.
Not much is known about the man himself, despite his long and often confrontational history with nearly every major faction in Cascadia. Where he comes from, where he obtained his arsenal, and how he managed to rally a force as big as the Guardians are history known only to Horn and those around him, and none of them are saying. The Guardians were actually the subject up for deliberation as part of an all-hands meeting of the Coalition of Cascadia Reborn on the night of the Moda Garden sabotage. What exactly that meeting was supposed to entail is up in the air, and even the CoCR's sole surviving member Tavish doesn't know as he only survived the destruction by being late to the meeting. It was no secret that the Guardians and the CoCR were engaged in a cold conflict over control of the city at the time. This, combined with Horn's status as the subject for debate that night, has created a pervasive belief among many in Portland that he or someone within his ranks was responsible for the sabotage. Horn denies the accusation to this day, despite it ceasing to matter a long, long time ago.
Horn leads the Guardians with an iron fist and a rock-steady dedication to keeping Portland safe by any means necessary. Many criticize his methods as overly combative and call him little more than a warlord, but for every point of derision Horn has half a dozen examples of extant threats pounding on the city's door that don't seem like they would be helped by an application of diplomacy. Still, the collateral damage inflicted upon the city by his soldiers in their ceaseless fights against the horrors of Cascadia are hard to argue with. Acceptable losses, he calls them. The hosts of Portland Free People's Radio are particularly vocal about their distaste for the General, with regular jabs at the Guardians flung across the airwaves like so much verbal spitballs. This has done little to help with Horn's reputation among the Scavs who routinely tune in to PFPR.
Notably Horn has been spotted outside of the Guardians headquarters at Defcon, the old airport/National Guard base. He appears to be taking a personal interest in matters within the city, most recently in extricating an individual from the clutches of the Junkflea cartel for his version of justice. Few are happy to see the General wherever he goes, but none are about to challenge him.

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When it was brought to the attention of the Guardians that a group of Super Mutants was spotted on the eastern side of the Willamette river, Horn and his personal White Beret guard made the trip to just outside Slabtown to take stock of the situation. There they determined that a cohort of Nightkin scouts was moving through the sleeping settlement, and made the damning decision to protect the greater population of Portland by turning Slabtown into a mass grave.
The resulting bombardment demolished the town, its inhabitants, the super mutants, and one of the only safe passages across the Willamette. The catastrophic loss of life stirred the semi-dormant Uma to awaken and enact a punishment upon the people of Portland for turning so heinously on one another. Those who survived the strike were driven out of Downtown and into the wasteland and surrounding settlements, where most of them either perished or became trapped in desperate struggles for their lives. Many turned to chems, joined or created raider gangs, or fell victim to Cascadia's many threats.

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