Ezray Lohdan

Ezray Lohdan

Ezray Lohdan was born in 893 to a branch of the Lohdan family, a semi-powerful noble house in Yzel, who were primarily concerned with the running of the Kumeza Tran The group's main focus was to defend Yzel against the Ilyannoi that patrolled the southern border of Eoion, Yzel's northern neighbor. Within the Kumeza Tran, the Lohdan and Tsere families went back and forth in a years long power struggle for control of the unit. 
As his family was mostly concerned with the day to day military operations of the group rather than their overarching plans, Ezray was educated in this. He spent his childhood bouncing between military encampments in the north and the main military schools in Leowit, located in central Yzel. 
In 915, at the age of twenty-two, Ezray began his work as an officer under his grandfather and other high ranking officials within the Kumeza Tran after his formal education was finished. From them, he learned all they knew about the Ilyannoi and how to defeat them. He also developed a close relationship with the people who lived near the northern border whose villages often gave the Kumeza Tran supplies and assistance. Over the next seventeen years, he rose through the ranks until he was promoted to the head of the unit by King Petrae Oida. However, a schism had been forming within the Yzelian military due to how independent the Kumeza Tran often acted due to their distance from the capital and main command. 
When the Sicru Battles broke out in 933, Ezray had been in charge for just under a year. He was ordered to leave the north and assist Gehn Sei, the leader of the main Yzelian military, in the south, along the Sicru river where most of the fighting was taking place. However, he refused, believing that Eoion would attack should the Kumeza Tran leave their post.
This resulted in Gehn sending a large unit of Yzelian soldiers to force Ezray to comply. The two generals clashed and Lohdan utilized his subordinates' familiarity with the terrain, along with the assistance of villages in order to hold off the better equipped and more structured Yzelian forces.
He was able to drive Sei out, but when the Sicru battles were finished, many in the south wanted Ezray executed for treason. In the end, he and Sei met to reach an agreement. Ezray was able to bring an end to Yzelian control over the Kumeza Tran, renaming them the Daji to show their independence from the main military structure. In return, his family, along with the Tseres, took nearly full financial responsibility for the unit.
Ezray lived out the next decade leading the Daji. However, in 945, at the age of 52, he was wounded during an expedition and returned to the Daji headquarters. While being treated, he wrote the first account of proof regarding the existence of the Cannibal Healer, who had treated him during the initial injury. However, despite the Healer's work, Ezray died from an infection in his wounds three months later.
He was given a hero's burial and is still celebrated among the northern people.

Life

893 945 52 years old