Julii Cossiga

Name: Julii Cossiga, Halmorian Isochrone

Appearance:
Julii is barely fifty, muscular with a broad shoulder line. His demeanor is analytical and calculating, his movements are slow and deliberate. He carries himself with a sense of superiority. Julii and his entourage are regal, dressed either in Halmoria's most recent fashions or ornate plate mail.

Bio:
The four Overseers of life cycles govern not only the rise and fall of individuals, but of cultures and nations. Julii is part of a small but influential school of thought that focuses on Ephaesus as the Growth of Halmoria. In this view, all acts that expand the Empire's resources, influence, and power have divine sanction. This is a popular view among the Legion, where Ephaesians are predominately associated with strategy and trebuchets.

As a young man, Julii walked two paths as a Concordant House Predicant and as a Legionnaire. His unit was among those sent to the north to deal with occasional Valkshir uprisings through the 950s IY. The northmen were proud and temperamental people, yet the Emperor could not tolerate such foolishness. The Legion was given progressively harsher orders as the years passed and as the uprisings repeated themselves. Julii always provided the right strategies, and when the work was done, he proved to be a remarkable councilor and spiritual guide to the soldiers whom were traumatized by what they had done and what they had seen.

Julii rose to power with remarkable speed - perhaps, as the rumors suggest, because even Imperitors sought his council. In less than fifteen years, Julii had been appointed as a Praeto. He was known to be relentless to Halmoria's enemies and stern but fair with those beneath him. He technically had no place among the Hierophant's Assembly that convened in 977 IY to mourn the passing of Isochrone Ureliius and to determine whom would succeed him. Only the present Hierophants who live to this day know why Julii was admitted, much less why he was chosen as their new leader. Regardless, the Legion and the Concordant House now cooperate with each other more closely than ever before on the mainland.

The Isochrone is in correspondence via letter with two of Atalan's citizens - Hierophant Reynoldt and Primus Gray. All others, nobles included, seem to be beneath his attention. It is no secret that the Isochrone sees the colony as nothing more than an extension of the Empire that exists to serve it, with particular interest in the Obelisk.