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===Don Santiago de Quijada y Alvarez===
Darklord of Resistencia. Born the son of a once-great noble family in the Holy Republic of Aragona, Santiago's family had fallen in stature to such a degree that the impoverished patricians had mortaged their lands to the hilt and lived a life barely above that of their peasant tenats. They scrimped and saved to send Santiago to court, but the Don of Quijada found himself a laughing stock, regarded as little better than a jumped up hayseed peasant. This only fueled a lifelong hatred for those lacking in noble blood.

Desperate to try and reclaim the respect he had been taught from birth his family name deserved, Santiago bought a commission in the army. He proved little better here than he had in the court; poor of health, average at best with the sword, and no genius in the command of men or the intricacies of tactics and strategy. His only saving grace was his thoroughness and dedication... but even this went sour, breeding in him an obsession with discipline, cleanliness and presentation, and a love of punishment so extreme that even the Aragonan army considered him a draconian tyrant. 

Though Santiago managed to win a few fairly creditable actions early in his career, his faults quickly stole away what his successes had won him, sending him into a self-inflicted downward spiral of ever-worsening behavior and failures as a result. He was appointed as the governor a rebellious backwater province, and only made things worse as he extended the same tyrannical, brutal law he held over his military forces to the population.

Then he was offered the chance to take up governship in a minor overseas colony called Neuva Aragona, which was also currently rebelling. Despite recognizing that this was intended to be a sentence of exile, Santiago accepted, dreaming of reversing his fortunes. Instead, he proved the absolute ''worst'' choice for the role; a born-and-bred monarchist with no sympathy for the lot of the peasants, he ignored the legitimate grievances of the rebels and remained fundamentally convinced that the isle of Manzanilla - renamed "Resistencia" by the rebels - was home to a silent majority of good, loyal followers of the kings. Ignoring all opportunities efor a diplomatic solution, he launched into his trademark brutality, which only fueled the rebellious sentiment of the natives.

Among his many atrocities, he took captive the pregnant wife of the rebel leader Martin Jose Maconda, one Isabel de Maconda. Simultaneously smitten with her and repulsed by her loyalty to the rebel's cause, he alternatively cajoled her and brutalized her, culminating in his ordering that she would be permitted no midwife when she went into labor. The birth went bad, and both mother and child died.

All his atrocities were for nothing, ineptitude and his habit of overworking his never-great health led to him dying in his sickbed, on the very day the last of his depleted forced were overwhelmed and Neuva Aragona formally seceded independence. But even as he died, he cursed that the rebels must be defeated at any cost.

Santiago now exists as a ghost, cursed to forever mentally relieve every battle he lost on Resistencia and see with perfect clarity how he could have won. And, of course, he's also cursed that no matter how he schemes and plots, on those rare moments he tears himself away from his biter memories and dreams of glory to actually try and do something, his plans to re-conquer Manzanilla are doomed to fail.

If defeated in battle, Santiago reforms in his burial chamber below Castillo Ascension, although he remains trapped there until the next full moon. The only way he can be destroyed is if his personal sword is stolen from this chamber and used to deliver the death blow in combat.

When he closes the borders, the sea surrounding Resistencia takes on an eerie, unnatural calm; sailing ships cannot move, and rowers will find that they simply can't get more than a half-mile away from the coast.