Ignák Bēržinaš

Part of Characters of Juhnvechteya
Ignák Bēržinaš is a Joran bandit, nobleman, and captain of the Trînasti Free Army in service to Albrecht an Taepe. 
Born a serf near Pečka in 582, he left home and became a bandit at the age of 16, and would travel the country. It is said he even spent time on a pirate ship in the Vechtese Sea. During this time, he would occasionally meet the servants of Saltū Trînasti, whom he would grow to know through working together and against them, depending on the time. 
By 599, it is recorded that he was in the employ of Trînasti’s private enforcers, during which time he built up a list of contacts among the mercenary companies of Cinelli. By 605 he was married, and had bought a small manor from an impoverished lord, and he settled down. However, in 610, the Raven’s Revolt began, and he was called up for service by Johann’s army. At the end of the war, he returned to his manor, and found it had been raided by bandits, and his wife and daughter had been kidnapped. This made him into a shell of what he had been before, and he rejoined Trînasti’s army as a captain. 
Come the War of Joran Succession, Trînasti devoted his private land and naval forces toward Albrecht’s cause in the civil war, and Ignák was placed in charge of reforming from a company of enforcers into a fully-fledged army, bringing in a few Free Companies from Cinelli to train them. Following that, he began to raid Johannist supply lines on land and at sea. 
Following the death of his employer in early 615, Ignák inherited total command of the Trînasti Free Army, and he swore himself to Albrecht’s cause. Defeating Johann’s Amastrii auxiliaries under the command of Duke Gerneko of the Estreve at Biswald in spring of 615, he then marched south toward Karred, where he linked with the White Army in 615. He would keep command the Trînasti, and would crush several revolts while Albrecht’s attention was elsewhere, starting with the Arłberk revolt.
In 618 he would pass command of the Trînasti onto his protégé, Otakar Téssack, and would manage to track down the location of those who took his family with the aid of his contacts. He would find them, and with a company of soldiers, kill them all, before returning to his manor as a Ritter, an honor granted by Albrecht for his service in the war. He would peacefully in his sleep in 640, at the age of 58.
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