Lannes Hay

Lannes Hay is the Warmaster of the Kingdom of Workhold as well as the Count of Vermino. Hay has been in the forefront of updating the Royal Army and the Royal Navy, being one of the fathers of the Royal Navy. Hay also reorganized the officer collective as well as made the controversial Royal Officers Act, in which non-military commanders cannot command armies or navies, forbidding nobles from taking command of Field Armies which had been the prior method.
Lannes Hay has been in the Royal Army ever since the age of 16 and he experienced his first battle at the age of 17 in the Battle of Sanfort Hill, where he commanded one of the two Sandarmes Divisions under Brigadier San Cyr. Ever since then Lannes Hay had earned promotions and respect in the Royal Army rising through the ranks and eventually becoming nobility after his participation in the Battle of Eion Valley.
== Origin ==
Lannes Hay was born in the city of Charlington in 9th May 262 to a mason family. Lannes's father, a mason, sought Lannes to inherit his family establishment however Lannes had other plans. Lannes took interest in military affairs after witnessing the ornate Knights of Antikea and Sir Jerome Voorst Marquess of Antikea. Lannes wanted to become like them, however Lannes's father was skeptical of his son's dreams as they were commoners.
In the end, Lannes began to receive small military training in the Charlington Brigade until he went to Leowell to be trained by Edelmaa Great War veteran Damian Speckt. There he studied under Speckt and became his best pupil. 
== Hopfisch Rebellion ==
Lannes wanted to join the Charlington Brigade again, however in 279 when Lannes was but 17 the Hopfisch Rebellion began and Lannes enlisted in the local Sandarmes instead. Many Sandarmes fled Leowell raising Lannes's position in the unit considerably, until he became the second-in-command of the unit after Brigadier San Cyr.
Under the command of San Cyr, Lannes fought in the Battle of Sanfort Hill, in which Lannes managed to hold his ground even though his battalion was surrounded from every direction. Lannes received much praise for his defence and became a local hero alongside his senior commander. Lannes continued to serve with San Cyr during the Skirmish of Lion's Road and the Siege of Maakor, during the latter of which Lannes earned high military honours during the Action of July 3rd and Action of July 14th. Lannes organized and executed to near perfected assaults upon enemy army camps with minimal casualties.
With the relief of the Maakor Castle siege after the Battle of Maakor, Lannes was assigned to the Count Army led officially by Vito Amadeo, Count of Fianna, though the army was really commanded by Titus Gaul and Gerald Guilleam.
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