Yoric Clay

Yoric Clay is a Sevician statesman, senator, and military commander in the Imperial Sevician Army and the current governor of Lowtown. A politician for most of his life, Clay was elected to the Senate of Sevicia at the age of 28, where he has remained ever since, and assumed his first military command at 33.
==Background==
Clay was born in the year 668 just outside the Sevician capital of Morosea to parents of noble ancestry, who happened to be close acquaintances with Petr and Arla Engarden, members of the illustrious House Engarden, one of Sevicia's oldest ruling clans. He developed an interest for both politics and the army from a young age, and spent much of his twenties in various official rules, including a stint as the district administrator of the Saltown district of Morosea. In 696, at the age of 28, he was elected to the Senate of Sevicia, and in 698 he joined the army as a ranked office, earning himself the position of Major.
== Career and life ==
By 703, Clay, still a senator and political figure in Morosea, had climbed to the rank of General. His first taste of combat came during the Third Duscadorian-Sevician War, where he was placed in co-command an army with fellow general Thorin Audell. At the Battle of Flatbush Hills, Clay's severely outnumbered army stood its ground for several hours against the encroaching Duscadorian forces before finally being forced to retreat. A similar occurrence at the Battle of the Crossroads, where his troops inflicted heavy losses on the Duscadorians, earned Clay commendation from the Senate.
After the war ended in 708, Clay was awarded the Grand Eagle, Sevicia's fourth-highest military honour. He was appointed as Governor of Lowtown in 710. Command of the XV and the XVI legions was transferred to him in 711, and as of the year 713 they remain under his command, stationed in the Southlands region, near the city of Vinarrin.
Clay married Mary Arran, a native Jastian noblewoman, in 699, with whom he has two children, both sons.
== See also ==
Imperial Sevician Army
Third Duscadorian-Sevician War
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