Aigo Tayne

**Aigo Tayne** is a Duscadorian statesman, politician, and general, currently serving as the eleventh Presidian of Duscador. He has served as Presidian since 697 A.S, having completed two full terms (697 - 703, 703 - 709) and won a third. He is best known for leading Duscador during the Third Duscadorian-Sevician War of 707 - 708.

## Background

Tayne was born to noble parents in Duscador's capital city of Manalpa in the year 655. The youngest of three siblings, including one brother and one sister, Tayne spent the majority of his childhood shadowing his father, who was a politician in Duscador's ruling Council, before turning his hand to military affairs. He joined the army at the age of nineteen and soon rose to the rank of captain, before leaving with honour after having served for six years. In 684 he turned his attention back to politics, and was elected to Duscador's Council in 686, after two years of campaigning. Known to be shrewd and occasionally brash in both his personal and public life, Tayne earned himself a following among Duscador's ruling elite for his intense charisma.

He served for eleven years in Duscador's Council and in various positions across Duscador, including as the governor of Ana Dio for a number of years, before campaigning for the supreme position of Presidian in early 697, when the reigning monarch, Zephon, was assassinated in office, leaving a power vacuum that threatened to escalate into a political crisis. Partly due to his popularity and partly due to a weak and ineffectual pool of candidates, Tayne was elected in a landslide. He began his term in late 697 and completed his first full term in 703, during which time he earned himself a reputation as somewhat of a warmonger, eager to see Duscador's defeat in the Second Duscadorian-Sevician War repaid in full. Despite this, he was elected to a second term in 703.

## Third Duscadorian-Sevician War

Tayne's second term was plagued by a series of border tensions and minor skirmishes with the Empire of Sevicia, against whom Duscador had already waged two wars in 50 years. With the support of a large number of the Council and seeking retribution for what had been a comprehensive defeat a decade earlier, Duscador declared war on Sevicia on the 24th of Tullena IV, 707. Initial military action was swift and effective, but a combination of poor leadership and management rapidly turned the war in Sevicia's favour. Just over a year later, peace was declared in the Treaty of Candar. Duscador was forced to relinquish control of over 80 miles of land north of the Neck, including control over the Duchy of Hobury, which had been a vassal state for almost a century.

The war was a catastrophic failure at a time that Duscador could not afford. Costly in both lives and money, opinion of Tayne began to sour. Despite this, and to the surprise of many in Duscador, he narrowly won a third term in 709. The victory was not without consequence; a group of anti-Tayne partisans calling themselves the Blue Shirts staged an uprising in the city of Redforest, in western Duscador, in late 709. The crisis sparked a civil revolt that took four years to fully suppress and cost almost 100,000 lives.

## Personal Life

Tayne married his wife, Lady Marta of Redforest, in 680, with whom he has two children, both daughters, born 683 and 686.

## See also

List of Presidians of Duscador

Third Duscadorian-Sevician War