Damal Clod

**Damal Judas Clod** (November 31, 1972 - May 15, 2021) was a Bovido Hassian clergyman and politician who served as Emperor of Bovido Has from April 1, 2020 - May 14, 2021, as well as Archemirate of Bovido Has from June 4, 2019 - April 1, 2020 under Archbishop and Emperor Hazael Buller.

A strict and highly disciplined man, Damal Clod made his name within the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has as a skilled bureaucrat within the Home Creed in the 2010s, operating as a senior figure within the creed under the regime of Michael Ezra before taking the top spot in the department in 2018 with the succession of Hazael Buller to the throne and office of Archbishop following the death of Ezra. Quickly becoming a core leader in the new regime, Clod was also appointed to the role of Archemirate in 2018, responsible for keeping order between the various different Has provinces of the empire. With the assassination of Buller in 2020, Clod achieved a power sharing arrangement with his rival Syli Dean which allowed him to take control of the nation as Emperor of Bovido Has, although as a result of the instability caused by the assassination of Hazael Buller, Damal Clod soon found himself at war with the Libirachi Empire.

With the nation now forced into open warfare with it's historical rival, Damal Clod suffered an almost immediate devastating blow with the defection of half of the Lord's Grand Army, leaving the nation without a formal empire-spanning armed forces for the first time in it's history, with all continental possessions in south-east Asia falling to the new nation of Obadiah Has. Forced into a power-sharing agreement with Syli Dean, the new regime suffered from profound instability, and the assassination of army chief Omar Jude in the summer of 2021 only compounded such issues. After a botched attempted invasion of the Libirachi capital, Libirachi ships managed to land on the island of Belitung in retaliation, taking the city of Makassar - with the Bovido capital now having fallen to the Libirachi regime, Clod signed an act of surrender to the occupying forces, before being executed by his captors.

As the last head of state and emperor of the unified Bovido Has state, Damal Clod's death in May 2021 marked the end of an era of Bovido History, ushering in a decade of political instability in Asia which allowed the Libirachi Empire to ultimately secure its dominance over the continent and the re-invention of Bovido Has as the Bovido Imperium in the 2030s, a Middle-Eastern, African and South American union of devotees to the Final Testament. Remembered as the leader who lost Belitung, Damal Clod receives overwhelmingly unfavourable rankings historically and many subsequent Bovido leaders opted to ignore Clod when conducting official histories of the nation.

## History

Born in 1972 into the clerical Clod family in Makassar, Damal Clod was admitted into the Clergy in 1986 aged 14 in the traditional Bovido Hassian manner, following in the footsteps of his brother Michael Clod who had joined the military academy 5 years prior. Leaving Makassar in 1990 to lead his first congregation on the island of Java, Clod became an influential power within the Bovido after being appointed Emirate of Java, and later taking a place within the Creed of Home in 1995, with the creed becoming his main focus in the years that would follow, and would ultimately earn him his reputation as being a devout and hard working devotee of the clergy. Handpicked by the new Bovido Emperor-Archbishop Hazael Buller to take office as the head of the Creed of Home and to take the rank of Archemirate of Bovido Has by Hazael Buller in late 2019, taking the role from his friend and rival Syli Dean. Following the assassination of Hazael Buller in March 2020, the nation of Bovido Has was thrown into turmoil as members of the Grand Council fought to try to take power, with Damal Clod and Syli Dean eventually coming to a power sharing agreement following the defection of Justus Obadiah and Nathaniel Eli who formed Obadiah Has, alongside a large portion of the Lord's Grand Army, leading to Clod becoming Emperor and Dean the Archbishop on April 1 2020. In retaliation for the death of his former master, Clod signed a declaration which officially declared war on the Libirachi Empire on April 1, the day of his coronation.

## Reign

 Archbishop

Taking office on April 1, 2020 as Emperor of Bovido Has, Damal Clod set about forming a coalition between himself and Archbishop Syli Dean in order to try to bring a swift end to the political instability of the nation. Following the Libirachi declaration of war on the same day, Emperor Clod issued a swift rebuttal and the two nations began to come to loggerheads in the Has Wars, whilst also fighting off Obadiah Has and the Hǔnluàn; in order to maintain control of the nation, Clod's power sharing agreement with Archbishop Dean meant that he served as the head of state and thus had full control over military affairs too, leading the wartime effort whilst leaving Dean to manage the political effects of the war and to keep the Clergy under control in order to prevent any further costly defections or fractional infighting. Under Clod's guidance, Bovido Has re-built its army from the ashes after their defection into Obadiah Has, paving the way for an increased assault on the Libirachi Empire in late 2020, even managing to kidnap the Libirachi president during the Invasion of the Libirachi Empire.

Ultimately this assault on the Libirachi capital of Beijing proved to be a colossal mistake, leading to a Libirachi counterattack in September 2020, as such beginning the Invasion of Belitung and then the subsequent Siege of Makassar. Whilst the Libirachi forces began their trudge towards Makassar, Emperor Damal Clod and his Clergy counterpart Archbishop Syli Dean began an attempt to raise the largest people's army the world had ever seen, turning its civilians into living weapons, both through the usage of Kamikaze tactics (turning pilots and their aircraft into bombs) and masses of civilians acting as a barrier between the advancing army and the Bovido leadership. Meeting secretly within the Lord's War Council room, the Archbishop began enacting contingency plans for his own escape whilst the Emperor refused to budge, a mistake that would cost many lives in the later stages of the siege. As the War Council deliberated and fractional infighting make ruin of the Bovido battle plans, Archbishop Dean begun his final contingency - evacuation to Japan Has along with a slimmed down version of the War Council within a period of 6 months to allow for necessary preparations and other departments to move as well.

Having surrounded the capital island, the net tightened on the Clod, who had refused to even plan an escape route for his total confidence in the stability and strength of his defences, whilst Archbishop Syli Dean was laying out the final preparations in his evacuation plan, although the invasion had taken him by surprise. By May 12th 2021, the capital city of Makassar had fallen to the Libirachi Empire and the 2nd Occupation Army was flushing out remnants and the War Council who had fled from their government building, although the Libirachi blockade meant they couldn't escape, and were found alongside Emperor Damal Clod in the Makassar Spire, the tallest building in the city and the final hiding place of the Bovido Has leadership. Begging for his life, Clod signed a decree of surrender effective to all soldiers and citizens of Bovido Has, ordering them to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Libirachi Empire. Broadcasted across the world, both on Bovido and Libirachi state media, as well as on countless western news services, the execution of Damal Clod and his cabinet of ministers sent a warning to the world - nobody messes with the Libirachi Empire. With the death of its paramount leader, Bovido Has shattered like glass, coming under siege from Obadiah Has and the fractional groups across the Pacific islands and eventually collapsing under the pressure. Hastily escaping with a legion of soldiers who refused to follow Clod's orders, Archbishop Dean managed to escape Belitung and fled to Japan, where he would attempt to re-build Bovido Has from the new capital of Tokyo.

 August 14 2018 - March 29 2020