Michael Clod

**Michael Eden Clod** (August 17, 1967 - April 29, 2038) was a Bovido Hassian general and soldier who served as a Major General in the army of Bovido Has between 2022 and 2028, and in the same role in the army of the Bovido Imperium from 2028 until 2038 as well as briefly holding office as Prime Minister of North Africa in 2028, having previously served as President of Egypt Has from 2021 to 2023 and as Field Marshal of the 4th Bovido Hassian Armoured Legion in Egypt Has between 2018 and 2021.

Born at the start of Peter Purba's reign, Michael Clod decided to forgo a traditional Clergy education, instead joining the Makassar Military Training Institute aged 14 in 1981, graduating in 1986 as a Lieutenant in the Makassar Defence Forces. Ascending through the ranks in the aftermath of the Purba crisis, Clod quickly earned the rank of Major by 1995, leaving Makassar for the first time in 1997 to take command of a battalion on the island of Jarva, where his brother was serving as Emirate. Promoted to General in 2015 with the re-shuffles following the Archbishop's decision to retire from active duties, Clod became an important figure within the Lord's Holy Army, rival only to the likes of Zebadiah Keto, Etsushi Toyo, Nathaniel Eli and Justus Obadiah.

With the death of Archbishop Michael Ezra in 2018, General Clod was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal by his brother Damal, who took over management of the Home Creed under the tenure of Archbishop Hazael Buller. Taking command of the 4th Bovido Hassian Armoured Legion, Clod was deployed to Egypt to lead the Invasion of Egypt, working with former Prime Minister Abdel el-Sisi to create a Bovido territory in Africa. As the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood continued to resist the occupation, Clod installed el-Sisi as Emirate of the newly proclaimed Egypt Has, using marshal law to keep the controlled territories firmly under the grasp of the Clergy. With the outbreak of the Has Wars and the subsequent death of his brother in 2021, Field Marshal Clod took up the tile Major General and assisted el-Sisi in forming the state of Egypt Has, before overthrowing him and taking up the title President of Egypt Has. Joining forces with Cardinal Anton Ujung, Clod fought off enemies of his regime before temporarily leading the Creed of Wrath between 2021 and 2022, joining the Bovido Has Grand Council in 2022 to advise the new Cardinal.

Under Clod's leadership, Egypt Has remained a *de-jure* independent state but in reality it was merely a satellite state and an extension of the Jerusalem Bovido, even sharing the same armed forces. On August 1, 2028, the Jerusalem Bovido reformed itself into the Bovido Imperium under the leadership of Anton Ujung. On September 1, 2028, Egypt Has joined the imperium as a special province under the leadership of army command, with Clod as interim Prime Minister of North Africa until September 10, 2028. During the Conquest of Africa, Major General Clod led the Bovido Invasion of Morocco in 2034 as part of Operation Avestor, and went on to also secure victories during the Invasion of Libya in 2035. Following the beginning of the Shanghai Pact's invasion of Jerusalem State and the launching of Operation Invincible, Clod was removed as the leader of the Bovido armed forces in March 2037, and was re-deployed to Egypt to serve as a local commander. On April 29, 2038, Michael Clod was assassinated by members of the Egyptian People's Revolutionary Front (EPRF) during the Egyptian Revolution; Clod's death marked a turning point in the revolution, as the overstretched Bovido State of North Africa became unable to control it's Egyptian provinces.