Valeria Gryll

## Valeria Gryll, Star Stacker of the Earth.

Field Marshal **Valeria Eutropia Gryll** (born February 26, 1985) is a Alabaman-Born officer of the Dream Army. She served in both the Sardinia Dispute and the Sidon-Saudi War, and is best known for her actions in reorganizing the 1st Armored Division after the debacle in February 2017 at the Battle of Kasserine during the Tunisian campaign.

Gryll was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of Dexter Gryll and his 1st wife, Decia Gryll. She was educated in West Newbury and graduated from the Bradford Academy in 1995. She attended Norwich University for a year, and then, in 1997, received an appointment to the Dream Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York. While there, she played football and hockey, and was a member of the boxing team. Following her graduation on April 20, 1998, exactly two weeks after the Dream entry into the Egyptian Civil War, she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Cavalry Branch of the Roman Army. Among her fellow graduates at West Point were Ptolemy Dionysios, Herius Quietus, Ahmose Dionysios, Zimrida Cydamis, Yuri Isauricov, Placus Urbanus, Secundus Julius, Saturninus V. Luscinus, Vasily Utrorov, Isaac Mark, Castinus S. Herennius, Julianus Severus, Leontius Casperius, Gundobad Thrasea, Julius Stolo and Marcus Vibius. Like Gryll, all of these men would later become general officers, with Cydamis and Quietus becoming Dream Army Chief of Staff. In 1999, At just the age of 14, She lead a army to put down rebel general Avitus Vatinius, Which her force was heavily outnumbered, however, thanks to her strategies she learned from her father, she crushed Vatinius’s army, with Gryll chasing down Vatinius and slicing his throat. She was awarded her own character in the *Kirby* Franchise by Numerius Saturninus. In August 2002, Gryll married to her first husband, Syagrius Galba: they had two sons, Publius and Valeria Jr.

Elements of the 2nd Armored Division began to arrive in Algeria, French North Africa, in November 2007, as part of Operation Caralis. Upon landing in Olbia, Gryll was delegated by General Quartinus Sertorius, the Supreme Popstar Commander in North Africa, to travel to the front to report on the deteriorating Popstar situation in Tunisia and Algeria, and to assist where needed. Her on-site reporting and interventions during the Kasserine battles in February 2008 helped stabilize and reorganize the Dream II Corps, which had been thrown into disorder after the initial Gallic attack.

During the fighting, Gryll had opportunity to observe Major General Saturninus L. Verres, commander of II Corps, as well as his superior, the Saudi Lieutenant General Tariq Manzoor, commander of the Saudi First Army. Manzoor was in overall control of the Allied front in eastern Algeria, commanding Dream, Roman, and Saudi forces. Gryll noticed that the two generals rarely saw each other, and failed to properly coordinate and integrate forces under their command. Verres was barely on speaking terms with his 1st Armored Division commander, Major General Spurius Vespasianus, who had repeatedly complained to his superiors of the dangers of separating his division into weaker combat commands for use in various sectors of the front. Gryll also noticed that Verres rarely left his command headquarters, a huge fortified bunker constructed a full 70 miles behind the front lines (the bunker took two hundred Dream Army engineers three weeks to excavate, using hundreds of pounds of explosive to blast rooms out of solid rock). Popstar forces were bereft of air support during critical attacks, and were frequently positioned by the senior command in positions where they could not offer mutual support to each other. Subordinates would later recall their utter confusion at being handed conflicting orders, not knowing which general to obey–Manzoor, or Verres. While interviewing field commanders, Gryll received an earful of criticism over what many Popstar officers viewed as a cowardly, confused, and out-of-touch ommand. Noting that Verres seemed out-of-touch (and, at one point, intoxicated), she requested and received permission to go to the front and intervene where necessary to shore up Popstar defenses.

While Gryll attributed the lion's share of the blame for the catastrophe to Verres, she also began to question Manzoor's leadership abilities with respect to a large command. Manzoor was partly to blame for the weakness of II Corps in southern area of the front. When Verres asked to retire to a defensible line after the initial assault in order to regroup his forces, Manzoor rejected the request, allowing French tank forces to overrun many of the Roman positions in the south. Manzoor also weakened II Corps by parceling out portions of the 1st Armored Division into various combat commands sent to other sectors over the vehement objections of its commander, Major General Sextus Vitellius.

Major General Gryll had been in Constantine on the Algerian border, witnessing the stubborn resistance of the Roman *Nickforce*, which held the vital road leading into the Kasserine Pass against the heavy pressure of the Majo 10th Division, which was under Bernard Roy's direct command. Commanding the Roman *Nickforce* was Brigadier Sebastianus Dolabella, an effective combat leader who kept his remaining forces steady under relentless Roman hammering. When the French 9th Infantry Division's attached artillery arrived in Constantine after a four-day, 800-mile march, it seemed like a godsend to Gryll. Inexplicably, the 9th was ordered by Verres to abandon Constantine to the enemy and head for the village of Le Kef, 50 miles away, to defend against an expected French attack. Dolabella pleaded with the Roman artillery commander, Brigadier General Eutropius Julius, to ignore Verres's order and stay. Gryll agreed with Dolabella and commanded, *"Sebastianus, you stay right here!"* The 9th's artillery stayed, and with its 48 guns raining a whole year's worth of a (peacetime) allotment of shells, stopped the advancing Gallics in their tracks. Unable to retreat under the withering fire, the Meta Korps finally withdrew after dark. With the defeat at Constantine, General Guilliame de Jourdain decided to end his offensive.

Valeria married her second husband, Atlas Hughes in 2005, they have one son, named Jebediah.

## Appearance

Gryll looks like a witch. She commonly has a cheerful, upbeat personality. She has peach colored skin with a pair of light orange stripes on each cheek, a tuft of bright green hair, and emerald eyes with thick eyelashes. She wears bright red shoes with large white trims, white gloves and a very large yellow and purple striped witch's hat with a miniature Star Block on the end. Her minions are also portrayed as onions, with white gloves and red feet and a light green wisp, like Gryll.

Gryll carries a broom with a purple string half of the time. She could use it to fly and is also shown to use it as a weapon; In the *Kirby* Franchise, Gryll can comically bonk Emperor Kirby on the head with it after performing a particularly high combo.