Alexios Melas
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| Alexios Melas | |
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| Physical information | |
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| Species | Human |
| Race | Euran |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color and style | Black |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Skin color | Light Olive |
| Biographical information | |
| Father | Markos Melas |
| Mother | Zinovia Antoniou |
| Date of birth | 25.III.1643 AN (95) |
| Residence(s) | Petropolis |
| Allegiance(s) |
 Constancia |
| Service/branch |
Imperial Guard |
| Years of service |
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A colonel (Syntagmatarchis) in the Imperial Guard of the Imperial Constancian Armed Forces, Alexios Melas is the officer commanding of the Most Serene Regiment of the Basilikē Touldon and as such is responsible for the depot and logistics of the Imperial Guard, the planning and implementation of its phased relocation from Asterapolis to Petropolis, the acquisition of lands and properties in the new capital for the officers and regiments of the guard, and the organising and carrying out of "razzias" into the Euran interior for the purpose of collecting corvée labourers to toil upon the city's innumerable construction projects.
Biography
Born the son of Markos Melas on 25.III.1643 AN, Alexios' mother had been taken into servitude as the daughter of a family condemned and massacred for their collaboration with the Jingdaoese occupation of the Euranikon Theme during the Euran War of 1636 AN to 1637 AN. The mother had been given to Markos Melas as a concubine, along with 364 grams of gold and a commission into the Exkoubitoi regiment of the Constancian Armed Forces, as a reward for conspicuous gallantry in floating improvised explosive devices into the midst of Jingdaoese riverine shipping during a night-time raid on occupied Portus Felix. Presented with the new born boy, the excubitor Markos had proceeded to examine the child. Discovering it to be free of obvious physical defects and sensitive to both the light of a candle and the prick of the needle, Markos declared that the child was to be spared from the fate of exposure in the desert and bestowed the name of Alexios upon him. A year after his birth, Alexios' mother was sold on to a Shirerithian merchant resident in Vey, while the boy was dispatched to the home of a wet-nurse for weaning onto solids. On Alexios' third birthday he was brought to the doorway of his father's home and formally accepted into the household, whereafter he was placed in the servants quarters to be raised amongst the children of the Komes Markos' attendants.
