The most gifted general among the Cocoon Children, Xian - alias Field-Marshal Adrien Durante, chief general of the Consular Republic of Ajanta - is charismatic, popular, hardworking, brave, a good administrator, and bent on world domination. In every respect, he is the model of Attani virtues, and it's just a shame that the Attani are horrible.

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"Alexander spent his life conquering, and if he had lived to a hundred twenty, he would have been conquering still." - Scott Alexander, "G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk."