Commander Wei Zhang

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An unyielding strategist, Commander Wei Zhang embodies a systematic approach to warfare drawn from years of rigorous training under Admiral Elara Vex. With his tactical acumen honed on the turbulent seas, every decision is weighed with precision, reflecting the burdens of his tragic past. Surrounded by maps and battle plans, he exudes a calm intensity that inspires those under his command.

Backstory

Three chess masters had declared the puzzle unsolvable, yet twelve-year-old Wei Zhang moved the final piece with trembling fingers, completing the ancient war game that would save his captured village from Admiral Elara Vex's siege. The brilliant child had spent seventy-two sleepless hours studying her naval formations from his hiding spot in the harbor ruins, learning to think like the legendary tactician who had unknowingly killed his parents in the crossfire. When Vex discovered that a mere boy had outmaneuvered her through pure strategic genius, she made an unprecedented choice—rather than execute the enemy who had humiliated her, she adopted him as her protégé. Years later at the Siege of Blackwood Keep, Wei's first independent command would prove that his mentor's gamble had created something extraordinary: a strategic mind that could predict three moves ahead of even the most seasoned generals. The locket he wears contains not Vex's portrait, but the final chess piece from that

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