Victor Herald

Victor Herald was born April 4, 1962. He has no siblings, and his parents both died during the First Civil War. However, during his childhood, he spent much time with Klaus Garland, forging a friendship that has lasted over both of their lifetimes.

During the investigations by the Deianiran Bureau of Investigation into the Congressional activities, he moved to Nessus. Running for governor of the state after the former governor was forced to resign due to scandal, he won by a respectable margin. Like Matthew Anderson, he began programs to end corruption and crime within the state, succeeding and bringing himself to the attention of the senior Conservatives, who offered him a spot on the ticket for the 2004 presidency.

Always ambitious, it was at this point he began discussing matters with Klaus Garland. He sought not just ending Deianiran internal problems, but also to end their dependence on foreign trade, particularily in food. After all, in his reasoning, if a country wished to blackmail Deianira into something, it could cut the sea trade routes. Deianira could survive for a time, but not for forever, under such a condition. As election results came back, they came to a consensus. In order for their home to be powerful, it would need to be self-sufficient in all things. In order for that, it would need to expand, either south or east. To this end, he withdrew his country from the PTO, and began to support Nurcia, who he saw would offer the possibility for war in either direction. With the success of the southern route through Corvos after the beginning of the Corvos-Deianiran War, he opted to not open the eastern route by facing Qordalis in battle, especially after the Nurcian failure to subjugate the country, and concluded a separate peace.

Very singleminded, Victor Herald pursued what he thought would be the good of the country even after Secretary Charles Greene and Congress ousted him. Unfortunately, he began mixing this with his pride more and more, refusing to accept Inkfishinch presence on Deianiran land even after the cease-fire of the south, and repeatedly refused requests to approach the PTO for assistance against Greene. Ultimately, he was removed from power by his own Cabinet. Broken by the fact that he couldn't keep his country together himself, he retired from political life and settled with his wife and daughter in Eurytion after the war's conclusion.

It is frequently considered that the only good he did for Deianira was the expansion of its economic capability, which survived the Second Civil War mostly intact. His foreign affairs reversed the progress made by Matthew Anderson upon entering the PTO, and domestically, his policies devastated the environment of Deianira and led to a dramatic widening of the economic divide, even ignoring the actions taken by Jack Dodinas against the immigrants during his brief tenure as Secretary of the Interior.