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Vítor Pascoal
Born into the famous Pascoal family, Vítor is the grandson of Nelinho Pascoal, Quelsh's Second World War icon. Like his grandfather and father before him, Vítor went for the Army. He possed a natural art for military command and rose swiftly through the ranks. At the start of major hostilities in Mozambique, Vítor was promoted to general rank at the age of 25, to date the youngest (human) to achieve this in Quelsh. He lead the famous I Corps until being appointed by his father to serve as commander of the First Army. A few short weeks later, his father was wounded in action (and he later died of those wounds) and Vítor was chosen as his replacement as Commander of the Forces in Mozambique by the High Command.

After the Mozambique War ended, Pascoal returned to his home in Quelsh to find his wife, with whom he had been married to for four years prior to his service in Mozambique, murdered. Their young son's body was not recovered, though it was presumed he was killed and taken elsewhere by the perpetrator. Pascoal beseeched the royalty to expand its hunt for the notorious Two-Shot Killer, Quelsh's deadliest serial killer in history and the primary suspect in the murder case. The king refused him, much to Pascoal's disappointment, though he was eventually captured about a year later by a massive, coorindated effort.

After this incident, Pascoal fell into a depression, mostly isolating himself from public view. When tensions in Angola began to rise and troops were marshalled over there with generals considered to be less able in the public eye than their famed Vítor Pascoal, rumours began to circulate that he had expressely refused to serve. Whether or not said rumours are true is a matter of debate, and when the Angolan Revolution concluded without war it ended the chance to see what role Pascoal might be playing in it, if any.

Since Angola, Pascoal has been, for the most part, remarked upon by his contemporaries as "quiet," "thoughtful," and "brooding" — a marked contrast to his family's renowned assertive and audacious speech. With Quelshian military endeavours becoming far less frequent, the Army had little to do. Vítor kept a low profile — as low as could be kept, being in essence a celebrity descended from celebrities — until recently, where he unexpectedly began engaging in revolutionary activities and leading the Army to war against its fellow Quelshians. What triggered this sudden shift, or whether it was sudden at all, is one of many unknowns surrounding the Destabilisation, as it has come to be known.

Toninho Dias
Toninho comes from a military lineage, though not one so grandiose as Vítor's. All of his grandparents were in military service during the Second World War; his paternal relations in the Navy and his maternal relations in the Army. From a young age, Toninho held an interest in naval warfare. This interest, and input from his father, who spent a couple of peaceful years in the naval service, convinced him that the Navy would be his destination.

Toninho's training concluded just prior to the opening of major hostilities in Mozambique, where he was sent into action aboard the battleship QNS Faro. He came into prominence when one of the Faro's screening destroyers was comprised and sinking in the Battle of Mozambique Channel, the only major naval action between comparable forces in the Mozambique War. Upon receiving orders to go and assist the evacuation and retrieval of the doomed ship, Toninho and a small gang of crewmen he took with him arrived on the listing hull and, believing that the ship could still be of service, commanded his team to fire what would be the final shots of the destroyer before finally abandoning ship along with the destroyer's crew. While historians debate whether Toninho's actions decided the battle's fate, there is no doubt that it cemented a legacy for courage under fire for the young Navy man.

After the incident, Toninho Dias was promoted to an officer rank and transferred to the heavy cruiser QNS Sabre. He served as the main fire control officer for the reminder of the conflict, directing the ship's guns at both of the major amphibious operations at the war's end, the battles of Quelimane and Imhambane. Dias's handling of the guns has been cited as "efficient" and "effective" by both his fellow naval officers and the landing parties, and he again recieved a promotion for his conduct.

At the conclusion of Mozambique and the subsequent rising tensions in Angola, Dias was sent out as the captain of the Sabre after the retirement of its former captain. Though the Navy saw no action in Angola, Dias has said that the command of the Sabre in a time of potential conflict was a useful learning tool. After the settling of things in Africa, Dias returned home to Quelsh for a more permanent stay. During the tail end of the Cold War he also proved a capable administrator, and by the end of the first decade of the new millenium he had become an Admiral.

Dias is, like most Quelshians, extremely loyal to the royal family. His role in the Destabilisation has been one of a unifier: he serves as the unofficial head of the loyalist RINA Council, and is one of the few people unafraid to directly butt heads with Pascoal. He is said to approach things with equal measures of rationalism and emotion, pursuing his occupation with a passion but always maintaining the ability to curb this as the situation requires.

Madalena Reis
Unlike most of her fellow ranking military officers, Reis does not hail from a military family. Arriving into the world in the mid-2000s, Reis's childhood was mostly ordinary until the Destabilisation. A refugee of attacks on Na Sing Se, she was conscripted into the Army's ranks on her thirteenth birthday.

Though young and timid, Reis possessed a good head for military tactics. In the dire straits forced upon the Quelshian Army by the war, she found herself quickly promoted to increasingly higher rank. She is representative of the Quelshian situation in the latter half of the 2010s: young and ill-prepared for the national crisis, she adapted to the environment and dutifully serves her nation.

The Destabilisation has left Major Reis as the Army's ranking officer, and she serves as the commander of the entire Quelshian Army. Reis is not prone to communication and she talks very little outside of her area of expertise — war.

Miguel Aguiar
A member of the generation that fought in the Quelshian-Shoulganite War and the Second World War, Aguiar is among the oldest living Quelshians. Aguiar was interested in aviation at a young age, and he joined the relatively new Quelshian Air Force as soon as he could. He showed himself to be an adept pilot in dogfights with the superior Shoulganite fighters in the Quelshian-Shoulganite War, and he would become one of the famous pilots in the "Euguene Wing" in the Second World War. Aguiar would also find himself briefly in ground combat during the First Air Force Division's desparate defence of Maracaibo.

Aguiar's experiences in the Quelshian-Shoulganite War and the Second World War had a significant impact on his personality. Although he outwardly displays tenacity and élan, he also cares greatly about the soldiers under his command, and he will carefully consider the safest option for the troops. The combination of these elements has afforded Aguiar a great deal of respect from Air Force soldiers that serve with him.

Advancing to flag rank by the outbreak of the Mozambique War, Aguiar commanded the airborne portion of the Second Air Force Division's famous operation in northern Mozambique that allowed opened up a passage to the sea. Although it was intended for him to return to Quelshian-controlled territory by plane, his aircraft was shot down. Aguiar was the highest-ranking Air Force officer to see ground action in Mozambique.

After the Mozambique War, Aguiar would continue to advance in rank until becoming the commander of the Quelshian Air Force due to the retirement of the previous commander. The Destabilisation left Quelsh's already meagre Air Force fleet in ruins, and with the Army asserting control and soaking up all of the available manpower in Quelsh, Air Marshal Aguiar's position alongside Dias and Reis as a branch commander is supported only by his rank, and not by the Air Force's strength.