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Someone who is less Elionne and more "Was a dude. Evil lord showed up and smashed my cabbages. So I smashed his armies. With tactics. And his wife."
Just a (in a relative sense) more relatable person who rose to military power the traditional way, rather than the tradition. Having names like that helps, I feel, add some credence to the people opposed to Fanlily's rise to power. 
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Pretty much all of the originals aside from the captain and the Knight-Witch, I think. They were just soldiers of various kinds and backgrounds that did a lot more than you would expect of such a small order. xD