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===General Martin Jose Maconda===
Darklord of Maconda. This charismatic male human was, from his earliest days, both adept at manipulating others with his natural charm and good looks, prone to surprising moments of generosity, and feared for his grudge-holding, horrifying fits of temper, and trait for cold-blooded manipulation. It came a great surprise to him when he discovered that there were people he could not dominate at will - and worse still, his mixed heritage would forever prevent him from joining the upepr echelon of Manzanillan society.

Thus, out of a mixture of pride and genuine interest, he became involved in the growing revolutionary movement, and ultimately he became the leader of the guerilla forces fighting against the brutal suppressionist forces of Don Santiago de Quijada y Alvarez. When Maconda's beloved wife Isabel died in her childbed as a result of of Don Santiago's cruelty, Maconda went in search of the fearsome Warlok of the Peak, determined to have the power to triumph over his enemies.

And he returned with that power. Only to find, to Maconda's fury, that Don Santiago had died of fever in his sickbed mere hours before the last Royalist troops were defeated. Enraged, he ordered the Royalists massacred, cutting down a priest who dared argue against this behavior, and once the bloodshed was over, he left Resistencia for the mainland of Libertad, vowing never to return - a vow the [[Dark Powers]] were happy to fulfill for him.

A year later, he became the president of the Republic, and he soon established himself as a brutal tyrant as bad as the royalists he had overthrown.

The Warlock of the Peak transformed Maconda into a powerful [[wereanaconda]], and despite the many powers his state gives him, Maconda loathes this form, in part because he believes Isabel would be disgusted by it, and also in part because he is compellede to transform into a giant anaconda and feed on human flesh on the night of the new moon. Unusually, he cannot create other wereanacondas with his biter, but those who drink or touch his blood, even if they are spattered with it in combat, risk being turn into either were-fer-de-lanes or were-bushmasters, species of [[weresnake]] (treat as Neutral Evil [[werecobra]]s) native to Libertad and compelled to be loyal to him.

Maconda's curse is that he desperately yearns to be loved and adored, but his insistence upon doing so by repressing and removing all opposition or dissent merely stokes the hatred and fear of those he rules over.

He can be wounded by weapons made of silver or the wood of the caobo tree, and is sickened by both the smell and taste of guavas. If defeated in battle, Maconda doesn't die but instead assumes anaconda form and slithers off into the jungle, unable to regain his human form until the next new moon. There is no known way to permanently destroy him.

Maconda can close the domain borders of his island by causing the jungles and seas to become engulfed in massive swarms of lethally poisonous snakes.