The man he's named after was someone I knew a few years ago. No one you would have reason to know.

[Garista of the fursnake variety seems to have realized that he is, in some capacity, being spoken about, and as such he stops with the irritated noises and just kind of looks up at Alexei and offers a little chirping noise, tilting its head a bit.]

...He was a strategist.

[wow, alexei]