Praesidius Yakov Dilisnya
Yakov Dilisnya and his sister Oleska Dilisnya were born to Lev Dilisnya and Elena Almeida in northern Mordent in 641 BC and grew up there on the Dilisnya Estate. He was the older brother of Stepan Dilisnya, the older half-brother of Camille Dilisnya and Richtor Dilisnya, the uncle of Anton Boritsi, Ivana Boritsi and Sulo Boritsi, and the great uncle of Oton Boritsi. He was also the uncle of Clifford Dilisnya and Virginia Dilisnya and the great uncle of Michael Ratcliff and Winifred Ratcliff, all werewolves.
In 666 BC, Yakov suffered a horseback riding accident that left him fevered and delirious for five days. Upon recovering his wits, the young man proceeded to pen the First Book of Ezra. Over the next few years, he displayed increasingly miraculous powers. He gained few followers however. That changed in 684 BC after he immigrated to Borca, at once invited by Camille, drawn by the evangelistic opportunity afforded by virgin territory, and tempted by the prospects of being recognised as a noble of Borca. Camille who was both ruler and darklord of the recently formed domain and he persuaded her to help finance the construction of the Great Cathedral. The faith in Ezra spread readily to the workers, then to their families, ultimately across Borca. In the act of building the Great Cathedral, Yakov had at long last built his Church of Ezra.
Yakov took the title Praesidius of the Church of Ezra as its founder and first leader. In 687 BC, he presided over the marriage of Camille to Klaus Boritsi, her second husband. In 695 BC, the the first service was held within the stone skeleton of Great Cathedral, by which time the Church was thriving and had become a force to be reckoned with. A smaller temple had been established in Sturben and the faith had even started to spread into neighboring Dorvinia. In 698 BC, the Dilisnya family gathered for the funeral of Camille's fourth husband, Oleh Fortich. Camille was persuaded that her family had been conspiring to kill. She proceeded to poison to death the nigh entirety of her branch of the Dilisnyas, Yakov included. Subsequently, Borca's black widow raised a statue before the Great Cathedral, which would, however, help precipitate the Church's First Schism. [[category:Character\]\]
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