Belisarius

Tall, muscular, with a small beard, aquiline nose, brown eyes, brown hair

Fair, prudent, very well-developed logic, military man, military master of the Byzantine Empire. Sometimes he can be cold, rude, and detached. He is ruthless in battle, but when it comes to prisoners he is very prudent, fair and prudent. He has a very good position at the imperial court.

He began his service as a soldier in the guard of Emperor Justin I (518-527), and around 525 AD, during the war with Sassanid Iran, he already commanded a small detachment operating in Persian Armenia. In 527, under the new emperor Justinian I, Belisarius became commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army and in 530-532 won a number of impressive military victories over the Iranians, which led to the signing of the "Eternal Peace" with the Sassanid Empire in 532, thanks to which Byzantium received a long-awaited respite on the eastern borders for almost a decade. In 532, he participated in the suppression of the Nika uprising. As a result, the uprising was suppressed, order was restored in the capital and the power of the emperor was preserved. This further strengthened Belisarius' position at the imperial court.

Since Belisarius was born around 505, and the events unfolding in the plot take place in 532 (after the Nika uprising), we can say that the man's age at the time of the plot is approximately 27 years old.