Strategos Flavius Severus was one of the few high-ranking humans in the Northern Horde. Although he was a skilled soldier thanks to his paladin training, his true calling was building siege engines and devising strategies. He had a reputation of never failing to take over a city with his machinery, and he was thus often referred to as the Besieger. Flavius lost his life in the Battle of Alent when a magic cannon he'd designed malfunctioned after it had penetrated Alent's defenses.