John E. Winters

General John E Winters is a Living Legend and a very seasoned military veteran. He has served as the chief advisor or commanding officer in many conflicts in a selection of scales across his one hundred years of life.His knowledge in military tactics is very sought after and thus he has a large selection of talented apprentices as well as his own personal militia.

Appearance
John is a very old and worn man, having a very aged and wrinkled face and ice-white hair and a goatee beard. John is missing his right eye, where it was shot out during a campaign in Africa and has a steadily healing gash across his throat where an assassin attempted to end his life in a skirmish in France. John often wears an old, worn military jacket that proudly displays his great abundance of medals and awards and is wheelchair bound due to an attack from a Wooly Mammoth, paralysing him from the waist down and mangling his legs beyond repair.

Personality
John is often a very charming and social man, being able to strike up and maintain and conversation with pretty much anyone he talks to, regardless of whether they respect him or not. To his most fond and talented apprentices he has quite a paternal bond with them, shown clearly when he refers to Enoch as “My son” after he gets past John's guards. To his friends he has a very caring relationship using pet names in a genuine or ironic and sarcastic way. Demonstrated when he refers to Francesco as “Jester” or “Joker” in their conversation.

History
John was born in Old Orleans, the remnants of New Orleans 94 years after the apocalypse struck Earth on Judgement day. His father, Raymond Winters taught him the basics of self defence and John had a consistent diet of Old-World War films as a child, giving him a fascination with warfare and a lust for leading men to victory. North America was gathering it's pieces back together, trying to reshape itself and in the process it began to recreate it's centralised army, prompting John to join almost immediately after he heard of it.

John quickly rose through the ranks over the next decade, taking him from boyhood to his mid twenties. John began to lead many expeditions into the hostile wastes of North America and Canada, purging zombie incursions and stomping out hostile gangs along the way to save innocent civilians from needless torment. By his thirty eighth birthday he achieved the rank of general, faster than any of his other compatriots had done so, he achieved this by his unique affinity for leadership and his brilliance with firearms. By the age of forty five he achieved the rank of Supreme General, the highest rank in the reassembled US Military and had one a slew of different awards and medals for his service. He found his life in America a little stale and repetitive so he decided to journey his way around the world, training young soldiers, sharing his tactical brilliance and teaching people to carry on his legacy.In the next three decades of his life, John fought in many major conflicts and assisted centralised armies and even some small gangs in fighting for justice and for a good cause. From fighting a large scale tribal war in Africa where he lost his right eye but united severa warring tribes into a peaceful alliance, to aiding French clans and mafias in liberating toxic gangs to dethroning Tyrannical rulers in Spain, Greece and Egypt. By the age of eighty five his name was globally known and was the talk of legend amongst locals that he night swoop in one day and bring their forces to victory, wherever it may be. At the age of ninety he was charged by a Wooly mammoth in a skirmish in Sub-Saharan Africa, mangling his legs and paralysing him from the waist down, after this injury, John laid low in the United Kingdom, living in Central London and not physically partaking in any wars for the next decade.During this time he was recognized as a Living Legend on his one hundredth birthday and given a knighthood for his life of service.

In the current story, John was found by Enoch when he journeyed to the UK with Naomi, there John has partnered himself with the Scottish organization named the New World Order, lending his tactical brilliance from behind closed doors to gain the organization some new territories through effective ambushes and brutal counter attacks. John now resides in New Edinburgh at the headquarters of the organization with it's leader, Chief-Mayor Hamish Mcallister.