Ares, the greek god of war... Although on certain campaign advertisements he'd claim Mars the Roman God of War... but it was true. Alongside some sorta aura about him when Eric was born his mother recovered a lot fast than the average woman... and his dad started gaining muscle and losing weight a lot easier... as did his mom... to the point where when they were on a walk and nearly got hit by a car his dad hit the car instead and came out alright. As a kid he never lost a sports game as the team he was on would seem to have their muscles grow just a bit temporarily. Giving him enough of an advantage to win most of the time. Then in High School he led their football team to victory after victory as the Jocks just got bigger and bigger till everyone thought they were on steroids... and nope... just a lot of natural testosterone... and god magic.
When Eric graduated everyone expected him to try out for the professional sports or go to college, but no one expected him to go and make a political party. Especially one that was exceptionally Warmongering "Warforged" party whose animal was a sheep. Whose tenants was about how they had too many enemies abroad, sent aid to dictators when we should just take over and make things better ourselves, and how we spent so much so inefficiently and just image what we could do if we spent the same amount of money as efficiently. As his words spread more and more people joined his party and in the early days they ended up getting a few of the older members into the congress. Then he started to get into government and start changing things. As he got more and more people under his wing his power as a True King got stronger and stronger. His whole party, his people were strong and were an army in themselves. Then as he became a Senator with more of his party taking more and more seats the inefficient spending turned extremely efficient, and then when he became president he seemed to become somewhat of a dictator of sorts.
Eric decided that for his army he wanted fresh people so he ordered a Draft of sorts and told everyone to fuck. A month later the pregnant women gave birth and the babies were transported to military bases which took a week, and by the time they were there some were as developed as toddlers. By the end of the month the month old babies were grown men and women who were completely dedicated towards the war effort, and then the wars started with the second round of soldiers started to be born.
What did Eric really want at this point? A Queen... maybe having been produced from his soldiers over the generations after they were emotionally mature enough... maybe he'd find a True Queen among the nations he was conquering.