Thunders of Rebellion

The Thunders of a Rebellion is the story of Fepar Tilrak, Ildid Tilrak, and Ordoth Mardaar, and how they founded the Army of the Revolution.

The Tilraks

Fepar Tilrak was a Blue Draconian born in the village Bortan. As he grew up, he came to look up to the Bortanian warrior named Ordoth Mardaar, a Black Draconian who fought for the Bortan army. Yet the young Fepar never approached Ordoth, only watching from the sides. For Fepar Tilrak, while he admired the strength of Bortan, hated whenever they had to use it.

Young Fepar Tilrak by Jarhed

Fepar wanted peace. He viewed the army as a deterrant, rather than something that should actually be used to attack. At worst, it should be a defensive force to protect its people and others. Ordoth, on the other hand, believed that might must be demonstrated for peace. That they must fight to ensure that peace is kept. He believed that attacking was necessary. So the two never really spoke, with Fepar looking up to Ordoth from a distance.
While Fepar was a student at the Magic College, he was given the nickname of Guardian of Peace. He got this name thanks to his time as part of the Mage Trio, alongside Salasar Feaphed and Melthrum. These three would go around protecting people and stopping any signs of war or battle. Yet Fepar was the one who always advocated for peace, and therefore he got the name.
It was also at this time that he met a woman who was a couple years ahead of him at the Magic College. A woman named Ildid.

Ildid Tilrak by Jarhed

Ildid

Ildid Alidorim was born in Ealla. She was a bard, though not in the musical sense, but instead the artistic. With just her lightning magic, she was able to imbue paintings with incredible magic.
She was also a proponent of peace. She loved art of all kinds, collecting it. She would often speak of the beauty in things, in keeping things that were precious to oneself close. She believed that war would do no good for that. But in peace, you could keep the things that matter to you safe. So Ildid agreed with Fepar's ideal of peace.
Ildid admired Fepar's time going around as the Guardian of Peace. She would often tease him when they passed each other in the halls, but then would be caught sketching him in the middle of a class when she should have been paying attention to the lesson. Sometimes, she would gift him a painting and say it was for "saving the day." Salasar and Melthrum, who didn't get paintings for doing the exact same thing Fepar did, knew that there was more to Ildid's paintings.

Ordoth Mardaar by fyrcracker

Finally, with Melthrum egging him on, and some encouragement from classmates Sullore and Josatra, Fepar asked out Ildid. He invited her out to an art museum that was opening in Camor.
As they passed through Ilder, the newly founded village, Ildid met Ordoth for the first time. He was guarding the village, and when he saw Fepar he decided to go on break. However, he then saw Ildid with Fepar. At that point, Ordoth, who was older than Fepar, was still single, so to see this peace loving jerk getting a girl before him meant Ordoth had to do something.
So Ordoth attacked Fepar, thinking that because he loved peace, Fepar wouldn't do anything in retaliation. Fepar, however, was able to hold his own. Yet the battle was swayed when Ildid backed Fepar up. Ordoth especially didn't expect Ildid to be able to help Fepar. Ordoth was always jealous of their relationship, even when he settled down the next year with Olthash Bifaeth.

Chiefs

Ordoth was never offered the position as Chief of Ilder. Instead, it was just Chief Protector, the one who led the Ilder army. He could not lead, he was not allowed. All he was allowed to do was fight, because that was all he wanted. Not peace, but war.

Sirlini Glirdog by Jarhed

Fepar and Ildid, on the other hand, were both offered the position of Chief, with their home villages of Bortan and Ealla respectively offering it. Ildid took the position for about a week, but when Fepar told her about him being Chief of Bortan, she decided that she no longer wanted to be Chief. Instead, she wanted to start a family. She wanted to share a bit of Fepar's peace, and hold tight what was now most dear to her. Not her art, but her family.
So Ildid left the job to Sirlini Glirdog, also known as the Comedian. Sirlini was jokingly promoted to be the successor, but with Ildid leaving, she truly became Chief. As Sirlini put it, this was:

"Really funny."

— Sirlini Glirdog

War and Peace

As Chief, Fepar continued on the path towards peace, while Ordoth moved closer and closer to war. Fepar never intervened in a conflict, while Ordoth was constantly skirmishing with the Elves. Ordoth had a son named Oraakil Mardaar with Olthash.
But this peaceful family of his was shaken up by the Ilder Massacre, where Ilder was attacked and destroyed by Wood Elves who were spurred on by Ordoth's actions.

Olthash Bifaeth by fyrcracker

Ordoth was not ready for the attack. He was always ready to attack, but when it came time to protect, that was more Fepar's speed. So when the Elves attacked, Ordoth was unable to protect Olthash and the village. Ilder was gone.
With Oraakil, Ordoth would move to Dembar a year later. He was still Chief Protector, but again he failed when, a year after moving to Dembar, Ordoth disappeared. He was arrested and placed in the Magic College Prison. No one knows how or why he was arrested, but after that, he was not heard from for some time.

Recruited by the World Court

Fepar and Ildid, meanwhile, were recruited by the World Court, being told that they would help keep the peace. In this time, they had a son named Nalrik Tilrak. After a few years on duty, they knew they could not keep doing it while taking care of Nalrik, so they left it instead to the man who Fepar trusted to be the next Chief. A boy Fepar had helped to raise in Bortan, named Ikkul Ravofarn

Ikkul Ravofarn by Jarhed

Ikkul

Ikkul was raised by Fepar after Ikkul's was abandoned. Fepar and Ildid thought of him as a son.

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Fepar wanted to keep peace. It was why he agreed to help the World Court. But as he and Ildid did the job, they started to realize they were being asked to do increasingly horrible things. Assassinations, stopping uprisings and even protests that were against the World Court. Coercing leaders to agree to anything the World Court wanted. This was not peace. This was a dictatorship that they were enforcing. And they wanted no further part in this show, other than to put an end to it.

Judge Alpha by Jarhed

This was when they found out about kids that were being bred beneath the World Court. Children who were made and raised to be weapons. Children with no purpose but to carry Item Magic and use it to do the World Court's bidding, to continue enforcing their dictatorship. And this dictatorship would only be strengthened by the World Court's plans to take full control of the world itself.
They weren't just raising these children. They were torturing them, putting them through hell just so they could breed the perfect weapons who listened to them without question. They didn't care what rights they were violating, because to the World Court, they were the law. And they could break any law they needed to.

The Revolution

Ildid, who had been separated from her son now for a long enough time to miss him dearly, wanted to save these children, while Fepar wanted to go and find Nalrik. To protect him. To abandon the World Court and stop their machinations when he and Ildid have collected themselves again.

Ildid's Madness

Ildid did not listen. She went to free these children. She knew they were not weapons, no matter how they were raised, they were children. And she could save them, she could hold them tight as the precious children she knew they were. She could love them.
She began with the child that held Mind Magic, a Kamejin named Sugai Chiyoko. Ildid grabbed Sugai, trying to get her out of there. But Sugai didn't want to escape. She had underwent far too much pain, far too much torture. She didn't want to suffer anymore.
So Sugai used her Mind Magic, making her way into Ildid's brain. Ildid, all the while, was holding Sugai tightly. Holding her as tight as possible, because that was what she did with everything she wanted to protect. That was her peace. And Sugai used that. She used her Mind Magic to show Ildid every horrible thing the World Court had done to Sugai and the other children.
With every painful memory that was now flooding into Ildid's mind, she got angrier and angrier. Wanting to strike at the World Court. Wanting to go to war, so that she could protect her peace. Her family. And when the rage subsided for a moment, she looked down at her hands... and saw only blood. She didn't even realize what had happened. She had thought that just her simple act of holding onto Sugai, of holding onto this child, killed her. And this drove her mad.

Fepar Tilrak by Jarhed

Protecting What You Wish to Destroy

It was around this time that Ordoth broke out of his bonds. He knew the World Court was behind his capture, and so he immediately flew to The Marshal to kill them. To attack.
But he was stopped by the Guardian of Peace himself. By the greatest protector, even if that protector also wanted to destroy the World Court. Fepar Tilrak stopped Ordoth. He told him they could strike against the World Court at another date, but for now they had to regroup. He suggested they go to somewhere isolated. Tamd, the isolated Draconian Village of alchemists.
Ordoth was not going to agree, he was still so full of rage. He never liked Fepar. He always considered Fepar's methods to not work, and for Fepar himself to be too soft. But when Ildid appeared, covered in blood and dropping Helle's Brain, Ordoth picked it up. And it helped him clear his rage enough to agree to regroup. Fepar still had Ildid. Ordoth thought of Olthash, of the wife that he had lost. He had been spurred on all those years ago by Fepar and Ildid, and he decided that now, he would help make sure they stayed together. Fepar asked Ordoth to go to Tamd, because Fepar wanted to go to Ikkul. Wanted Ikkul to come with him, and to bring Nalrik. Fepar wanted to protect them both.

A Son's Refusal

Ikkul refused to hand over Nalrik. He had grown fond of the boy, and had even taken him in as his own son. He loved Nalrik like a son, like Fepar did to him. And he did not want Fepar, a now international criminal, the Most Wanted Man in the World, to take him.
For Ikkul had also begun to work with the World Court on their greatest plan yet. The Chief Crisis, which would lead into the Grand Crowning. Ikkul was going to overthrow the Grand Wizard and lead the Draconians to his own peace, with Ikkul as the one who would take all of the fall. He was the one that would be in all of the danger.
Fepar told him that was not the way to achieve peace, and so Ikkul attacked him. Not wanting to attack, still wanting to protect his son and his adopted son... Fepar fled. He could not fight Ikkul. He did not have it in him. So he fled to Tamd, where he found that Ordoth and Ildid had already been approached by a Goblin named Phund Monet.
Phund was a drug lord in the Tamd underground, son of the Monion Kash Monet. But he said he could help. He had no love for the World Court. He could get them a base, get them funding, and help with getting them new members. With Ordoth's new Mind Magic, they could do a recruiting drive. All they needed to do was do a bit of branding first. And thus, they became the Army of the Revolution.

Revolutionary Proclamation

Ordoth at first refused to broadcast a message from Fepar. He wanted to lead, to be the one that stood at the front of their attacks. He had no love for Fepar. But Fepar and Phund helped convince Ordoth that it was necessary. Fepar had the experience to lead, and the restraint to keep the Army of the Revolution in line.
The Revolutionary Proclamation is the name of the letter that they wrote together, calling on Totania to strike against the World Court and join them. Warning them of the World Court. A message seen by anyone over the age of 19 in Elone. The Proclamation went like this:

Residents of Totania,
I wish to bring news to you, yet I find that I have not the time nor capacity to do so in full. This is fine, a full explanation would get me nowhere. Perhaps instead, I can simply tell you my intention. I, the Guardian of Peace, am declaring war against the World Court and, if necessary, the world itself. I'm sure that's how they'll spin it, at least. Judge Alpha and the men that stand beside him are not fit to rule this planet, let alone make the laws that govern it, as there are no greater criminals than those ones that preside over the legislation of this world. Their actions, contrary to what they will tell you, are for no greater good than the one that suits their preferences, egos, and biases. I cannot sit idly by and allow their injustices to continue, and I call to you all to do the same. I hope some of you will understand the severity of the situation. If you do, the Army of the Revolution will be waiting for you. For freedom, peace, and the future!
Signed,
Fepar Tilrak

Over time, Fepar and Ordoth rubbed off on each other. Fepar became more willing to attack when necessary, seeing it as a preemptive strike. The faster he struck, the less people had to die. Ordoth, meanwhile, started watching his son from afar, protecting him from greater threats and never showing himself.

Nalrik Tilrak by Jarhed

But at their core, the two were still set in their ways. Fepar locked Ildid away to protect both her and the people of Totania from her madness, and Ordoth would still go into a rampaging rage whenever he could not control his anger. While they were working together, the two men still stayed opposites. Both the greatest of allies, and the fiercest of opposition.

The End of the Revolution

It would be Ordoth Mardaar's rage, and his nature of attacking, that led to Fepar's downfall. In 548, during the Grand Crowning, Ordoth's rage was weaponized by the World Court, and Fepar was crippled. Ildid was broken free from her cage, and Ildid and Ordoth, both wrapped in madness, were unleashed onto the world. Yet there was still a small glimmer of hope for Fepar. As he was not alone in the Army of the Revolution. There were still others out there to carry on what he left behind. Perhaps, even, there was someone out there who could save him. Before it was too late.
For Ordoth, he was not hoping for anyone to save him. He only wanted to strike against those that had wronged him. The Wood Elves.
For Ildid, she wished to protect anything she had left. To her, she thought Fepar was dead now. She didn't know what had happened to her son. But she wanted to find him. To hold him tight and never let him go. To save him from the world that began to burn around them. Ildid Tilrak would not let the only thing she had left burn with the world.