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Izuka made it all happen.
It was that day the Hawk Army found him, in the middle of a swamp - for a reason that no one has really ever understood - with his army of Feral Ones with him. And by army, I mean army. I've heard there were at least 200, maybe even more. The Hawk Army was forced into attacking them - with their entire force.
And they failed.
Horribly. That was the downfall of Tellius itself - the day Phoenicis and Crimea were left unruled and chaotic or abandoned - or a mix of the two. With Phoenicis and Crimea gone, the rest of the continent slowly followed in this chaotic fucked up death roll. People who couldn't fend for themselves were killed. Begnion became the center of power, with the senators assassinating the apostle - with her Holy Guard shortly after. Daein fared no better, with Izuka taking charge.
Izuka then did the one thing people had been trying to stop for years - and no one was there to stop him. He distributed the feral drug. He slowly captured almost every laguz we trusted - with two exceptions, but they vanished shortly after, so they could have suffered the same fate. And he made the feral. He tortured them, used them for his own bidding. Gallia then fell and became a chaotic land, just like Crimea and Phoenicis before it. Goldoa followed shortly after, with all but Deghinsea either dying from the drug, or submitting to it - it depended on the type of dragon.
Kilvas and Hatary, being more secluded than the other laguz nations, lasted longer than Gallia, but they fell too against the - as the Greil Mercenaries called it - the Chaos Drug. This left the only safe hiding places for people resisting against the chaos being secluded areas of Daein or Crimea, but even those were slowly found and eradicated by the new people in charge.
Ashera eventually brought the people who were still stone back - but that didn't mean anything. The beorc were killed, and the laguz were turned feral, just like the others before them.
Then branded people all across Tellius started getting murdered, or jailed. The feral drug was found to not work on them, but killing was a good enough alternative for those no-good senate monsters.
I've watched this all happen. I've watched friends be twisted into enemies, I've watched people I love - my brother, most of my best friends, my old mentors. Life is now a game of fight or die, and the resistances are running thin. This is the story of our attempt to fight back, cause a revolution, and free the laguz. This is my story.
And it's not something I would have ever wished to happen.
