Founders

The **Founders** (Late Palguenian: **Maxejosne**; Late Ardeschen: **Dran Seftrenei**) of the Denlotia were sixteen people who established the alliance as its overlords. Most of their views influenced its harsh laws to reshape humanity, using their grudges to forcibly alter social attitudes to a more "utopian" structure.

## History

The Founders were originally a literature club in Palguenia. With one of its members getting their hands on some strange machines from a dilapidated street market, they were able to reshape the world during the Terran Invasion by unleashing nightmares to torment as many people as they were able to find.

The Founders specifically targeted criminals and anyone whom their growing supporters complained about. School bullies, abusive superiors, government officials, Terran viceroys and elites, and even Internet trolls and artists who blocked others over the pettiest of reasons, all suffered from visions of their own actions tormenting them. By then, Palguenia was a divided land between Terran warlords, the corporate remnants of the Republic of Palguenia, and the Northern Churches. The ensuing mental health crisis led to more wars between the three factions.

In the chaos, more people supported the Denlotia, the Founders' proposed new system to liberate their world from the Terran invaders and other empires. They saw the Denlotia as an end to Terran rule and chaos, removing unnecessary liberties for the sake of a more harmonious community. The new members joined the Denlotia to settle every grudge in blood, murdering whoever who angered them and using whatever their victims left behind as examples of dysfunctional behaviour.

Due to its growing numbers and their stolen Terran machinery, the Denlotia eventually prevailed. Nearly every person condemned by the Founders and their supporters was brought to parks all over the country, where they were brutally massacred. Although such cruel deeds frightened the nations who joined the Denlotian alliance, many chose to stay because they wanted the Denlotia to use its advanced machinery to rebuild their peoples.

In their rule as the oligarchy of the Denlotia, Palguenia and Ardesch were notorious for their high rates of murders and mob violence. Many Founders, including Pinto, were killed off, so the Denlotia was passed on to local leaders.

Only a few, such as Adeshola from Tebwe, survived and peacefully passed away as national heroes, due to their kindness winning more supporters than the other Founders' fanatical armies. Their actions may had led the next generation of Denlotian adults to choose less painful methods to restore order, such as explaining, education, moral classes, and the fear of Terranisation to remind people not to become corrupted.

## Members

1. Pinto Muricnona
2. 6 - "The Enforcer", "The Sorcerer", used smuggled magical devices to manipulate most people on Jerde by projecting his nightmares and curses.
	* He even practiced magic to manipulate his friends' enemies to fear and panic, exposing their whereabouts to the Founders.
	* He was a powerful sorcerer since he was a teenager, seeking to use the power of magic to change the world and destroy evil. Yet he became obsessed with punishment of anyone who was seen as evil to his eyes, delighting in jnflicting painful agony as he destroyed their very form.
	* According to folklore, this Founder was the one responsible for a terrible curse on the show "Broken Plates". No thanks to his sorcery, any fandom of that show would be cursed to never find any peace, but to continue betraying each other. One supposed way to break the curse was to "forgive the misunderstood and punish only the worst".
3. 10 - "The Angel of Morsatra", real name Mintake Ierosinia
	* A handsome young lad with blonde hair.
	* Was notorious for blocking Pinto when both of them were younger, during an episode of depression and frustration. Perhaps his friends abandoning him and moving northwards may have caused him to seek forgiveness from the people he used to block.
	* When he joined the Denlotia as a young man, he was arrested by Pinto's members and brought to his former enemy. Pinto gave him a choice: unblock him and erase several grudges, or continue and "one day be cursed". It happened that Pinto was the last name in a list of people, which he turned to as he searched for his name online. Once he had finished, he apologised and begged Pinto to spare him, and confessed that he also felt sorry for his actions even before Palguenia suffered from nightmares.
	* Pinto shook his hand and let him go, but Mintake wanted to join the Denlotia to protect his remaining friends. As a member, he also had to take an elixir that stabilises his mind and accelerates his thinking. He became the Tenth Founder, using his authority not to kill, but to save anyone who chooses to be good.
	* He was one of the several Founders to live and die from old age, with his life and youth restored and extended by an immortality elixir. He was also among the "good" Founders, celebrated as a hero for redeeming himself and many other people under his protection.
4. 16 - Adeshola
	* For his virtue, destruction of abusers and fraudsters, and refusal to allow his homeland to be ruined by fraudsters, he became one of the few Founders to live a peaceful life.
	* He refused to use the immortality elixirs except for a few occasions when his friends needed his help, becoming among the few Founders to truly outlive the other Founders.
	* Unlike most of the Founders, he was regarded as a hero for his kindness and justice, avoiding the brutality commonly practiced in the Denlotia. When he passed away from old age, his children and grandchildren who surrounded him held a celebration, not for his death, but for everything he did to protect his people from total destruction and end poverty in Tebwe.

## Conduct

During their existence, the Founders were, in some way, among the actual authorities of the Denlotia, even though they usually deferred to the legal institutions of their respective countries. They were considered as the "real authorities" only because they led the revolution and created the Denlotia, and one of its members was found to have technology that influenced many people across the world.

They were notorious for sending angry mobs, later entire armies, to slaughter *anyone* who made them angry. The Denlotian members, driven to fanaticism by rage and revenge, encouraged the Founders to kill people for making them angry, even if the grudge was caused by an incident from decades ago. Many of their victims were killed during the revolution, the Grey Tolls (instant killings of many peoples across the world), and the Day of Resolution - especially almost everyone who angered them during their teenage years.

### Regarding young people

This was why children and teenagers were always kept away from the presence of the Founders. In spite of their hatred of young people, the Founders would not simply kill any youth who was near their presence, even if the child would happen to bump into one of the Founders. Pinto would angrily order any youngster to stay away from him, while Mintake and Adeshola allowed children and teenagers to approach them and ask for any advice.

That made Mintake and Adeshola well-liked by younger people, for being the only ones to willingly be their mentors and advisors. They were sometimes called "Uncle" or "Grandfather", as over time, they even raised dozens of boys and girls into sane people who would rebuild the Denlotia into the paradise that it was meant to be.