Righteous Brotherhood (TLOS: TAOMAT)

The Righteous Brotherhood is an ancient cult that spawns from The Land of Stories and an antagonistic element in TAOMAT, it has 333 men and none of the 333 know about each other. The Righteous Brotherhood has very infamous beliefs which they call the Righteous Philosophy, and they are lead by a Righteous Councillor (formerly Righteous King).

## History

### Dragon Age

The Righteous Brotherhood was founded by 333 men, the 333 did not know about each other but developed an evil philosophy saying that magickind is evil and women are worse than men. They had made several laws and were responsible for the Magic Coup, where several members masqueraded as King Champion l's high justices and manipulated the naive young king to hell with it. And then, once those men died, their firstborn son would be joining and so on.

The Brotherhood lived on strong until Brystal Evergreen abolished the rules that sprouted from their oppressive ruling and caused them to direct her as Target One. Luckily, their righteous king happened to be a prince of the court, being Prince Gallivant.

### History of Prince Gallivant \*in a nutshell

Gallivant was fifth-in-line for the throne when his parents, Prince Heroic and Princess Beth, was killed by an angry mob in their carriage while on taking the boy to the places he was declared Duke, Lord, Earl, etc, he gained a scar on his cheek and gained a hate for humankind. When he was small, the then-Righteous King saw him as a worthy successor, he trained the boy with everything he knew and brainwashed the boy, giving him the codename of Seven because he was seventh-in-line, who had already been pure evil. By the time of ATOW, the previous Righteous King had retired and Seven was named as the new Righteous King.

Anyway, that sums it up, boy, let's go back.

Seven's TAOMAT arc coming soon!

#### Back

Anyway, the Brotherhood then ruined the wedding of Brystal's brother, Barrie Evergreen, who was having the best day of his life he had and he was about to marry the ancestor of kings of centuries to come just when the brotherhood striked. Yes, it was nasty but his sister was totally warned. Anyway, later the Brotherhood took over, renamed the kingdom and was having fun and hanging Brystal's family when they all turned out to be FAKE! They are the witches of Ravencrest and they were also okay too to add insult to damage, but that's another story. Anyway, thanks to the power of alchemy, the Brotherhood was overthrown like hell and Penny was crowned.

### The Age of Magic

The Brotherhood struggled on like a decapitated cockroach, their King was locked up in the Alchemy Institute to experiment on hate, and they collapsed, they did try to make a new system and everything and that turned out to be successful.

Due to paradise revolution they just were, well, minor nuisances, but secretly, they still had the evil network. you know

### Modern Era

In the Golden Age and the Age of Magic and Technology, the Brotherhood was getting stronger but also ignored, but they had later on had new business ideals of smuggling opium through an underground network by first growing the poppies by growing greenhouses in the fortress and forcing female peasants to do the labor for low money and then smuggling the thing in a secret network by posing them as cigarettes, inflatable livestock, and faux fruit and vegetables, they were just becoming a normal criminal syndicate with some random ideals.

It wasn't until the second season (2014) they noticed it, the opium was discovered in a hideout in the Giant's castle and later some of the smugglers were arrested and the items discontinued. The Brotherhood was later on having other operations in Saffron Bay and Tinzel Heights, owning the Ciara Casino and several other operations posed as more places to do more criminal activities like gun-running, but they were busted and locked up. The Brotherhood was never really heard again, but some mentions and some thugs would randomly appear.

## Philosophy

"*Mankind to rule the earth, and men to rule mankind”*

Followers but non-members of the Brotherhood are called Righteousists, while the philosophy is called Righteousism (a pun on fascism and communism).

## Bases

* Fort Righteous: The main fortress
* The Giant's castle: Used it to store opium and do other illegal activities.
* Ciara Casino: Fake operation designed to also do more illegal operations.

## Behind the scenes

### Original take

The Righteous Brotherhood was (intepreted by Ferrari) Chris Colfer's way to teach younger readers about the Ku Klux Klan, in a more innocent and subtle way such as the guys in masks and racism against black people being replaced by sexism. And when they took over the Southern Kingdom, it was a parody of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

### Ferrari's take

Ferrari used the original one as reference, but added several elements such as making them smuggle drugs yet still behaving like a cult, inspired by Herge's Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh's Kih-Oskh Brotherhood, which was set up by Tintin enemy Rastapopoulos to smuggle opium from the fictional Indian region of Gaipajama. Ferrari also includes elements from Ingsoc from 1984, which shows oppressive elements such as quotes in Brotherhood campaigns directed to children. Ferrari was also inspired by the Death Eaters, with Snider being partially based on ~~Voldemort~~ You-Know-Who himself.

## Trivia

* Righteous Brotherhood is one of Hero's many insults that he uses when cross at someone. Sometimes, he can combine it with some other insults, creating things like great fat elm-brained piece of crap Righteous Brotherhood you!