Day of Resolution

The "**Day of Resolution**" (Late Ardeschen: **Glei Danligasna**, Late Palguenian: **Glyen Tallighas**) was a massacre practiced in Palguenia at the start of the Denlotia's existence.

## Course of events

After the victory of Dr. Pinto and his fanatical armies, he ordered all of his enemies and those with disputes to be brought to fields everywhere in the republic. There, people were supposed to apologise and reconcile, but all those who angered Dr. Pinto, the Founders, and the Denlotia's members were slaughtered and executed. They were identified by the Sixth Founder's devices, located everywhere in Palguenia, and driven insane with guilt from projected nightmares. They were arrested by the Founders' armies, charged with various offences from *decades* ago, publicly shamed, and forced to apologise. But to satisfy the bloodlust of the supporters, all those offenders were sentenced to death.

The victims included various people in Dr. Pinto's teenage years who offended and harmed him in the past, including his own mother and father. They pleaded and begged, apologising for everything wrong with their actions, but Dr. Pinto brutally killed them all. The summer air was filled with the screams of all those who fell out of favour with the Founders and their vengeful supporters.

Earlier, the Sixth Founder used a machine to project his nightmares upon various people across the world, especially at every person who harmed or angered the Founders. Later, hundreds of Terran defectors and criminals were hired by the Denlotian authorities to slaughter criminals and fraudsters across the world in an instant, known as the Grey Toll.

Yet the fanatical, indoctrinated supporters of the Founders were not afraid of the bloodshed. They cheered and joined the killings, claiming that doing so was justice for making them poor, hungry, and miserable. They wanted vengeance to punish everyone who made them suffer, and enjoyed and prospered in their suffering.

The mass killings horrified the rest of the world, including many of the Denlotia's member states. Yet because they wanted to continue the rapid advancement of their technology and end poverty in their countries, they remained Denlotian, but mostly refused to carry out more massacres. Others even turned towards the enemies of the Denlotia, seeking war to destroy and replace it with their own world orders, becoming more brutal in their desire for vengeance.

At the end of the executions, Pinto was driven insane by his hate and rage. In his bloodthirsty madness, he raised a machete and swore to the sky: "In this realm, may gratefulness cease to exist!"

## Victims of the Day of Resolution

Each killing and torture in the Day of Resolution was known as the **Eightfold Curse**. It was known as **Gwas s'Aohk** in Ardeschen, and **Gluos z'Oks** in Palguenian.

## Aftermath

The people killed in the Day of Resolution had their remains placed in halls all over Palguenia. They were designed like cathedrals and palaces, but with the victims' bones mounted in scenes that mocked their crimes and their lives. Those halls were known as the "halls of shame", museums to every offensive deed that angered the Denlotia's people.

Eventually, even the Founders and many supporters met a violent end, murdering each other for revenge over the past. Dr. Pinto himself was assassinated, and his assassin overthrown.

A new generation emerged after the initial years of terror. They rightly knew that even all that bloodshed to destroy those who would harm the youth will tear the Denlotia and expose it to its enemies, who will happily murder all of them.

So the new generation became more merciful and compassionate. They still punished certain crimes with brutality, and hated the abusive generations before the Denlotia, but were more forgiving as they wanted to focus on reformation. They wanted to reach out to the ignorant and the foolish, to help them understand what is wrong with their actions and improve.

It was this generation who sought the help of the other nations of the Denlotia, to continue the technology that preserved the advanced social conditions of their alliance, against the relentless hatred of the Terrans and empires.

## Trivia

* Four of the Founders, including Adeshola, did not take part in the killings.
	+ In fact, Adeshola refused to even attend the massacre, staying in his office to write a book to guide his supporters to be kind. Among the chapters was a line: "Are we becoming Terrans?"

## See also

* Denlotian laws
* Black July
* 3900 Pandemic, the ending of the Denlotia