Phillius the Baboon

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### Summary

Phillius, the King of Baboons, is remembered as one of the greatest threats the council of the isles has had to face, since its foundation. His lust for power and ideals of greed and conquest almost broke the isles on more than one occasion. He is most known for reforging the fabled Golden Banana in 35 BLC, destroying the Baboon Kingdom in the process, turning it into the Badlands. Later in his life, he would attach himself to other anti-council movements such as the Bananoon vs. S.I.A, while also isolating himself.

### Ascent to Power

Born prince to the powerful and rich baboon kingdom in 150 BLC, a young Phillius demonstrated both cunning and physical prowess from a young age. He was notably taller and larger than any of his baboon peers, and was selected for the mandrill hunts at juust 30. In these hunts, baboon soldiers would venture into the royal pine forests and imprison or kill any mandrill nomads or tribes they found there. It was the royal baboon edict at the time to rid the badlands of mandrills, who they viewed as impure, occult, and invaders of their righteous isle. During one of these raids on a large mandrill encampment, Phillius and his band killed the parents and extended family of a young Mondo, an action that would come back to haunt the baboon king later on. When Phillius' father, King Phyron, passed away, it is rumored that the baboon had his older brother Phulo assassinated so he could immediately step to the throne. And a great king he became.

### Reign

The Baboon peoples worshiped the charismatic Phillius when he first sat the throne of their lands in 90 BLC, and were hypnotized by his power and strength. He ruthlessly and systematically exterminated the mandrill population, forcing them out of the baboon kingdom by 80 BLC. He founded many colonies, and established farming enterprises in the southern Elder Isle, as well as military bases in the eastern isles and off the coast of the Gorilla isle. He preached Baboon supremacy, and even dabbled in the mystical arts to uphold the position of his kingdom. During those days, from 80-30 BLC, the baboons were widely considered the greatest power in the isles. They monopolized the gold market, and sold weapons and armaments to both the Chimps and Gibbons during their war with each other, garnering massive incomes.

### Downfall

Lamont and other wise council monkes prophesied Phillius' ruin, which enraged the baboon, prompting him to declare open rebellion against the council. He knew that there had been banana kings prior to the days of the council, great and powerful monkes who ruled absolutely and with total authority over the isles for thousands of years. They all wielded a legendary weapon known as The Golden Banana, which they passed down from king to king, but that had been cast into the baboon volcano by Earl, nearly 700 years ago, when he killed the last banana king, Bashur. Phillius became obsessed with the power of the golden banana, and looked to the great summit of the baboon volcano, which had been sealed by Earl in an extra precaution. He sought to overthrow the council with its power.

Gathering his most trusted Elders and magicians, as well as a fugitive orangutan mage named Gamba, Phillius summoned the power of the baboon volcano, and in 31 BLC forged the Golden Banana once more. But the orang mage proved treacherous, and stole the Banana for himself at the climax of the ritual, fleeing from the volcano and leaving Phillius and the baboon nation itself to face the errors of its unnatural ambition. The volcano erupted, obliterating nearly all of the baboon kingdom, transforming it into the ashen and deserted badlands it is today. His reputation was ruined, as had 80% of the baboon population. The baboon king, grievously injured, fled south, to a small colony near the gorilla lands, where he remained for years, slowly healing his wounds and seething with rage and guilt, after seeing his once beautiful and rich homeland reduced to ash by his own greed.

For over a hundred years, the baboons remained a suppressed race, profiled as greedy monkes and scoundrels by the rest of the isles. A monke named Creyt ruled over them, managing to bring a small dispatch of baboons back to their homelands to begin resettlement, barely keeping the tribe together.. During the LeBowian conquest, Phillius attempted to fight on the side of the council, with hopes of regaining their trust, but was spurned. He sat alone and aged in solitude, watching his people suffer and struggle, as the mandrills, sworn enemies of the baboons, became the most powerful empire in the history of the isles under the leadership of Mondo in the early days after the LeBowian Conquest. His legacy was in tatters, and his tribe equally so.

### Brief Return

That is, until an opportunity presented itself around 180 ALC, in the form of a young baboon named Dutch. Dutch reminded Phillius of himself from the days of his youth, and his hatred for the council was rekindled after over 200 years. Phillius aided Dutch in his fight against the SIA and the council, which would come to be known as the Bananoon Rebellion, and would span over a decade. But the rebellion failed, Dutch was killed, and Phillius was forced into hiding again, but this time in his baboon homelands, into which he fled to avoid the penalties of the council. While in the badlands, he was met with the shadowy ghost of Mondo projected from the shadow realm, who attempted to murder him with cold undying vengeance. But Phillius suceeded in defeating the mandrill claiming the monkes deadly relic, Woeborn, for his own in 194 ALC. He took the sword and ventured the isles in secret for a several decades, before returning to his homeland to live in solitude and reflect on his travels and familiarize himself with his people once more. It is unknown as of 230 ALC if the monke still breathes, or perhaps was killed by another vengeful ghost...