[b]The Consensus Governing System:[/b] [b][u]Head of State: The Speaker[/u][/b] Name: [b]Unknown[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]The Speaker[/b] Sex: [b]Unknown[/b] Race: [b]Unknown[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]Unknown[/b] Class: [b]Unknown[/b] Sub-Class: [b]Unknown[/b] [b][u]Advisors: Vanguard Leaders[/u][/b] Name: [b]Zavala[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]Titan Vanguard Leader, Commander[/b] Sex: [b]Male[/b] Race: [b]Awoken[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]Yes[/b] Class: [b]Titan[/b] Sub-Class: [b]Unknown[/b] Name: [b]Cayde-6[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]Hunter Vanguard Leader[/b] Sex: [b]Male[/b] Race: [b]Exo[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]Yes[/b] Class: [b]Hunter[/b] Sub-Class: [b]Unknown[/b] Name: [b]Ikora Rey[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]Warlock Vanguard Leader, Leader of The Hidden[/b] Sex: [b]Female[/b] Race: [b]Human[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]Yes[/b] Class: [b]Warlock[/b] Sub-Class: [b]Unknown[/b] [u][b]Seats: Faction Leaders[/b][/u] Name: [b]Hideo[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]New Monarchy Leader, Executor[/b] Sex: [b]Male[/b] Race: [b]Human[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]No[/b] Name: [b]Lakshmi-2[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]Future War Cult Leader, Member of the Inner Circle[/b] Sex: [b]Female[/b] Race: [b]Exo[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]No[/b] Name: [b]Jalaal[/b] Occupation/Title: [b]Dead Orbit Leader, Arach[/b] Sex: [b]Male[/b] Race: [b]Awoken[/b] Age: [b]Unknown[/b] Guardian: [b]No[/b] [b][u]Grimoire Card: Factions[/u][/b] [u]Primary Text:[/u] "They've done more good than harm. By most calculations." [u]Secondary Text:[/u] In the City's earliest days, various factions vied for the hearts and minds of the refugee masses. Power struggles threatened to shatter an already tenuous existence. [b]Excerpt from Grimoire Card: Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls[/b] [quote]Factions grew from the huddled masses. Like minds coming together to provide support, comfort. Over time these loyalties demanded loyalty. Differences that used to inform — viewpoints that when joined granted a larger understanding of the whole — became points of conflict. The sanctuary became divided. The shadow of Light grew darker. This, humanity’s last oasis, slowly fading to a mirage. [b]As in all things, some believed their views to be more right then others, not equal. Thus divisions between friends, family and strangers alike formed. This sounds almost like a retelling of Babylon, where the lack of ability to communicate with one's neighbour made completion of a masterful project, impossible.[/b] Great, powerful men and women, The Risen, stood at the Factions’ sides. Protection. Enforcers. Misused possibility. [b]The Risen; Definition: to return from the dead. The first mention of the Guardian predecessors. These Factions would use these Risen to protect and enforce the Faction's will. The need of the 'self' overruled the needs of the 'other.'[/b][/quote] The following conflicts, known as the Faction Wars, brought the City to its knees. When the chaos grew intolerable, a gathering of Guardians fought to end the conflict. The new peace brought a new order: the City Consensus and the Speaker ruled together, and the surviving great factions worked through civil channels to pursue their agendas. [b]Excerpt from Grimoire Card: Rezyl Azzir - Before These Walls[/b] [quote]Thus began an unnecessary war made necessary by greed, ambition... fear. And, in the chaos of this struggle, came the scavengers — aliens with appetites. A common enemy. [b]The Factions would have fought against the changes these rebellious Risen wanted to see. In the midst of the infighting, an enemy arrives. These 'scavengers' are most likely the Eliksni or Fallen, as the average Guardian would call them. As the enemy of my enemy is my friend so clearly states, the Factions would have put aside their differences to defend their home.[/b] In the end, the scavengers were repelled and the Factions fell, their grip broken, though their beliefs remained. This was the earliest days of the Guardians, when might found purpose. Prosperity was in reach. [b]These Guardians may have swayed the Risen to abandon the dogmatic and intolerant views of the Factions and Risen for the protection and duty of the Guardians and the Last City.[/b][/quote] That order still holds, but as the City reaches out into the frontier, the factions see new opportunities everywhere - and a chance to win over Guardians to their cause. [b]These Factions continue to thwart their rivals, and recruit Guardians to join their ranks, each attempting to gain the upper hand of the others.[/b] [u][b]Grimoire Card: Bannerfall[/b][/u] ARENA DESIGNATION: Bannerfall LOCATION: The Last City, Earth Lysander and the Concordat mark the most recent example of a City political factions rising in opposition to the Consensus. This site marks a legendary battle where New Monarchy's Guardians rose to deliver the final blow to the Concordat, unraveling the war effort Lysander sought to bring against the Vanguard. [b]The Consensus seemed more prepared to respond to a Faction uprising. I will be conducting a full investigation into Lysander and his Concordat.[/b] Lord Shaxx has commandeered the area not only to commemorate this last stand, but as a reminder of the City's solidarity against those who seek to undermine the extreme efforts and sacrifice we make together to keep our peace. [b]Bannerfall would appear to be a reminder to the Factions that their days of controlling the Last City are over.[/b]