[I will get a better ref sheet in here at some point]
Loraz Hardi is a woman looking to bring as much justice as she can into the world. She will eventually become known for failing incredibly at that task.
Loraz first seeks to bring justice by joining the Royal Guard, thinking that in that position that she can protect those that need it. While she does make it through her training, she begins to see that the Royal Guard is not as dedicated to justice and peace as it is to keeping King Jund in power. This in combination with the oppression she see's in Akrada, the obvious mismanagement of funds by the government, and the incompetence the government displays when handling the nation-wide drought grow her want for change. The straw that breaks the camels back when it comes to the Royal Guard, however is when she is given her last training task, which is working with others to prove that they can run a patrol in the Captain of the Guard--Reindal Thorney's--house. While participating in this, she is given a task by another person in the program which requires her go into Thorney's basement, where she comes across an imprisoned infernal boy, Ivvain Thedas. After managing to free him, she quits the guard and begins to get involved with an underground group of dissenters, called the Public for Glorious Freedom.
The Taerian Revolution, of which Loraz is a main figure of, truly begins after a train derails due to poor maintenance, which pushes the people to riot. The fighting truly begins when the PGF take the Royal Armory and set up an HQ in an old bathhouse, their organization and strategy becoming stronger. The two sides trade blows for a while after this, the decisive moment of the revolution comes when most of the kings army is pushed back behind the walls of the Royal Palace [will get a better name], which practically seals their fate. There is a final small hiccup when the Kings Guard manage to intercept an aid sent to the PGF, which necessitates rationing and upsets the common people, but a solution is found within relatively new PGF member Phaize Ilas.
After the success of the revolution, Loraz becomes the de facto leader of the new Republic of Taers [may also get a better name], a position which she agrees to forfeit once the country is back on its feet and in less rocky territory. However, they are invaded by the neighboring country of Catora, whom they also have an antagonistic history with. Thus, Loraz, knowing that Taers will need a strong leadership to pull them through the incoming war, tightens her hold on the government and prepares for battle.
The war with Catora is short, lasting five years and Taers basically being steamrolled, even after Loraz begs Phaize to give her an army of Walkers made of the dead bodies of their soldiers. He reluctantly does, but even this does not save them. The main leader of the invasion is Shea Tasa, the high priestess of the Church of Catora, and who is, notably, a different person the the Emperor of Catora, Syvardius Yulktar.
After breaching the walls around Akrada, Tasa spends a few months there, setting up a puppet government, where Loraz is allowed to remain as a figurehead to keep the public somewhat happy, however she is supervised by Seong Paillong, a General for hire that Tasa employed to help invade Taers.
After meeting with Loraz, Ivvain (who acted as her general and right hand man both during the revolution and the war)Phaize (who is beloved by the public and a good negotiator) and the Council (the group of people who helped Loraz found the PGF) Tasa packs up and leaves Taers, mysteriously, Phaize vanishes with her, which leaves Ivvain in a state of shock and rage.
Loraz now has to juggle attempting to rekindle and second revolt within her people, neutralizing Seong (and thus most of the Catoran forces within Akrada), reassuring Ivvain that Phaize is likely fine and making sure that he doesn’t get himself jailed by attacking another supervisor (a woman who doesn’t have a name yet but is a priestess under Tasa) who enjoys taunting him about the disappearance of his ‘friend’.
She basically manages this. Having convinced Seong, who had little loyalty to Tasa as she as simply being paid (she has more loyalty to Loraz as she managed to form a genuine romantic bond with her) to switch sides, rekindled the revolutionary spirit in the nearly beat down people of Taers, and started to push Catora out of Akrada.
However, after getting himself thrown in the palace jail for attacking the supervisor, Ivvain also disappears, leaving Loraz heartbroken and confused. No attempts to track him down turn anything up, save for a report that strange beasts, possibly walkers, had been seen roaming outside the walls of Akrada.
Loraz does manage to reclaim Taers, but now she is engaged in yet another war with Catora, one that expands as both their allies are dragged into it.
Paranoid, exhausted and willing to do anything to save her country, Loraz tightens her hold on the government again, and begins to set up surveillance with Akrada.
Not helping her fears are the reports that raids have begun to occur in Taers southern hemisphere, ones that seemingly have no connection to Catora.
Many more things happen to Loraz Hardi, but this post is long enough
Loraz will eventually, perhaps inevitably fail in her attempt to free her people. Dying a war criminal and hated by those that she tried to save, her story become a cautionary tale, though no one is quiet sure what she could’ve done to prevent its outcome.
Ivvain Thedas - her younger brother, closest confidant, best friend, and right hand man.
Seong Paillong - a lover, friend and respected informer who was never afraid to challenge her ideas.
Phaize Ilas - a dear friend who she would’ve loved to get to know outside a war
