Rellan Brax was born on Morellia into a household that outwardly embodied order and civic pride, yet behind closed doors was ruled by a cruel father whose mistreatment left lasting scars. His mother eventually fled with him, saving his life but not sparing him the damage. Angry, volatile, and deeply mistrustful of authority, Rellan was nonetheless pushed toward structure when his mother enrolled him in cadet training with the Morellian Enforcers, hoping discipline might temper what trauma had forged. Instead, it sharpened him. Rellan proved a capable and feared marshal—efficient, aggressive, and unwavering in his belief that order was something imposed, not negotiated.
Over time, that belief curdled into disillusionment. Rellan saw corruption masked as stability, criminals spared when profits flowed upward, and justice bent to protect the powerful. A final operation—one he refuses to discuss—made it clear that some Enforcers existed less to serve the people than to preserve a convenient lie. Refusing to shoulder blame or remain silent, Rellan betrayed the organization and vanished, reemerging as a renegade who turned his training against the Commonwealth itself. Trade routes attacked, patrols were ambushed, and from the wreckage he founded the Crimson Clawbirds: an outfit run with military discipline, enforced loyalty, and a brutal honesty he found preferable to institutional hypocrisy.
Now allied with Black Sun, Rellan wages a personal war not just for profit, but for vindication. His hatred has narrowed onto
Zyre Reid
, the current Morellian Marshal and a living symbol of everything Rellan despises: restraint, legitimacy, and the belief that authority can be clean. To Rellan, Reid represents the lie that broke him…that order can exist without cruelty. He does not seek Reid’s death for revenge alone, but to prove that the system Reid embodies is no better than the one that created a monster like him.
