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Juventia Shail was a pure-blood Magicar witch and both a high-ranking officer and legendary strategist in the Empire of Night's army, then the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät, holding the position of general. Brought up as the daughter of skilled tacticians to the Grand Army of the United Alliance of Magical Races like she herself would become for the Imperial state, Juventia Shail was taught to strictly value the law and order promoted by the Empire that she grew up to serve and, being an accomplished student in her middle school's preparatory courses, was selected to attend the prestigious Royal Imperial Academy, where she would be additionally hand-picked for the Future Imperial Leaders Military Preparatory Program before graduating to follow a career leading to a distinguished General in the Imperial Army. An experienced battle strategist and military leader from her time as a member of the Death Eaters, Juventia Shail fought for her master, the Dragon Lord, in the Second Global Wizarding War, but survived and continued to serve his Empire under the command of High Lieutenant Darkness Magicar, by which time Juventia Shail was involved in efforts made to scout and map the Unknown Regions in preparation of what was the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency Contingency Plan.
An important officer of the Death Eaters, in the aftermath of the Liberation of Lothal, the disappearance of Darkness and subsequently collapse of Imperial influence throughout the outer rim of conquered territories, Juventua Shail was declared a wanted fugitive by the United Alliance of Magical Races, but escaped to the Balkan kingdom of Syldavia, where she found refuge and a new place of leadership among members of the Death Eaters implanted within the Kingdom and its rival neighbour, Borduria, who collectively formed the Z.Z.R.K., or Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät. Retaining her position as a general, she was made privy to a planned offensive against the International Confederation of Wizards made by Igor Müsstler and his council of leadership, who sought to overthrow the rule of King Muskar XIII and instigate his kingdom's annexation with Borduria, who's separate governments now acted only as a face for their authority. Even though she herself was not part of the network of Death Eater spies that were interwoven into the Bordurian military, Juventia's position within the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät gave her a range of authority over the country's Armed Forces and Shail herself would personally go on to mentor Commandant Camilla Rajković, who she recruited to the Z.Z.R.K. and made part of the Bordurian Special Forces. In 2026, Juventia dispatched her protégé to secure a Tesseract-fuelled weapon after it was discovery by archeologists and, upon learning of the presence of the agency S.H.I.E.L.D., Shail also dispatched the rebels from the Burning Path guerrillas — who were also controlled by the Z.Z.R.K. — to attack the site and provide her men an appropriate excuse to accompany S.H.I.E.L.D. in transporting the weapons, resulting in a battle that got Rajković captured.
When the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät was exposed during its attempt to take power in Syldavia and began to fracture into various holdouts, Shail emerged from the immediate chaos as leader to a significant remnant that had, among its resources, control over the Seawrecker Ascent and would subsequently attend a secret summit at Muyrra called by Grand Admiral Bella Tvezda, joining the Future Iron Guard Council along with several other important figures in the Z.Z.R.K. remaining hierarchy. A pragmatic individual who acknowledged that their enemies had legitimate grievances with the Death Eaters, Shail held the opinion that the Z.Z.R.K. would not be able to win in its current state and that they should perhaps surrender to the United Alliance in order to survive, believing that by joining the government, they could again use their talents to better the world. When the administration of Muyrra found itself facing a civilian uprising, which coincided with an attack launched by the United Alliance, however, General Shail and the rest of the Council, which had opted to unofficially nominate Bella Tvezda as their leader, would successfully escape and flee to the Contrecoeur region in northmost boundaries of Syldavia, where Juventia and the other summit attendees formed their remnant's first generation of leaders, although their authority would be ultimately supplanted by Dean McAbin, leaving Shail's absence from the Death Eaters to be lamented on by Esteban Flores.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Born to a long line of military tacticians, Juventia was the daughter of veterans that had served the roles of strategic consultants to the war leaders of the Grand Army of the United Alliance of Magical Races through the insurrection of the Blood Lilies before departing in an exodus that occurred after the war's end and saw the former Dragon Rider Isaac Nasser led his earliest followers to bring order to the Northern Kingdoms after they collapsed into anarchy following the demise of King Hou-Tor and eventually reorganize them into the independent Empire of Night, a regime that was joined by large collection of other dissatisfied countries that had seceded from the United Alliance to instead pledge their allegiance, like the Shail bloodline, to Nasser, who would assume not only the mantle of leadership to the Empire, but also the alternative name, 'the Dragon Lord'. Brought up in a household that strongly adhered to various military elements that commanded how their state was run, the older relatives of Juventia Shail taught her to value the crucial need for law and order in the world that they lived in, and she grew up in an atmosphere that eschewed the model of democracy that was upheld by the United Alliance, instead favouring the imperialized version that belonged to the Empire. From the age of five, she was made to ensure that her bedroom reached the level of tidiness that her parents expected of her and by the time she was twelve, Juventia was receiving private military lessons undertaken at the behest of her mother and father, who sought to have their daughter follow in their footsteps.
Juventia Shail studied to serve in the Imperial Army at the Royal Imperial Academy, the most prestigious military training institution the Empire had to offer.
By this time, Shail had already developed a fascination for war tactics, which she soon discovered she had an inborn skill at devising in later years. This came with hours of study in her mother's personal library, which included various texts chronicling the strategies employed in historic conflicts throughout wizarding and Muggle worlds. She also enjoyed gardening, a passion shared by an elderly neighbour that was friends with Mrs. Shail and had invited the family over to tea every second Sunday. During these outings, Juventia Shail would enjoy cutting topiaries with her neighbour, looking back at it as one of the few times where she could let her hair down. When she reached her middle school years, Juventia Shail was involved in Nassera's Imperial Academy for Promising Students, an eminent military program that, for its best and brightest, offered the chance of potential enrollment inside the even more prestigious Royal Imperial Academy, who's alumni included many famed personnel of the Imperial Military and members of the Death Eaters that served the Dragon Lord himself. Since she was a resident of the capital city, Ba Sing Se, which also housed the Royal Imperial Academy's campus, and as the daughter of prestigious veterans that had retired from the Imperial forces with full honours, Juventia Shail was allowed to visit the university on special occasions and on the nights after such events, she would fall to sleep dreaming about one day walking through its halls as a cadet. This dream would become an eventual reality when Juventia passed with grades that earned her a place in the student body of this institution, although she realised that this opportunity was not nearly as rare for her as it was for students selected from countries the Death Eaters had recently conquered and annexed for the Northern Empire. For such cases, the chances for enrollment were more limited because of the tenuous position that their homelands had beneath the new regime, which Shail felt was unfair.
The training that Juventia Shail received at the academy was rigorous and saw fierce competition between her and her fellow students, who were challenged in ways that tested their mental, physical and emotional limits, weeding out the substandard in a matter of weeks. Because of how she showed exemplary talents in various fields, Juventia was one of a small few inside her grade that were also selected for the Future Imperial Leaders Military Preparatory Program, an initiative set in place to hone the talents of individuals that were representatives of the Death Eaters believed had the potential of being future lead members of their organization, a prediction that came true in her case. The future officer had a healthy rivalry with many of the other selected and after graduating, Juventia joined the ground forces of the Empire, the Imperial Army. Because of her later career, a numerous of the successes that she accomplished during her education and afterwards became required studies for the future generations of trainees.
Imperial Service[]
Juventia Shail, General of the Empire.
In the aftermath of her graduation, Juventia Shail would swiftly ascend through the ranks of the Imperial forces, which were by then in the process of enacting a vast military buildup programme, augmenting and creating additional subunits and fleets to add to their immense arsenal while marshalling and mobilizing the Death Eaters as troops that were intended for future battles with the United Alliance of Magical Races, who the states of the Empire were now embroiled for a tense standoff against. Although still young, Juventia was able to surpass even the reputation of her parents as a brilliant military strategist that was an essential part of numerous campaigns and movements against enemies of the New Order, personally overseeing the takeover over several entire nations during the Imperial Expansion, wherein which she led forces in countrywide attacks that typically saw the targeted landmasses in question — their defences having been weakened to the point of non-existence by the simultaneous attacks launched on every major community by sleeper agents implanted within them for years — to fall before the merciless strength of the Dragon Lord after a matter of hours, then continued to remained involved with the subsequent occupations that followed. As part of the Imperial Military, Juventia Shail was by extension a member of the Death Eaters and wore their tattooed insignia — the Mark of the Wolf — since she received it at the age of ten and later participated in the Second Global Wizarding War, where she fought as a commanding officer in the Army of Night, holding the rank of General. During the first year of worldwide warfare, General Shail would be among those that assembled at Nurmengard in 2002 to bear witness to a speech delivered by the Dragon Lord to his followers. Standing with a few of her fellow Imperial officers, she watched in silence as the dark wizard declared that the time that the Death Eaters implanted within the wizarding and Muggle worlds had long awaited was upon them, assuring Shail and the others that a new era was about to begin that would see the laws of magical secrecy torn down and wizardkind brought out of hiding, although the revolution would ultimately fail to deliver on its promise, the Second Global Wizarding War having concluded in a defeat for the Death Eaters, who saw their master the Dragon Lord left in a state of weakness that forced him to withdraw from the realms to recover, leaving care and leadership of his forces to his partner and right-hand witch High Lieutenant Darkness Magicar, who sought to continue their vision, resulting in another war breaking out which Shail again participated in as a leading figure in the Imperial forces.
At an unspecified point, there would come a time where General Juventia Shail was approached and recruited to provide her skills and assistance to the esoteric dispatchment of Imperial scouts that, over the course of more than a decade, had been sent by the Dragon Lord on secret reconnaissance missions undertaken to explore and map the uncharted expanse of waters known as the Unknown Regions in preparation for an emergency plan of action known simply as the 'Contingency'. Devised and formatted in deepest secret by Shail's emperor to ensure the survival and reemergence of the regime that he and others like the war tactician's parents had cultivated from a country ruled by anarchy, Juventia Shail's knowledge of the Contingency and its intention were, as was the case with most involved, kept strictly compartmentalized in order to ensure its continued advancement and survival beyond her own capture or death, the scope of her understanding remaining largely confined to matters that pertained to the organizing of scouting expeditions and subsequent charted of specific resources funnelled into the Unknowns. Like most, however, she understood the Contingency at least in the vaguest sense, namely that it was a procedure set in place to allow an exclusive collection of the Dragon Lord's "elect" to flee into the Unknown Regions, were there to come a time where the furthest regions of Imperial control were liberated and build up forces for a two-sided invasion against their enemies, which Shail acknowledged as being a master stroke in tactical foresight, despite her own personal reservations about what kind of effect such isolation could have on the mind of the scouts, as many that were sent exhibited a fierce devotion to the Dragon Lord that Juventia feared could evolve into wild religious worship if left to its own devices in the wilderness of the furthest reaches. The Contingency, which fell under the command of Darkness and her own apprentice Esteban Flores, also sought to incorporate only the best of the Empire's personnel stationed in the Outer Territories into its theoretical Empire-in-waiting and though Shail's value in the field of battle strategy was without question (with some Death Eaters theorising she could even go up against the calculated mind of High Lieutenant Darkness), her critical attitude and opposition towards several projects that the Death Eaters undertook under Darkness saw Shail shunted to the side in the organization's hierarchy. Two projects that Shail had spoken up against had been the Lodestar Initiative that Gisela Sencen had headed, and the plot that had been led by Darkness and Fintan Pyren to free and recruit Vespera Folend, an ancient dark witch that had been previously imprisoned in Lumenaria, although both were undertaken regardless. The Phoenix-Dragon Squadron rebel movement in the Outermost Territories was also a major point of disagreement within the Imperial High Command, but while various other Imperial leaders dismissed the belief that the rebels could ever pose any true threat to the Empire's grip, General Shail belonged to a smaller camp of others that genuinely respected their enemy as a true, well-equipped foe. She understood the drive of the United Alliance of Magical Races to be borne from moral imperative, which would motivate them to succeed in spite of inferior vehicles of war and munitions.
Shail had also spoken with disapproval of the Empire's sanctioning Viceroy Tiber Saxon's attempt to recreate the Arc Pulse Generator once designed by Freddy Lupin, although this had also gone ahead, and later on, she believed that the decision to increase Imperial authority over Lothal had drawn the attention of the Phoenix-Dragon Squadron to Darkness's secret TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Skyfighter Initiative (which Shail had once been a tacit supporter to) was a mistake. Though Shail was ignored and her position marginalized, she was correct, for using the TIE Defender project as bait indirectly brought for its destruction and the battle that later broke out to liberate Lothal from the Death Eaters' grasp, which saw purrgil whales controlled by Catra D'Memirel carry the Chimaera into the Unknown Regions with not only her, but also Darkness inside, effectively crippling the highest leadership of the Empire of Night and sparked the events that set the Outermost Territories against the Empire, which was rolled back to secure lands by the United Alliance of Magical Races, the remainder of its forces that had been abandoned in the newly liberated landmasses fracturing into warlord-led remnants. In addition, Juventia was also previously acquainted with Generals Muir Fischer and Helen Hale, who were both moles for the Death Eaters implanted within the United States Air Force and after Fischer's identity as a sleeper agent was exposed in 2016, he contacted Shail over a private line to ensure an unknown matter of business was fulfilled. Watching while her fellow general worked frantically to destroy any incriminating evidence, the conversation between the two ended with Shail offering a word of farewell to Fischer, then switching off her connection as Hale arrived. Another contact of Shail was Esteban Flores himself and on several occasions over the years, private meetings between the General of the Imperial Army and Darkness's protégé, as well as the latter's fiancée, Pellimore Ygryk, were noted inside the Imperial database.
Leader in the Z.Z.R.K.[]
Attempt to secure a 0-8-4[]
Although the disappearance of Darkness and collapse of their influence within the outermost territories saw the Death Eaters go underground, the organization and their ideology survived through the leadership of strict and fanatical adherents to the principles of the New Order and the phrase 'Long rule the Master', who simply moved their operations into the shadows, waging an unspoken cold war against the International Confederation of Wizards and United Alliance of Magical Races, their most prominent chapters joined by the various Imperial "war criminals" that had escaped capture by the United Alliance and fled to the wizarding-Muggle world, seeking sanctuary with the many cells of their organisation that continued to exist. Juventia Shail was one of those Imperials that remained loyal to the beaten-back Empire, despite her own misgivings regarding some of its more draconian tactics, and subsequently escaped to the Balkan Peninsula, where she joined the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät, a sub-division of the Death Eaters that were implanted throughout the Kingdom of Syldavia and state of Borduria, who possessed a muggle and magical government that the Z.Z.R.K. had been able to suborn as the first phase of their plan to establish the power of their master over the two countries. The great knowledge of military strategy that Shail harboured was recognized by Igor Müsstler — the man that was the appointed supreme commander of Z.Z.R.K. — as being an invaluable tool for his plans to orchestrate the annexation of Syldavia with Borduria and she was subsequently made a high-ranking member of his forces' military branch.
While her position in the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät granted her no official rank in the military forces of the Bordurian state, as one of the figures tasked with overseeing the preparations made to lead the stratocratic government for an invasion of its country's south-western rival, Shail wielded the powers of an informal major general in the chain of command established with agents of the Z.Z.R.K. and those of their puppets and sympathisers that were woven in to occupy all ruling points of governing and military authority. As such, though her rank was one that was not formally acknowledged, the good General controlled Bordurian troops that accepted her orders without protest, wishing either to earn her pride or deflect her ire, which she was known for. Inside the ranks of the national military — now controlled from the shadows by those like Juventia — Shail came across Camilla Rajković, a young officer in the armed forces that she found to be promising. Because of this feeling, she took Camilla under her wing and, though the full detail of their regard to one another is unclarified, the younger woman would show a fairly strong loyalty to her senior in both years and rank, while Shail had faith in Rajković's abilities, their association being one described as that of an experienced master and her pupil. Eventually, Camilla was introduced and inducted into the Death Eaters as one of their operatives, a decision that was possibly made at her apparent mentor's proposal. To further enforce the groundwork for a functioning state created from the over and ensure that it had support the common populace and within regions where control would generally be noticeably lacking, a fact that her experiences in the Otherworld had taught her to scrutinize with caution, Juventia Shail would pull strings to authorize the creation a specialized new unit of the Bordurian Armed Forces formed under her personal jurisdiction and specifically from Z.Z.R.K. implants that the General handpicked to establish their influence throughout the Bordurian regions and ensure that it remained absolute. Her experiences with the rebellions that she had previously faced, however, had led Shail to the belief that the loyalty of the people that one ruled would be far more easily secured if gained through love and admiration, rather than fear and despotism. Thus, the operations that the Bordurian Special Forces, while acting in the name of the government, would cover various relief efforts and the persecution of active criminal elements, thus establishing fair law and order, but at the same time, Juventia ensured that the civilian loyalties secured from such acts were for the new reign that the Death Eaters were shaping, rather than towards the powers that be who were currently seen as the dominant rule of law in the country. This was done to ensure that the average Bordurian citizen would happily support a reorganization of their leadership to fit the vision of the Dragon Lord, rather than rebel against it to restore the puppet administration. One of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät members recruited to the division was Camilla Rajković, who was eventually made a Voivode.
In response to the reported discovery of an object that she knew to be a Death Eater-crafted weapon, Juventia Shail dispatched the Bordurian Special Forces to retrieve it under the command of Camilla Rajković.
Sometime around the mid-year of 2026, Juventia Shail was alerted by the Bordurian Ministry of Magic of an artifact discovered in the jungle areas of the Vezchôna region that was described as being both dangerous and of unknown origin. Having made extensive studies into the history behind Borduria's relationship with the Death Eaters, General Shail was aware that scientists belonging to the Z.Z.R.K. had once been commissioned by the government to create a weapon fuelled from an energy source modelled after the Tesseract that had been lost shortly after completion during a battle that occurred in those very jungles. With this mind, she therefore assessed that the reported item was the lost weapon, which she wanted to secure for the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät and thus set up a team to attempt to secure it, charging Camilla Rajković with leading the mission. Being the tactical genius that she was, Shail was also quick to determine that those in the Bordurian wizarding administration not under the thumb of the Z.Z.R.K. might notify the International Confederation of Wizards and therefore also contacted the Burning Path guerilla group, which had strong ties to her organization, and ordered a number of their local members to go to the location where the weapon had been discovered with orders to attack if any other governmental group appear to secure the object, thus allowing Camilla and her soldiers to fight them off and gain trust from their rivals. The group-in-question that arrived to investigate and obtain the device turned out to be a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents led by Baatar Jnr., an old friend and former love interest of Camilla's, and though the attack by the Burning Path rebels allowed the Special Forces agents to board the Bus II without incident, they were thwarted in their attempt to hijack the aircraft and therefore taken into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody before the government relinquished the captured witches and wizards to Bordurian hands. However, though Camilla failed to secure the item she had been sent to collect, which was later destroyed by S.H.I.E.L.D., she concealed the fact that she owed her allegiance to the Death Eaters, cleverly phrasing her wording to imply she was acting in interests of the Bordurian Ministry of Magic alone, thus protecting the Z.Z.R.K., a fact that Shail assessed while she decided to her subordinates' punishment.
General Juventia Shail attended a summit in the Syldavian-Bordurian Borderlands to discuss the future of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät alongside other important figures inside the organisation.
With impending preparations to take action coming closer to an opening, Juventia Shail remained one of the highest-ranking directors of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät and their military aspects, overseeing operations that were considered important to the organisation and its future. Sometime during the winter months of 2029, she was invited to participate in a meeting that Grand Admiral Bella Tvezda had called between several prominent power players among the Z.Z.R.K. to discuss the impending designs for constructing a new Imperial state within the Balkan Peninsula that was spun off the New Order. Hosted at a military compound on Raven's Peak, in addition to Shail and Tvezda, attendance to the summit was also extended to Admiral Bohrus Cheafol, General Horst Rielvild, Commander Oshtin Korrick of the Weapons Research Commission and Doctor Reece Nightshade of the Technologist Advanced Division, who were each ferried to the fortress aboard Rho-class Transport Shuttles. Arriving at the site before a time where she could be considered late, the general was subsequently escorted to the meeting room and waited with her fellow leaders until Nightshade arrived at the proceedings later than was scheduled, for which he was admonished for by the Grand Admiral while Shail looked on in silence. As the discussions began and Rielvild put forth his ideas that the widespread deployment of their military forces would establish a secure presence for the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät throughout Borduria, Juventia exchanged meaningful glances with Admiral Tvezda before returning her gaze to the conversation, listening with raised eyebrows as the naval leader herself then addressed the responsibilities that she and the other officials present had to ensure that Syldavia and Borduria accepted a smooth transitioning of centralised power without difficulties, elaborating on her opinions that those seated around her — Shail included — needed to establish a comprehensive strategy for international unification before voicing her inquiries about what progress the Technologist Advanced Division had made within its own studies, which Shail voiced her own interest for, noting that Reece Nightshade and his work had aroused the curiosities of her and their colleagues.
As Nightshade spoke about the research that his assets were conducting into scientific fields of genetic replication were a source of interest for the Dragon Lord and explained their usage of detained clone troopers as test subjects for these experiments, General Shail demonstrated visible discomfort with such thoughts, sharing wordless glances with Admiral Cheafol before her naval counterpart voiced his unease towards using such proud and faithful soldiers as lab rats and asked aloud about whether the Imperial leaders were prepared to dismiss the countless years of loyal service that such clones had given to their empire, which the general agreed with, although she made no effort to add her own voice to such protests, aware that her limited experience with the clone troopers would undermine the voices of protest. Though Tvezda eased their concerns about triggering a possible clone uprising from among their own Imperial ranks, Juventia Shail nevertheless continued to demonstrate her aversion for such experimentation throughout the remainder of the presentation, rubbing her chin thoughtfully as she listened before conversation moved onto discussions concerning the ongoing efforts of Project Starburn, which she watched Director Korrick explain with eagerness.
Future Iron Guard Council[]
Discussing the future[]
In preparation for the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät's attack against Syldavia, Shail received letters from Igor Müsstler detailing her assigned role in the coup.
Shortly before the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät intended to put their plans for an insurrection into action in 2027, General Shail would meet personally with her leader, Igor Müsstler, to discuss matters regarding how their Bordurian agents were marshalling the state's military for war. A designated 'Section Commander' in their seizure of power, Juventia was provided with a set of blue papers detailing her organisation's intention to capture and secure all sites of governmental and economic importance on St. Vladimir's Day, as well as outlining the role she would play in such acts. However, just when the Iron Guard were only hours from transmitting activation signals to their immediate sleeper network and therefore initiating their coup against King Muskar XIII, the Scepter of King Ottokar IV (which their agents had previously stolen) was returned to the castle by the United Hero Blake Rainborn, who brought with him papers he had secured from a Z.Z.R.K. operative similar to those that Shail had received, baring Müsstler's signature and thus incriminating the Royal Ambassador of Syldavia as a traitor, resulting in his arrest and the capture or deaths of many other major officials. With their leadership in pieces and their organisation now on the offensive from their enemies, the Death Eaters that formed the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät collapsed into division and disorder, its various political, military and religious elements splintering to form separate factions known collectively as 'Z.Z.R.K. Remnants'. Escaping the initial series of investigations and arrests that followed Müsstler's capture, Juventia Shail and her subordinates would find their location under siege from the defence forces of the United Alliance of Magical Races but would ultimately emerge alive thanks to the leadership of Shail, who refused to take the coward's way out and abandon her people when they most needed her. This sense of duty and loyalty was a quality that the general would find was not shared by some of her colleagues, including one Governor Varban Polydamna, who Shail learnt had abandoned his mansion and the soldiers defending it to the mercy of the United Alliance while he fled, which she regarded with distain. Rising to become leader of a remnant of the decentralised Z.Z.R.K. that emerged as one of the largest immediate splinter factions to take rise, Juventia Shail's forces would gain control of the Imperial-class Seawrecker Ascent, which she kept fully crewed, despite the losses and defections that the Death Eaters of Syldavia suffered, forming a mobilised fleet which counted Ascent as its central command and Shail's personal flagship.
In was at the invitation of Grand Admiral Bella Tvezda that General Shail and her remnant travelled to Uplua so as to attend the Death Eaters' Muyrra emergency summit.
In the months following the destruction of the Z.Z.R.K., Juventia Shail survived the continued pursuit being made by the Syldavian Ministry of Magic for the key players in Müsstler's widespread power ploy and was later contacted by Grand Admiral Bella Tvezda, who extended an invitation to the general, requesting her presence in an emergency summit held in Muyrra, capital city of the archipelagic state of Uplua, who's government owed its very foundations to the advice of an enigmatic mysterious benefactor that was none other than the Death Eaters' master the Dragon Lord himself and had thus abided sycophantically when the request was made by Tvezda. The intent of the meeting being to determine — with the input of General Shail and her peers as a brain trust — how best to coalesce their separate factions into a single fighting force and devise the next logical course of action, Shail and her armada would then set a course for Uplua that sent them steering first into the Adriatic Sea as a strategic means to throw any enemy trackers off the Death Eaters' scent before the remnant — Ascent at its head — glided into the safe waters of the Upluaian archipelago, where its ships assembled with the significant naval power that was formed from the six factions of the splintered Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät that saw themselves represented in the conclave. Proceeding ahead from her Seawrecker on board a private Lambda-class shuttle accompanied by a security outfit of TIE fighters that docked on the landing grounds set aside for her and the other delegates by the servile Satrap Iraj Bagherzadeh, Juventia Shail's transport arrived concurrently with those belonging to Varban Polydamna, Oswin Cineus (who had prior to the coup been a spy for the Death Eaters within the muggle Royal Court) and the former Imperial advisor Yamai Pehuen, who Shail would meet and mingle with upon landing, exiting her shuttle in the company of two Death Eaters that had previously been moles inside King Muskar XIII's royal guard, her military posture straight backed and perfect. Shail arrived at the palace dressed in a grey military uniform she wore in reference to her status as a General in the Imperial Army and wore her dark hair in an austere bun.
While Juventia Shail and the other arrivals, who also included the financial manager Arman Parastui, spoke with both each other and the Satrap, who's court had gathered in welcome, they were unknowingly watched by Night Light, a tracker for both the Phoenix-Dragon Squadron, then the United Alliance of Magical Races, who contemplated capturing one of the Z.Z.R.K. leaders before her, but hesitated due to her desire to find a way to capture all the leaders in one swoop. Night Light, however, was attacked by the lately arrived Tvezda's shuttle, forcing her to flee while her attacker proceeded to land and make her way into the entrance hall, where Shail, the other warlords and the local nobles had gone into. Rushing with the others to greet the Grand Admiral, who she demanded answers regarding the gunfire outside from, Shail quietened stiffly when Varban Polydamna made his own inquiry, which was silently noted down by Tvezda as she assessed the potential rivalry for supreme leadership among her peers. Remaining silent while Yamai Pehuen exclaimed besides her over Bella Tvezda's justification that her actions had been to remove the presence of a "local insurgent", Juventia, along with the other Z.Z.R.K. members and Death Eater affiliates, allowed themselves to be swayed by Tvezda, who politely proposed the visitors take the moment to enjoy the banquet made for their arrival by order of Satrap Bagherzadeh. Sharing a subsequent nod with her fellow military official as Bella Tvezda passed her when they, along with the crowd, was steered to the dining table, after seating herself, General Juventia Shail set aside a small plate of food for herself but appeared wary of touching it from Tvezda's point of view. As the assembly was addressed by the Grand Admiral, who begun by addressing how the so-called 'rebels' of the United Alliance and Order of the Phoenix were supposedly promoting their government's power through media coverage, Juventia was the first Death Eater to cut in, suggesting in a voice she toned just loud enough to be heard that the United Alliance supposed 'lies' might really not be all that fictional and wondered if the Death Eaters were actually developing false beliefs themselves, earning her a glare from Polydamna, while Tvezda continued on unabashed. The Imperial strategist was also concerned about the safety of the emergency summit when it was revealed by the former governor that the Admiral-turned-Z.Z.R.K. leader had captured the United Alliance pilot Yendor, who was brought before the leaders in a sedated state by several of Tvezda's soldiers, and Shail listened as the Twi'lek was declared a means for either interrogation or negotiation for safe passage, which was mocked by Varban. Having risen to her feet with the others as Tvezda then dismissed them until the night, where their discussions would officially meet, Shail made no comment as the coalition — christened by Bella Tvezda as being the Iron Guard Future Council — was deemed responsible for deciding the future of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät.
Juventia Shail attends the first meeting of the Future Iron Guard Council, where she argued against squandering their resources in futile acts of patriotic pride.
When the Iron Guard Future Council was called to order several hours later in a meeting attended only by the new councillors themselves (including Juventia Shail), the appointed scribe and Iraj Bagherzadeh, they learnt — after brief discussion between Yamai Pehuen and Varban Polydamna regarding the interrogation — that Death Eater forces had shot down two United Alliance A-wings. Unlike Arman Parastui, who responded with terror at potential United Alliance retaliation, Juventia Shail remained calm and composed in her uniform, bending forward to ask for Bella Tvezda to elaborate on the unconventional plan she had assured the council that she had conceived, which was to move their assembled forces to a location that would allow for them to be poised to return if Uplua was attacked by Syldavian forces, but would keep their ships out of the range of their opponents' optic and far-sweeping sensors. Though Polydamna responded derisively with the counterproposal of deploying their only Super Seawrecker Cometfire, which was under Bella Tvezda's command, in a show of force, Juventia Shail replied forcefully disagreed with her fellow Council member's belief that they had the resources and manpower to engage in open conflict with the local Ministry, the United Alliance and S.H.I.E.L.D., pounding the table the group sat around with a clenched fist. Instead, Juventia Shail likened the Third Global Wizarding War to a game of chess that had all its pieces on the board and spoke of several of High Lieutenant Darkness Magicar's actions with criticism, likening the focus placed by the Empire of Night on the Spectres alone and projects like the TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Skyfighter Initiative as being the 'Empresses' of the metaphorical game, which she also applied to how much effort and people had been put into Igor Müsstler's coup. Though Varban demanded that she not speak as if the Cold War that had emerged after Lothal was like a board game, Juventia insisted it was a "game with very high stakes". Shail knew that if the reincarnation of Z.Z.R.K. created through the Iron Guard Future Council's cooperation was to survive, then its members must second-guess how their enemies would act and she theorized that the United Alliance's General Kuvira d'Lestrange (who she credited as being a tactical genius in war strategy) would not risk further loss of life by sending an immediate military force to Uplua but would instead dispatch either a drone ship or a droid, which Bella Tvezda agreed on. Theorising that a probe sent at a distance that would allow such a scout to detect any warships in the area, but escape to safety before the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät could attack, Juventia reminded the Council that in their continued war with the Order of the Phoenix, the Death Eaters in Syldavia were on a footing that they could not afford to lose, listing aloud the various assets that the Z.Z.R.K. had squandered or seen captured by opposing groups, such as supply depots, weapons factories, ships and refineries. In the light of the Imperial losses suffered in the years since the Liberation of Lothal, Juventia urged her comrades not to waste more of their forces without true purpose, openly questioning as to whether the likes of Varban Polydamna, as great a patriot of the Empire as he was, was prepared to risk such needless misspending.
As a woman who stood by her beliefs, Juventia Shail stayed unflinchingly as Varban Polydamna railed against her and Bella Tvezda, besmirching both officers as recreants who sat upon the unused artillery that came with the Cometfire. Instead, when their opponent attempted to make his war path a reality by invoking the equal vote of all members of the Iron Guard Future Council had, Shail and Tvezda's proposal to move their combined fleet instead received support from Oswin Cineus and Yamai Pehuen, despite objections from Parastui and Polydamna, who the Grand Admiral cowed into submission through the sheer force of her personality, while Shail looked on without further comment. As the meeting continued to drag on and individual suggestions regarding how next the Council should act were proposed and either set aside for in-depth discover or discarded, Shail sat stiffly, but voiced open disagreement with Parastui' recommendation that they plunder the Z.Z.R.K.'s now-limited coffers in order to bribe the Syldavian populace. Declaring that the money Arman was proposing they use would win them neither their lost secrecy nor the hearts and minds of the population, Juventia reminded the banker that since the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät's exposure, the accounts it had controlled had grown more compromised and depleted. When the reply from Parastui was that they could plunder the national bank, Shail expressed nothing but distain for the idea, fearing that such an act would plunge the Kingdom into a recession, which she voiced in a barked huff, commenting in a voice dripping with sarcasm that such as act would most certainly win back to the Death Eaters the confidence of the wizarding people. Shail was also skeptical of Parastui's idea that the Death Eaters establish a truce with the Crown, forging from the outlying regions wherein their supporters congregated to create a splinter state of the Kingdom of the Black Pelican formed around the elements of the Northern Empire, which its money-minded originator told Shail would only officiate the cold war Arman believed the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät was already locked in against the likes of S.H.I.E.L.D. The former General of the Imperial Army — who compared the idea of such a breakaway nation to cleaving a metaphorical wall through the center of Syldavia — rolled her eyes at this. Instead, Shail argued that their enemies was not in a mood for peace with the Z.Z.R.K. and would not content itself with allowing the recently exposed Death Eaters to flee to the Wild Reaches like others of their kind had before them, since they were more interested in trying Imperial leaders as war criminals, claiming some would face execution while others were jailed. Though condemned by Parastui for how she had lambasted the Empire's war tactics, despite her past as a vital Imperial strategist, Juventia — as she had at a previous discussion — reminded all that she was not the only war councillor to oversee the Death Eaters' actions in the Third Global Wizarding War, nor had she been given supreme influence over such matters, recalling how her opposition of various decisions — such as the freeing and recruitment of Vespera Folend, the Lodestar Initiative and the Duchess's creation — had marginalised her authority. Shail also criticized Darkness's warmongering 'crusade against the rebellion' as a colossal waste of resources and slammed the High Lieutenant for her arrogance. Juventia's remarks unnerved the Imperial advisor Yamai, who was also an adherent to the Dark Arts, but several of her words were a reflection of Varban Polydamna's own feelings, the governor reluctantly agreeing with the general regarding the mistakes previously made by the Empire of Night.
Though she was their enemy, Juventia Shail recognized the legitimate complaints that the Dragon-Phoenix Squadron rebellion had on the former Imperial rule.
This nonetheless sparked yet another argument between the pragmatic Shail and the patriotic Polydamna. When the nobleman declared that since any notions of peace was unachievable, the Council should respond with violence, Juventia showed exasperation, assuring Varban that his wish to attack no matter the cost would gain the Death Eaters nothing but mounting losses, although when asked if she would instead opt to surrender herself knowing full well the inevitable execution that would come, she responded by dismissing the notion that the Z.Z.R.K. would be considered a group of "scrappy, ragtag underdogs" working to bring down an oppressive regime, since their own actions had condemned them to being viewed as the villains, rather than the heroes. Shail also disagreed with Polydamna's view that the rebels were terrorist and criminals and argued that they had been motivated by legitimate grievances towards the Empire in the outermost territories, including oppression and the enslavement of subcultures, which had given the rebels the narrative that history would remember. Furthermore, Shail felt that in her effort to make the Dragon Lord's authority absolute, Darkness had to her become a madwoman who Shail suspected of coveting the forbidden arts of ancient magic, despite the High Lieutenant's professional approach to situations. When Varban responded that her remarks were worthy of death, had she spoken them in 'a better day', Shail responded that the governor's remark simple confirmed her very point, namely that the Death Eaters had become the executioners rather than the saviours. Lacking a meaningful strategy or plan of counterattack against Syldavia, she suggested that the Iron Guard Future Council should surrender themselves to the United Alliance of Magical Races, which she theorized might take into account their value and thus offer them a place in it that could allow them to continue to better the world, in reference to the Amnesty Program. She further remained unimpressed when Varban Polydamna declared that the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät still had the upper hand with its various assets, arguing that the Death Eaters' actions placed them on the wrong side of history, as proven by the defections and celebrations by citizens of liberated countries that the organisation had seen. Shail and the others listened when Yamai Pehuen recommended that their remnants of the Z.Z.R.K. flee to the Unknown Regions and find those who their master — with the aid of Shail and others like her — had sent before. Though she did not find the concept laughable, when Yamai declared that the Iron Guard Future Council must take the path of ancient magic and make it their saviour, just as their master had before, Juventia Shail questioned aloud how such a feat could be achieved, presuming from Pehuen's word choice that the advisor was implying they use the Elemental Arts to continue the Z.Z.R.K. in some way that was beyond her. The very thought was openly questioned by Shail, who asked how the other councillor thought they could act on this, as the feat he was proposing was one none of achieve, since, as she observed none present were, it her knowledge, able to tune into the powers best known historically to have been wielded by the Dragon Riders, she then again engaged in vocal competition with the other council members (baring Bella Tvezda) over which idea they should employ. This ceaseless struggle infuriated the Grand Admiral, who departed briefly to collect herself, although Tvezda was unsure if any of the group noticed her leaving the room.
After learning the following morning that the Death Eaters' ships had downed a United Alliance transport beyond the Upluaian archipelago, Juventia Shail and the other leaders, who had already assembled to continue their discussions, were again wrapped in arguments spurred by the differing opinions of each person, including the Imperial general, who inwardly felt disgusted by how her organisation's leadership had been largely reduced to this squabbling rabble. Not comforted by the assurances of Iraj Bagherzadeh, when Bella Tvezda, who had arrived late, claimed the situation's immediate danger had been tied off, Shail beheld Polydamna advocate they get ready for a fleet battle between the delegates' Imperial forces and the United Alliance. Polydamna dreamed of the battle ending as a victory for the Dragon Lord and a call to arms to the Death Eaters' and the various allies had believed were still out there, but Juventia contradicted his rantings, proving to all how her survival instincts overruled patriotic loyalty when such allegiance worked against her. Physically shoving past the Satrap to interject herself, Shail countered that they should not squander their ships just to mount a show force, noting the military advantage their enemies had at the time. Because of the time she had spent in the Imperial, then Bordurian, militaries, Juventia Shail was woman that was generally looked to by her fellow councillors for strategic battle insight and on such subjects, her opinion largely swaying the major vote. The General herself prescribing to a similar view of the situation as Tvezda and dismissed the show of raw power Polydamna wanted to make with the Future Iron Guard Council as being a battle that the Z.Z.R.K. sought only fight if they had no other option, as their very survival hinged on it. In addition to flatly pointed out the risk of losing the Council's command ships, should they commit to her opponent's motion, Shail defended her stance when Varban Polydamna verbally attacked her for cowardice and called the ex-governor out for his hypocrisy, mentioning in public his past losses and told him with an icy shrug that even though her suggestion of retreat might be interpreted as cowardice, his own choice to abandon his post and the people that had loyally defended it in his name made him just as spineless. Admiral Bella Tvezda then intervened and reminded the delegates that the purpose of their meeting was to discuss the future of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät, rather than squabble over matters of differing ideology, and enforced her unstated control of the Council then, informing Shail and the other Death Eaters that while they continued the purpose of their meeting, preparations would be made for them to reconvene at a new destination plotted out by Tvezda's aide, Adea Iendel, although the Grand Admiral internally wondered to herself if leaving Juventia Shail and Varban Polydamna to their own devices and seeing whoever survived might be a far simpler solution to their constant clashes.
Exodus to the north[]
- "How do you intend to make that escape? We have no ships of our own here. We are boxed into this palace by a population that had been long abused by the satrapy—"
- —Juventia Shale to Varban Polydamna, regarding how the Future Iron Guard Council was to escape Muyrra.
It soon came to the Imperials attention, however, that their allies among the Uplua leadership had found themselves with a brewing uprising from the civilians of Muyrra, who had been spurred to action thanks to the prodding of the United Hero and Dragon Rider Yellow Amarillo del Bosque Verde and her motley rebel stand, which interrupted the debate on which from the Future Iron Guard Council should take command, if they agreed to elect a leader from among their ranks. The suggestion that all the delegates, included Juventia Shail, seemed receptive to when it was first put on the table was one where they use edited video relays and propaganda to spread the word amidst their sympathizers that the Dragon Lord had returned to full power and resumed controlled of his Death Eaters, thus spurring the many that still admired their master and his goals to assemble behind groups like the F.I.G.C. The reception to this idea surprised Bella Tvezda, who Adea Iendal then privately alerted to the mobs growing outside Satrap Iraj Bagherzadeh's palace, which the Grand Admiral conveyed to the others, including Shail, who then watched from her seat at the dining table they had previously breakfasted around as her confederates engaged in shouted argument. When Varban Polydamna demanded an assessment of how large the Z.Z.R.K.'s local force was when compared to the commoner populace, Juventia Shail dryly assessed that their own troops, which numbered precisely one hundred and twenty, were up against a city with a population of about a million. Shail's true exasperation was shown soon after when Bella Tvezda and Polydamna argued about the former's decision to keep the security purposeful small in order to deflect suspicion. When Polydamna again demanded that the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät's remnants currently assembled show their strength in a full-on attack, the General rose from her seat to make a rare gesture of physical chagrin, tossing her hands into the air as she questioned how they, with their transport shuttles destroyed by Yellow and the dragoness Fireworm, were meant to make the escape Varban was speaking of, especially now that they were facing revolution by a population she freely acknowledged had genuine reasons to rise up against the abuse of the Satrapy, invoking an angry retort by Satrap Bagherzadeh, followed swiftly by a call for order from Bella Tvezda, who refused to recall the fleet and invoked her authority as the highest-ranking individual in the Council to assume full control. While Varban Polydamna again defied Tvezda's every suggestion that did not support his patriotic call-to-arms, Shail supported their de facto leader's reluctance to recall the Seawreckers now under their control, noting that the United Alliance of Magical Races — which she refused to refer to as simply 'the Rebellion', acknowledging the government's authenticity — would be hesitant to risk sparking Uplua's ire with a headlong charge. The general told Varban, who she referred to by his first name, that they of the Z.Z.R.K. should not play the reckless game while in their current condition, but before Polydamna could again verbally slander her, their fight was broken up by Bella Tvezda, who Juventia Shail watched forcefully commandeer Arman Parastui's pleasure yacht, the Diamond Swan for the usage of the Future Iron Guard Council, cowing its owner into recalling it under pain of immediate death, an act that impressed even Varban Polydamna.
Shail and her fellow Death Eaters therefore prepared to board the Swan while a force of volunteers pulled from their troops remained behind to ensure their leaders had the time to make their retreat, a fact secretly lamented on by the former Imperial Army's general, who considered the Imperial lives that would be lost a 'wicked waste'. All throughout their escape, however, Juventia Shail appeared to have remained adamant in her pessimistic approach to the situation, her constant noting that the best course of action would be to surrender being noted by Bella Tvezda, who privately credited her as being a 'doomsayer', feeling that neither Shail, nor any of the wizards she had gathered for the emergency summit in the hopes of restoring order to the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät had shown the spine that was needed. Tvezda even thought to herself that her own assistant, Adea Iendel, had shown greater courage in her failed attempt to prevent Yendor from escaping than any of the other Council members. Nonetheless, Shail's ability to predict how the United Alliance would act was called upon by Tvezda while she considered whether to call in the three Imperial-class Seawreckers that were under the separate command of her, Polydamna and Shail herself back for defense purposes. To fully determine if such a ploy was necessary, Bella Tvezda asked for Juventia's prediction on the timeframe they had left before the United Alliance's arrival, which Shail, furrowing her brow in concentration, admitted was a tough question to answer. She did, however, admit that Uplua would certainly find itself host to some force from the United Alliance soon, speculating the fleet would be large and in the area between one and three hours, depending on the level of caution being employed. General Shail objected to Tvezda's answered decision to call the Vigilance, Ascent and Vanquish back to Muyrra, unsure if the best move they could made was to endanger three major ships of their fleet in the ensuing battle, although the Grand Admiral dismissed the protest.
Having boarded the Diamond Swan with the rest of what was meant to be the Future Iron Guard Council before the yacht set a course that would take it swiftly to the Vigilance, leaving behind them Muyrra and the snivelling, weeping form of Iraj Bagherzadeh, who's pleas for the Death Eaters to take him with them Juventia Shail had watched Grand Admiral Bella Tvezda deny, the flight back to the command ships coincided with an naval attack carried out on the archipelago of Uplua by the United Alliance of Magical Races with assistance from the Syldavian Army, but the time bought by those that had willingly remained behind allowed for the Diamond Swan and its passengers, including Juventia Shail, to escape to the Vigilance, which swiftly moved to retreat with its companions to safe waters. Disembarking from the yacht to join Bella Tvezda where she stood at the Seawrecker's command bridge, which she had temporarily switched control of Cometfire and the Super Seawrecker's fleet over to, Shail, the general's hands clasped behind her in a picture of perfect military control, then watched as the Grand Admiral, now in contact with the entire assembled fleet, broadcasted orders to the Z.Z.R.K. vessels to set a course to escape through the portal lanes. Even upon learning that her new superior intended for Contrecoeur Valley, an isolated region in the far north edges of the Kingdom, to be their location, Shail made no argument and watched as the order was made and the regathered forces of the holdouts escape from the United Alliance.
Along with the other original leaders of the Contrecoeur Valley Z.Z.R.K. remnant, Juventia Shail was a member of the Umbra Council before her authority was usurped by Dean McAbin.
Their escape made untraceable, Juventia Shail and her peers would then begin the process of building and establishing a significant remnant of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät within their secluded new surroundings at Contrecoeur, gathering and merging their own factions of the fallen Z.Z.R.K. together into a single movement, but also establishing the contacts between themselves and the Death Eaters that remained undetected, as well as with a gang of Z.Z.R.K. operatives that had been exposed in the organization's fall at the Jalkarn Shallows, but escaped and fled, like the Future Iron Guard Council, to the far north. The first generation of leaders to this remnant being Juventia Shail and her fellow members of the Future Iron Guard Council, the former general would thus oversee the activities that allowed for their remnant to gain the crucial early footholds and evolve into a greater incarnation of itself, one which took advantage of there being no real contact between Contrecoeur and the royal capital at Klow to act with general unrestraint, banking on the monarchy's inability to maintain contact with the area to build their own power. In addition to their local roots, the remnant that Juventia and her fellow council member controlled were also to eventually become affiliated of certain other individuals, including Dean McAbin, a mentally-unstable banker that joined the Z.Z.R.K. on a passing fancy, rather than any genuine loyalty to the Dragon Lord, but which Shail and the other leaders allowed to join them due to the connections and influence that came with his allegiance. Along with her fellow leaders of the Contrecoeur Valley Z.Z.R.K. remnant, who had expanded their numbers in the months after the original exodus from Uplua, Juventia Shail would represent her remnant on the Umbra Council, a shadowy confederacy of remnant factions formed to coordinate their individual efforts in a larger effort to restore the Death Eaters to power in Syldavia, which would ultimately become the governing body to the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät that the Future Iron Guard Council had failed to be. An old veteran of the Contrecoeur-based faction that had previously served its predecessor organization, Juventia Shail was throughout of by others in both the remnant and the Umbra Council as a potential candidate for the seat of supreme leader of the Contrecoeur Valley-based Z.Z.R.K. forces, but in a twist of fate that took her and the other leaders by surprise, Dean McAbin took power over the remnant, parts of which he proceeded to remold into the Maple Leaf Gang while the majority of the old leadership was either side-lined, co-opted or killed.
Legacy[]
Several people lamented that Juventia Shail and her talents could not be put in service to the growing Ice Talons League (see symbol above).
The absence of Juventia Shail when war between the Death Eaters and the United Alliance recommenced was seen as a great tragedy by some, including Grand General Esteban Flores and Forsworn member, General Slithraa, who lamented on the fact that the elderly war tactician's talents could not be applied to assisting the Imperial Borderlands Security Council as it sought to hunt down and eliminate chapters of Catra D'Memirel's Unknown Regions Freedom Fighter movement, while Flores regretted that Shail and her naval counterpart Bella Tvezda could not serve within the emergent successor of their organization, the League of the Ice Talons, which had arisen from the holdout remnants of the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät. Although the Maple Leaf Gang had been brought low before the true heir to the Z.Z.R.K. could emerge, the elements of its organisation that had remained faithful to their true agenda — the one that General Juventia Shail had established — collaborated to support the military junta as it began to collect its strength.