The precise spark of the Bantos Uprising is unknown.

What survives is myth: that a single dog soldier—veteran of the failed rebellions—rallied entire slave settlements, marched them back to the capital, burned Jantara City to its foundations, beheaded its rulers, and shattered the old gold and ruby crowns.

Whether this figure existed as described is irrelevant. The truth is larger: Bantos was not founded by negotiation, but by annihilation of a system that had exhausted every claim to legitimacy.

Jantara became a word the jackals hated. The Jackalands became a place to quietly die.

And Bantos became something new—not innocent, not gentle, but free.

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