Following up on his plan on bringing down Legaia by targeting its citizens, Loki continued doing just that. After Fourside, Granite Pass and Port Letosh were hit, the mines and docks of the respective places also doing destroyed in an effort to cripple Legaia. These tactics were met with outrage in Xiphatia. Loki responded to this outrage by mind controling whatever prominent figure voiced said outrage, and have the famalies of other threatened until they complied. After bringing the body count up to unheard of levels, Loki, via Amalia, gave Legaia an ultimatum--Complete, unconditional surrender, or the utter anihilation of Legaia cities on the mainland. Having no choice but to accept, the Prime Minister of Legaia, Sebastion Buche, met with Amalia behind closed doors to sign the new treaty, which heavily favoured Xiphatia. Loki was, of course, present during this, masquerading as a mediator. During the signing of the treaty, Sebastion too was mind controled.
After meeting with both Amalia and Sebastion, Loki learned of two artifacts that the leaders of both nations kept in secret. According to some ancient legends by bringing both together, that person would be granted ultimate power. Something that Loki couldn't pass up.
Upon bringing both a small blue, triangular crystal from Xiphatia, and a necklace made of platinum. When brought together, these seemingly every objects revealed greater secrets. The now complete necklace began to hum, and soon, opened a portal to places unknown.
By entering, Loki found himself far above Alnilam, which strangely looked far larger than he suspected. In fact, there were several other continents, each seemingly divided by storms, however.
Further still he would find a tall white haired man who introduced himself as Orion. Asking for the man's story, hoping to take a chance to use his staff to mind control the man, Loki learned that Orion was Anilam's near-omniscient overseer, abandoned by his race after he tried to teach the inferior races of the planet how to use magic and technology. They left him stranded as punishment. However, he found a source of entertainment. That by giving the people of the world opposing magics and technologies, he could encourage conflict between the people. And that helped him to pass the time, watching the conflicts erupt.
Sensing an opportunity, Loki tried to touch Orion's chest only to discover that the giant was protected by an invisible armor. Indeed, Loki's efforts had long amused Orion, and he felt that there was an opportunity to be taken advantage of. Orion promised to free Loki of his shackles and grant him dominion over as many worlds as he could imagine. Together they would conquer the galaxy and Orion would find and get revenge against his former people.
This was hardly a chance Loki could pass up, even if he was rather forced into it. And together the two would use their combined might and forces to subjugate several worlds. Starting with Anilam itself.
Legaia, Xiphatia, and slowly but surely, the rest of the world was united under one banner, forming the Kingdon of Ragnarök. The induviduality of the nations were erased, various types of currency were replaced with a single one, crests were taken down and replaced with the crest of Ragnarök, nations were renamed, national anthems were banned, as were hollidays meant to celebrate a nation's tradition. The pasts of the various nations were removed fom history books and other archives. Any mention of a nation's individuality became punnishable by five years inprisonment. Even the year was reset.
Other nations of course resisted the Ragnarökian invasion, but by utilising the same dirty tactics he used on Legaia, which now included releasing Xenomorphs and sending out Orion's magic-powered machines, few could stand up to the kingdom for more then a few weeks. The heads of the conquered nations kept their positions, but their power was severely limited, being only alowed to deal with the duties Loki himself didn't want to bother with.
With the war over, Amalia made it known that her husband, son and son and daughter-n-law had died "warding off terrorists that had plagued the nation".
True to his word, Loki formed the Order of the Sorcerers of the Court, which was the highest position that any mage could achieve. They would have almost absolute freedom, being answerable only to Loki himself. Rita was made the head of this order.
Making himself above the rest literally as well as figuratively, Loki had the citizens of Solaris moved out of the city, and back into Fourside. The city was flattened, and instead would hold Loki's palace, which was planned to be such a size that it put the palace of Shaintaio to shame. Estates for the few member of the Sorcerers of the Court were also build on the floating platform.
Seeing no more need for them, Loki had the military bases on the Wild Lands closed and demolished. During this time, he came to learn about the slavers of Devil's Pit. Seeing use for them, Loki had a mega prison complex built on the Wild Lands, putting the slavers in charge of it.
Thinking their exclusion from just about everything to be a gross waste of manpower, Loki decreed that beastkin be given the same oppertunities as everyone else, thus taking the first step towards seeing beastkin treated as people, rather then second-rate citizens at best. Even if he didn't care to make verbal discrimination punishable.
This allowed Paprika and her family a much more open existence. While this did hurt their business at first, in time they actually managaed to have a much more successful business and even drew the attention of some since their daughter, Mint, was a rarity. Felina herself no longer had to fear any harm befalling her daughter and eventually even reunited with her other dauhghter, Rosetta, who had escaped to the Wild Lands long ago. Rosetta even proved a subject of interest as she actually possed the ability to use Light Blood Line magic, which many in the Sorcerers of the Court were interested in.
The mines of Granite Pass were quickly made operational again, it taking only a little more then a month to clear out the shaft. Getting Rockbyrd, however, was deemed a lost cause. Instead, a new mining site was established in the north of the mountains.
Ino eventually awakened from her coma, but having been smashed in the head by a mechanical fist, folled by being hit with a stone tile, had sustained major brain damage, leaving her paralyzed and unable to talk, thus her desire to die, rather then live on in the pitiable state she was in was known to none but her.
While in theory the world was unified, relationship were far from smooth, especially with the nations that were once Legaia and Xiphatia. Former Xiphatia was still sour over the destruction of Nightshire, and partial "unwarrented attack" on Everwood, and former Legaia was scornful of the tactics Loki used to force them to surrender. Every so often, there would be threat of a civil war, but Orion always spotted this, where upon Loki would the instigators either arrested to the newly built mega prison, or simply killed. Very much the same would be the case then any attempts to fight Loki's tyanny.
There were times when former Xiphatia and Legaia worked as one, but these were only occasions were Loki a team be formed to further increase Ragnarök's already formidable military. Such projects included getting scholars from former Xiphatia to brainstorm with Soto on how to improve his super soldier, first adding Xiphatian DNA into the mix, creating GRUNTS and ANTS that can utilise magic, and going as far as capturing dragons to add their DNA. The also brainstormed with weapon manufacturers from former Legaia in attempts to improve on Orion's magical machines. Weapon engineers from former Legaia were also tasked with working on improving golems, creating a fusion of golem and droid. The most grand of the projects was to build an amplifier for Loki's scepter, making its influence spread across the globe. This was proved to be possible, as a working prototype was made, but this had only a range of two meters, and already was eating immense amount of power. It would be generations before the technology to create a feasibly power a world-wide amplifier.
The various research done was costly, and to continue funding it, Loki increased the tax on just about everything by ten percent.
Loki had several plans in mind to get Orion out of the picture, but he didn't see fit to act out any of them, as the aliance was nothing but beneficial for him.
While Ragnarök was still working on conquering the rest of Anilam, Loki eventually left for Earth alongside a collection of Orion's magical machine to finally honour his deal with the Chitauri and retrieve the Tessaract. The resistance he found included a paticularly tenacious group known as the Avengers, but with the aid of those Loki placed under his control, the magical machines, and later the Chitauri themselves, would soon fall. Once the resistance was dealt with, Loki handed the Tessaract over to the lord of the Chitauri, this act dooming a great number of dimensions. For his part in the retrieval of the Tessaract, the headaches that had been paining Loki for weeks stopped, and the scepter was modified to be able to create a portal to whereever Loki wished. Now with no ties to the Chitauri, Loki returned to Anilam to oversee his kingdom.
Orion himself benefited from the alliance as well. He soon began to build his own fleet of ships modified from the files he had stolen from the Predator ship, using workers from the world below. He added to his own forces the use of lightsabers and, having long observed those who he had brought to the planet, portals and modified T-1000 machines that were enhanced by magic to be even more powerful were added to his arsenal. A few people from the various continents of the world were allowed to join his own personal guard and forces.
Savranth was one such person. Though, he agreed to work for Orion under the condition that his parents would be allowed to live together in peace. This was allowed and while, the newly reunited couple did have a rocky start (due to the assumed crimes of each nation) they soon found some peace together.
In time, he began to seek out his former race and hunt them across all the galaxy. Wherever he found them, he would raze the world, sometimes even catching other races in the crossfire. At times, he would enslave those he found or even send them to serve Loki. Getting revenge on those who had betrayed him consumed his every waking moment, but he always kept tabs on Loki. He even considered plans to destroy his ally. Though, he never acted on it as Alnilam served as a good base of operations for his fleet.
However, he did entertain the idea of warring with Loki after finding all his former people, from time to time. He always considered it to be something that could prove entertaining...
