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Draft #3

It is a system thought of as despicable. It is seen amidst the wrath of the cruelest tyrants and the most heartless of dictators. It is the beginning of the end for the leader who ever tries to force love. You can't force unseen ropes around seen people. The stories involving the brick building are innumerable. Every family that has lasted through the trials of living in the Water Tribe has memories of the building that had influence enough to spur a rebellion. Not always was this building so notorious, though. It is known that the building began as a very sacred place--a passage for boys into adulthood, a marker of a major milestone in these boys' lives. Inscribed on the stone walls inside is the layout for the tribe's initiation ceremony that would take place for each boy following their ninth birthday. We can assume that upon entrance into the building, the boy accepts some sort of challenge. It is believed that each boy's challenges and trials were different, but we know all was designed to exploit and identify faults and weaknesses in the child. Once the child has undergone this, they all receive a kind of aptitude test that was very important to their social class in the future. When the boy left that building, they knew their occupation, ambitions, social class, and starting military rank (once of age). This all had no regard for personal preference or interest, but citizens thought little of this. Who was going to challenge custom? Free men walked blind. This practice seemed to fade in and out of existence for centuries, with many variations in its style but all with the same intention. People were numb to the oppression. It was under the most deceiving of all rulers that the Realization finally took place. It took only one small adjustment in the standard initiation process to make it happen, but the uproar was incredibly momentous. The oligarchical government had been taking steps to, in effect, purify the human race; they said that the modern day man was half of what he used to be. The true reason was much less practical: for centuries, the leaders had had a blood line of succession completely pure of the faults identified in the brick building, and the family line was dying. The family had to either sacrifice their "pure" blood status, or attempt to create another group of individuals fit to marry into the blood line. Knowing that little time was left for the salvation of their breed, the leaders made the abrupt decision to reinstate the use of the brick building in a time when it had not been used for ages. This decision was met with mixed feelings. Many of those not yet adults felt their lives had been made easier, and that they would have their path laid before them in a neat fashion. Never had such a large misconception developed. Immediately young people were brought in for their initiations, not only from the Water Tribe, but throughout the national region. The process had been completely mangled by these self-described "Grandeur Elite Leaders". Children would experience the worldly boundaries of pain and suffering to try and qualify as a candidate for the leaders. Only one thing was chosen for the girls and boys who endured this--his or her spouse. This was the catalyst for the Realization, nothing else. The choice of a life partner was a freedom clung on to by everyone in the lower classes that already had so little liberty. Rebellions started from the bottom of the social structure and ascended into a full scale coup d'état. Many historians even cite this flash point as an initial sign of major political divides that led to explosive actions that made up The Event. =<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: #aaaaaa; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;"> =