Mugen started / founded Underlords.
FOUNDERS
Mugs starts it. four friends come with her. consequences follow.
MUGEN STARTED UNDERLORDS
The origin is not five strangers jointly filing incorporation papers. Mugen started the club. The founding circle is five because four people came with her: Ritha, WolfPhenix, Suzimasu, and HyaLuna.
BEFORE UL: ALTISSA
They met in Dragon Raja first, then ended up together in **Altissa**. When Mugen left to start Underlords, those four came with her. UL begins as a new club built out of an already-existing little in-game friendship cluster.
THE DISTINCTION
**Mugen founded UL. Five people make up the founding circle.** Both are true. The other four are founders because they came with her at the beginning; that does not mean all five performed the same act when the new club was created.
SOURCE NOTES 5
On June 24, 2021, Mugen posted `Finally found the date UL was created. 18 Mar 2020. Lvl 1, 16 Members hell ye ๐ค` after checking old pictures; the recovered Club Only synthesis records that the message was pinned.
This is retrospective recovery of the creation date from Mugen's old pictures, not a contemporaneous March 18 creation log. `Lvl 1, 16 Members` is Mugen's pictured/reported state, not proof of sixteen founders or an independently audited launch roster.
March 18, 2020 is the currently archive-confirmed Underlords creation date, based on Mugen's June 24, 2021 recovery from old pictures.
If stronger primary evidence later supersedes the recovered old-picture date, History should move with the receipt.
Ritha, WolfPhenix, Suzimasu, and HyaLuna came with Mugen from Altissa and, together with Mugen, form the five-person Underlords founding circle.
The five first met through Dragon Raja and then joined the same prior club, Altissa, before Underlords was created.