Following an immensely bad winter, which saw the failure of almost all the locally grown crops and the cutting off of the Worfal Tundra from the rest of the continent by road, the people of the Tundra request emergency aid from the Satrap.
Following an immensely bad winter, which saw the failure of almost all the locally grown crops and the cutting off of the Worfal Tundra from the rest of the continent by road, the people of the Tundra request emergency aid from the Satrap.
With neither aid, nor an acknowledgement of their troubles forthcoming from the Satrap of Norgantho, rioting erupts all across the towns, villages and mining communities fo the Worfal Tundra, with many imperial buildings and personnel damaged. In response the Regional Administrator deploys the provincial troops under their command to forcibly suppress the unrest.
Seeking to bring the unrest to an end, the Regional Administrator for the Worfal Tundra ordered the troops under his command to forcibly break up a strike that had begun at Lemnar Mine, a rich iron mine in the west of the territory. Finding that the miners were resistant to being disbursed, the Provincial Troops took the opportunity to release their frustrations and reacted with excessive force. Hundreds of miners were killed, and hundreds other wounded.
As news of the massacre at Lemnar Mine spread across the region of the Worfal Tundra, the local populace, either enraged or fearful that they too might be attacked by Provincial Troops, took up arms and began to attack anything or anyone that represented the Provincial or the Imperial government.
Unable to subdue the rioters and rebels, all remaining Provincial Troops in the Worfal Tundra retreat to the administrative capital Hraman to try and establish a defensive position from which they can be relieved or rescued by reinforcements requested from Norgantho’s Provincial Government.
Buoyed up by the retreat of the Provincial Troops, the rebels of the Worfal Tundra press home their rebellion and besiege the administrative capital, Hraman. Within days the town was cut off from the outside world and the two forces became locked in a bitter fight for every street and houses.
After months of bitter fighting, the loss of most of the Provincial Troops under their command and the failure of any reinforcements to appear from the south, the Provincial Administrator surrenders the town of Hraman to the rebels. All Provincial and Imperial buildings are sacked by the victorious forces and all known Imperial Servants and Provincial bureaucrats, including the Provincial Administrator are executed.
Following the surrender and sack of Hraman, the founding of the independent nation of Nova Norgantho was declared, and the rebels formally claimed control over the area of the Worfal Tundra.
More than two years after the rebellion in the Worfal Tundra and the declaration of Nova Norgantho’s independence, the Satrap of Norgantho Province, seeing that the burgeoning nation wasn’t going to tear itself apart of its own accord, finally decides to launch an assault. His army entered the territory of Nova Norgantho by the most direct route, meaning a crippling, attritional march through the Destra Wetlands. The Provincial troops that survived only made it two days march into the Rebel Nation before they were ambushed near the village of Valtan and slaughtered, their weapons and armour going to swell the supplied of Nova Norgantho.
After years spent infiltrating Nova Norgantho, agents from the Imperial Inquisition launched an assault from within the Councillors’ compound in Hraman to try and kill every member of the People’s Council for that year, and thereby break the spirit of the Rebel Nation. Despite their best efforts, many of the councillors survived and the majority of the agents were killed attempting to flee the town.
To celebrate reaching 50 years of independence from the Empire of Turelion, a nationwide celebration is held, to which a number of the Rebel Nation’s key allies, including representatives of Kelrik Pirates, are invited.
Following his coronation, Emperor Belliotrix IV officially declares war on Nova Norgantho, a move that both legitimises the Rebel Nation’s claim to be independent, but also notes a seed change in the Empire’s opinion of them and a shift towards treating them a true problem.
Emperor Belliotrix's solution to the Nova Norgantho problem is launched by the beginning of a network of walls and forts across the northern edge of the Destra Wetlands, the Yalthar Jungle and the western edge of the Grunwald Forest, to seal off the area of the Worfal Tundra from the rest of Hunar Continent.
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