The Dissolution Of The First Confederation

Those Who Cause Divisions, In Order To Injure Other People, Are In Fact Preparing Pitfalls For Their Own Ruin

For 103 years, the existence of the Great Reynard Nation had kept the Reynards in a state of peace and relative prosperity. However, all the while, insidious forces were at work within Reynard society.
The traditional social structure of the Reynards was that of the Band: a kinship group united by blood ties of varying closeness that held loyalty to one another, would protect the lands of one another, and elected a leader - called the Morubixaba - from their ranks to ensure that disputes between kin were mediated and that the interests of a Band were represented within the Band Confederacy they were part of. A Band Confederacy is a union of many individual Bands, uniting militaries and economies within itself, but still leaving most proper governance to the small Bands within a Confederacy. This system, though quite undeveloped, worked and the people were happy for it: but Trinitist missionaries brought more than a new faith.
When the Morubixaba first learned of the feudal system on which the Empire Of Great Mountains functioned, they showed little interest in it. After all, the ways of the Dwarves should be kept to the Dwarves and the ways of the Reynards should be kept to the Reynards. But as the Reynards formed themselves into the first ever Great Reynard Nation and fully embraced Trinitism after years of war, things began to change. Some Morubixaba, who returned home from these conflicts as great heroes, began to establish themselves as more than just the guides of a Band but rather the leader of a Band. By gathering warriors loyal to them, these ambitious men and women would build a base of support that they could build on further: efforts were made across the Range to group Bands into tracts of land as opposed to having them spread out as they were before, pacts were made with the Cult to convince the peasantry of the infallibility of their leaders, and Morubixaba began to keep tax money for their personal use.
These changes were seen as fine by the Reynards and even useful. If a Band was grouped together, that would make defense and administration easier, not to mention that it would reinforce the bonds between Band members. Furthermore, with the help of the Cult, the Reynards grew to believe in the power of a noble line. Even prior to these changes, it was not uncommon for the son or daughter of the previous Morubixaba to be elected if the prior Morubixaba did a good job, for a strong father made for a strong son. But over time, it practically became the norm that after the term of a Morubixaba was over, a family member of theirs be elected. Then, over more time, elections were never even called at all, with the Reynards more or less all agreeing to stop having them. After all, since noble families had established themselves and it was the new tradition that a member of these families be elected, why have the elections at all? After all, the Clerics said that the rulers knew best and that it was not godly to concern one's self with the governance of others when there is work to be done.
Work, however, also changed. For the purposes of "administration" and the "advancement of the realm", Morubixaba would declare land reform: in return for being allowed to work their own land, a Reynard must pay their taxes and will do any work their Morubixaba commands of them. This was tolerated because it was seemingly not much different from the system that was before: except that now, if you violated or "violated" the terms of the contract with your liege lord, the land your family had owned for generations would be taken from your hands and given to another.
Though this new system spread throughout the Great Reynard Nation gradually and without much resistance, there were a few who would not tolerate this. The Reynards of the Far North hardly tolerated the Trinitist conversions, so it should come as no surprise that they held true to the old ideas. Over time, as the winds of change howled across the land, individual families and entire Bands would move up North, seeking to keep the Reynard social traditions alive up there, unwilling to live as peasants held within the glove of a noble. As the population of the Northern Band Confederacies swelled, they had a meeting of their own - the Congress of Yure - and declared their secession from the Great Reynard Nation, a totally legal action. They had no desire to be held in union with Bands that had betrayed the core beliefs of Reynard society, and so it was that they sought to strike it out on their own.
Perhaps to the surprise of the Northerners, the other Band Confederacies had no problem with this at all. In fact, they took it and ran. The Ñemoñe'ẽ Akãngora across the country had for some time now looked for a good way to end the Great Reynard Nation and bring back the days of division in which they could do whatever they pleased without consequence: their personal disputes no longer forced into arbitration by the entire Assembly and free reign to put rival Bands to the sword. In a trickle, and then a flood, the various Band Confederacies that made up the Great Reynard Nation declared their own secession, the First Confederation being a thing of the past before the year was over, a vision from a much bloodier past in its place.

263 E.D.