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The History of Cambrecia

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Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade

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Created page with "<includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle |startyear= 1026 |startyearcirca= |endyear= 1128 |endyearcirca= |continent= Duria |previous_article= Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars |main_article=The History of Cambrecia }}</noinclude>To later Cambrecian chroniclers, the century of fighting that followed became known as the Neptaran Crusade: a holy war tha..."

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}}</noinclude>To later Cambrecian chroniclers, the century of fighting that followed became known as the [[Neptaran Crusade]]: a holy war that [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] launched against the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] democracy, that a second Pontifex and a second Legate, both brothers, fought all over again two generations later, and that finally guttered out only when a third Pontifex judged the whole enterprise not worth finishing.

Severinus's five-year ultimatum expired in {{ICYear|281}} with Neptaris exactly as democratic as it had ever been, and the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the city from itself. The Crusade was slower to gather than he had hoped, priests and lay Zelosites trickling into [[Septarium]] through the following year before he judged himself ready, and when he finally marched south he brought an army twice the size of anything Neptaris could field. It did not matter. Severinus was a Pontifex, not a general, and at the [[Battle of Perrenoth Fields]] his numbers meant nothing against a Neptaran army under the more experienced [[Lewt Morgar|Marshal Lewt Morgar]] that simply outfought him. The Pontifex escaped the field with what remained of his staff and spent the next decade bleeding Neptaris slowly, through Crusader raiding bands that harried the Territories and burned what they could not hold, rather than risking his own person in the field again.

The war Cambrecia actually remembers begins in {{ICYear|296}}, when Marshall Morgar's men found and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan Gweri|King Garulan]] called it a village under his own protection and declared war on Neptaris for breach of the [[Treaty of Neptaris]]. Whether it had ever been a village at all is a question Cambrecian chroniclers have never much wanted to ask out loud, since the Church's own doctrine held that legitimate rule justifies itself through evidence rather than assertion, and Garulan's casus belli was never given much of either. It was, at least, a popular war. By {{ICYear|300}}, he and the aging Pontifex Severinus had raised an army and marched into the Territories together, the King leading and the Pontifex accompanying him in body if not in command, and for three grinding years they inched toward Neptaris through guerrilla resistance and a summer of miserable weather. They were within sight of the city's walls in {{ICYear|303}} when Severinus's heart finally gave out. A quarter of the army were crusaders loyal to the Pontifex personally and they departed for Septarium with his body. Garulan, unwilling to spend the rest of the army on a failed siege, retreated with them.

Garulan spent what remained of his reign building [[Fort Speculium]], a fortress raised on the Neptaran border massive enough to anchor a war for a generation. Garulan died in {{ICYear|310}} with the walls nearly finished, and his son [[Medeno III Gweri|Medeno III]], a far less martial man than his father, inherited both the throne and the fortress. He was ready to use it by {{ICYear|313}}, only to watch the Legion he was counting on sail home to [[Zeth]] without him: Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] had died heirless, and [[the First Succession War]] had begun without any regard for what it cost Cambrecia. The Legion was recalled to secure the Empire at its very capital.

Medeno III spent the better part of a decade fighting alone and losing ground, until the Neptaran [[Angar Tivalos|Marshal Angar Tivalos]] put Fort Speculium itself under siege in {{ICYear|321}}. It held through a mild winter and subsequent spring, and by late summer of {{ICYear|322}}, just as Tivalos looked ready to finally crack it, the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] returned: the Succession War had resolved in [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]]'s favor, and his first act as Emperor was to send help. Tivalos was broken at the [[Battle of Mists]].

What followed was less a war than an occupation that never quite incorporated the subjugated into the Empire. The Legate, a careful officer named [[Aulus Ostorius]], judged his own losses too heavy to press on Neptaris and withdrew to Septarium and, Zetian bureaucracy being what it is, reinforcements did not reach him again for five years. When they finally arrived in {{ICYear|327}}, he settled into Fort Speculium as a base and spent over a decade grinding out marginal gains in the Territories that never added up to anything decisive. Tivalos, patient in a way Ostorius was not, simply went around him in {{ICYear|340}} and marched into Cambrecia proper, burning the undefended countryside between the fortress and Septarium while Ostorius dithered over whether it was even real. By {{ICYear|345}}, the damage was done: farmers across southern Cambrecia had had enough, and whole communities picked up and migrated north to the empty shore of the Sea of Swords, land that would eventually be settled properly as [[Enesia]] three centuries later. Medeno III in {{ICYear|344}}, still king of a stalemate, and his son took the throne as [[Corvos II Gweri|Corvos II]], reviving the founding name in a war that badly needed some of the first Corvos's luck.

For a while it looked like the war might simply exhaust itself. Ostorius's Legion, unable to feed itself from a countryside that had emptied out from under it, ended up farming its own abandoned fields to survive, and Tivalos went home to Neptaris a hero, dying in {{ICYear|353}} believing he had won for good. He had not; there had never been a treaty, only an absence of anyone willing to keep fighting. That changed in {{ICYear|360}}, when the [[Caurus of House Valerius|Emperor Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] appointed a new pair of brothers to break the deadlock: [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] as Pontifex, and [[Demetrios Paolus of House Zetar|Demetrious Paolus]] as Legate, both brothers of [[House Zetar]]. They arrived together, refortified Speculium by {{ICYear|363}}, and ran the kind of coordinated campaign Cambrecia had not seen in generations, capturing the Territories' trade centers to strangle Neptaran supply while methodically outmatching a complacent [[Doncan Mathros|Marshal Doncan Mathros]], who was routed at the [[Battle of Dry Fields]] in {{ICYear|367}} and stripped of his rank for it.

Neptaris answered with its own hard man, a smith named [[Prentor Perrenoth]] who imposed martial law and conscripted the city bodily to keep fighting. He put Speculium under [[Siege of Speculium|an eight-month siege]] in {{ICYear|368}} that failed to take the fortress but badly wounded the Legion holding it and when Petros and Demetrios finally struck back in {{ICYear|372}}, they went straight for Neptaris itself rather than fighting over the Territories again. Five months of siege breached the outer walls and killed Perrenoth in the fighting, and the city's defenders fell back to [[Castle Zepharos]] for what should have been the war's final act. It never happened. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. Word had reached them that the [[Semelius Secundis of House Furius|Emperor Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex of House Gabinius|Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] in {{ICYear|371}}, plunging Zeth into [[the Second Succession War]]. Petros and Demetrios abandoned the siege overnight to go defend [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus]]'s claim to the throne. Neptaris took the opening for exactly what it was and retook Fort Speculium while the Legion's back was turned. They pushed gains back into Cambrecian territory that had cost two Legates and thirty years to win in the first place.

By the time the Second Succession Wars were over in {{ICYear|376}}, Corvos II had been king for over thirty years of a war that had outlived two of his predecessors and consumed a piece of his own kingdom's population. The new Pontifex, a quieter man named [[Nicanor of Zelos|Nicanor]], had no appetite for reclaiming what the Zetar brothers had lost, and encouraged the aging King to end the war. Corvos II signed the [[Treaty of Speculium]] in {{ICYear|378}}, granting Neptaris the independence it had already effectively won and formally returning what little Cambrecia had actually managed to hold onto. A century after Severinus first called his Crusade, Cambrecia had spent an entire dynasty's patience, an army's worth of dead, and a piece of its own farmland to end up exactly where the Treaty of Neptaris had left things a hundred years before. Notably, Nicanor failed to formally issue a revocation of Pontifex Severinus' [[Denunciation of Democracy]]... he simply stopped enforcing it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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	}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear\|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd\|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear\|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.		}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear\|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd\|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear\|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The Second Cambrecian War

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	The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.		The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

	[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear\|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both ~~returned~~ to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar\|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear\|~~1127~~}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear\|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>		[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear\|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. The previous year, [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both hurried back to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar\|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear\|1126}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear\|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>

Third Age of Man Timeline

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	{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}		{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[~~Antigonus Gabinius~~]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar\|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] without heir.}}
	{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}		{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
	{{EventRow\|1071\|even\|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}		{{EventRow\|1071\|even\|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}

The Second Cambrecian War

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	[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear\|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear\|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.		[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear\|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear\|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.

	The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter ~~of 1030-1~~, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear\|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.		The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter that year, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear\|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.

	For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear\|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.		For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear\|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.
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	The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear\|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear\|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.		The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear\|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear\|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.

	Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear\|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear\|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The Emperor Androcles Leto had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.		Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear\|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear\|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar\|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.

	King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear\|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By ~~the fall of 1071~~, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear\|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro\|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.		King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear\|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By autumn, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear\|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro\|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.

	After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear\|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear\|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.		After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear\|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear\|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.
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	The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.		The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

	[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear\|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both returned to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar\|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear\|1127}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear\|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.		[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear\|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both returned to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar\|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear\|1127}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear\|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>
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	{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}		{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
			{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}

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	It did not last. In {{ICYear\|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius\|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden\|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear\|202}}.		It did not last. In {{ICYear\|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius\|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden\|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear\|202}}.

	The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. ~~The decades that followed are thin in~~ the ~~record~~, ~~but~~ the ~~broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power~~, ~~and by~~ the ~~middle~~ of the ~~third century~~ after the ~~conquest~~ the ~~old order had quietly inverted itself~~. ~~It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris~~'s own ~~treasury~~, ~~a bitter irony~~ for a ~~province that had once ruled~~ the ~~place by fiat~~.		The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. True to the arrangement, Medeno spent the office fighting the war he actually cared about, the low-grade native insurgency still smoldering in the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] long after the [[Foothill Accord]] had cut the dwarves out of it. For the better part of a decade he simply ignored Aurelian's protests that the coast deserved his attention instead. The Legion slipped from his hands only once, in {{ICYear\|219}}, when Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius\|Semelius]] of [[House Furius]] appointed his own brother, [[Tiberius Phocas of House Furius\|Tiberius Phocas]], to the post Medeno had held for seventeen years, but a Senate coup in Zeth swept Semelius aside within the year and the Legate's chair reverted to the Crown almost as an afterthought.

	By {{ICYear\|262}}, and again in {{ICYear\|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear\|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and ~~killed him~~. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear\|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear\|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>		Away from the coast, this was Cambrecia's longest stretch of uninterrupted internal peace since the conquest. Aurelian, who had shepherded two Cambrecian kings through the church's partnership with the crown, died of old age around {{ICYear\|215}} and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Leontius of Zelos\|Leontius]], an Aescalapean-trained scholar with no taste for politics who poured the church's resources into learning instead. Under Leontius, the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] gave the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]] its first major revision in a generation, and Septarium's reputation as a center of legal scholarship hardened into something concrete: the [[Auditors' College]], chartered in {{ICYear\|224}} to formally train the [[Order of Auditors]], drew students from as far as [[Koramia]]. Cambrecian wine, an investment in the countryside made by Ionnanes himself, became the province's quiet economic engine through these decades, carried down the [[King's Road]] that Medeno had built to move troops to the mountains and that merchants adopted just as happily. It's one of the era's sharper ironies that the tariffs Cambrecia later found itself paying into Neptaris's treasury fell, in no small part, on its own wine reaching Neptaran tables.

			Medeno II reigned for fifty-one years and died peacefully in {{ICYear\|235}}, remembered less for any battle than for simply never losing his throne to war, plague, or a rival's blade the way every king before him had. His son took the crown as [[Tarnos IV Gweri\|King Tarnos IV]], reviving a name that hadn't sat on a Cambrecian throne since [[House Dravos]] fell a century and a half earlier, a deliberate gesture tying the young Corvosid line to the memory of the one it had replaced. Leontius died a few years into Tarnos's reign and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Cassian of Zelos\|Cassian]], who inherited a treasury already feeling Neptaris's reversal of fortune and spent his tenure trying, and failing, to talk the Neptaran [[Supreme Assembly]] out of it.

			By {{ICYear\|262}}, and again in {{ICYear\|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear\|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and all hands were lost. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear\|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear\|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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	}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] ~~had worn the crown for only four years when~~ [[~~Neptaris~~]] ~~tore itself~~ out of the Empire's hands, and ~~for the next several years~~ [[~~Cambrecia~~]] ~~found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn~~'t ~~started.~~ [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]]~~, recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear\|173}}, retook~~ the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion ~~homeward~~ the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.		}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear\|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd\|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear\|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

	The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.		The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.

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	End of the [[First Age of Elvenkind]]; [[the Dagda]] returns to the [[Tuatha de Dannan]]. After a brief meeting with [[Nuada\|King Nuada]], the latter orders the Tuatha to retire to [[Otherworld]].		End of the [[First Age of Elvenkind]]; [[the Dagda]] returns to the [[Tuatha de Dannan]]. After a brief meeting with [[Nuada\|King Nuada]], the latter orders the Tuatha to retire to [[Otherworld]].
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	[[The Foundation of Neptaris]] along the wild shores of the [[Duria\|Durian continent]] by the explorer [[Zarakos of Taranio]].		* [[The Foundation of Neptaris]] along the wild shores of the [[Duria\|Durian continent]] by the explorer [[Zarakos of Taranio]].

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	* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.		* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the '''Pacification of Neptaris''' in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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	{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}		{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}
	{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}		{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}
			{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}

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	* [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].		* [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].
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			* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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	* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris.		* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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	}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear\|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of ~~Screaming~~\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.		}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear\|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

	The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.		The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.

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	Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.		Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

	Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city. Imperial troops flooded into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executed everyone in the city holding a title. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.		Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city. Imperial troops flooded into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executed everyone in the city holding a title. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died in what would become known as the [[Fortnight of Screams]].

	Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear\|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.		Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear\|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

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	}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear\|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.		}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri\|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear\|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screaming\|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

	The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.		The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear\|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos\|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth\|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear\|180}} still negotiating.

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	* ~~The Imperial Legate of [[Legion II Simmeria]],~~ [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] ~~arrives at~~ the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] in ~~command of both his legion and [[Legion III Cambrecia]].~~ The ~~siege~~ of Neptaris ~~lasts barely four weeks. Imperial troops flood into~~ the ~~city, raping~~ and ~~pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executes everyone in~~ the ~~city holding a title, including the legendary~~ [[~~Hadrag~~ of ~~House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag~~]] ~~of [[House Markos]]. Zemarchus orders his war-mages to set fire to everything they can as the Legions depart the city, sealing the gates as they depart~~.		* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris.

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	Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.		Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

	Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city and executed ~~its leaders~~. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.		Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city. Imperial troops flooded into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executed everyone in the city holding a title. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.

	Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear\|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.		Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear\|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

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* The Imperial Legate of [[Legion II Simmeria]], [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] arrives at the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] in command of both his legion and [[Legion III Cambrecia]]. The siege of Neptaris lasts barely four weeks. Imperial troops flood into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executes everyone in the city holding a title, including the legendary [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Zemarchus orders his war-mages to set fire to everything they can as the Legions depart the city, sealing the gates as they depart.

Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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	[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear\|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris\|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding\|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.		[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear\|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris\|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding\|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

	Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed ~~him~~ personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next ~~twenty years~~ he governed Cambrecia in ~~the~~ boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.		Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the Imperial edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed the King personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son. Ionnanes sent a message to the [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], who was campainging at the head of [[Legion II Simmeria]] in northern [[Ciritasnia]], and ordered him to Cambrecia to take command of both Legions and take Neptaris. The young Legate was not about to ignore his standing orders from the Emperor to attend to a mere priest, so continued his campaign north of the [[Divian Mountains]]. The Pontifex continued to plead, both to the Legate and the Emperor, but neither seemed inclined to assist. The Pontifex briefly tried to organize the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] himself, but as astute a politician and administrator he was, he was no military commander. Thus, for the next decade and a half he governed Cambrecia in a boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea. Meanwhile, in {{ICYear\|158}}, the Pontifex called upon an old family friend, the [[Publius Rufus of House Rutilius\|Praefectus Classis Publius Rufus]] of the Aescalapean minor [[House Rutilius]] to bring his fleet to the [[Maroshan Sea]] to harass the Neptaran armada, commanded by the city's first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris\|Grand Admiral]], [[Garen Taltosbane]]. Though Taltosbane himself evaded capture, over the next eight years, Rufus slowly wore down the Neptaran merchant and naval fleets, making trade by sea into the city all but impossible.

	By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>		By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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	The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.		The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

	Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.		Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

	Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.		Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear\|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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Created page with "<includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle |startyear= 920 |startyearcirca= |endyear= 1473 |endyearcirca= |continent= Duria |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Long Discontent |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars |main_article=The History of Cambrecia }}</noinclude>King Corvos had worn the crown for only four years when Neptaris tore itself out of the Empire's hands, an..."

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}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. The decades that followed are thin in the record, but the broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power, and by the middle of the third century after the conquest the old order had quietly inverted itself. It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris's own treasury, a bitter irony for a province that had once ruled the place by fiat.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and killed him. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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	}}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos\|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia\|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire\|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear\|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos\|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same [[Sarnicid Dynasty]] as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.		}}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos\|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia\|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire\|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear\|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos\|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same [[Sarnicid Dynasty]] as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.
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	Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.		Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.

	By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.		By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

	Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear\|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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	{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}		{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|~~odd~~\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}
			{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
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	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}
	{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}		{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}

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Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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	}}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos\|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia\|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire\|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear\|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos\|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same Sarnicid ~~dynasty~~ as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.		}}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos\|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia\|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire\|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear\|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos\|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same [[Sarnicid Dynasty]] as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.

	Andarion's reign is remembered for the [[Revolt of Duvarna]], when the descendants of the old Duvarna tribe, crushed by taxation and by a string of bad harvests, rose up along the middle Kambros River and briefly drove out every Imperial tax-collector between [[Septarium]] and the foothills. King Lucius answered with a severity that shocked even his own Imperial advisors: entire villages were burned, and the survivors resettled by force onto Imperial estates further south, a policy that broke the rebellion but left the region depopulated and bitter for a generation afterward. He died in {{ICYear\|115}}, reportedly of a wasting illness, though rumors in Septarium's taverns preferred to whisper of poison.		Andarion's reign is remembered for the [[Revolt of Duvarna]], when the descendants of the old Duvarna tribe, crushed by taxation and by a string of bad harvests, rose up along the middle Kambros River and briefly drove out every Imperial tax-collector between [[Septarium]] and the foothills. King Lucius answered with a severity that shocked even his own Imperial advisors: entire villages were burned, and the survivors resettled by force onto Imperial estates further south, a policy that broke the rebellion but left the region depopulated and bitter for a generation afterward. He died in {{ICYear\|115}}, reportedly of a wasting illness, though rumors in Septarium's taverns preferred to whisper of poison.
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	His successor, [[Gaius Marendic\|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear\|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris\|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato\|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae\|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear\|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.		His successor, [[Gaius Marendic\|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear\|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris\|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato\|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae\|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear\|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.

	[[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea\|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the son of a ~~minor priest of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]]~~ in a province that had spent four decades under the iron rule of [[House Gabinius]] before the Church of Zelos even expanded there, and he had grown up watching what that kind of rule cost long after the rebellions themselves were over. "Ionnanes" wasn't his birth name at all, but the regnal name he took upon his elevation to the Pontificate, a custom of the Zelos priesthood that few people outside its ranks paid much attention to at the time, but which, centuries later, the Potentates of Cambrecia would inherit without anyone quite remembering where it started. Emperor Metius the Elder chose him precisely because he wasn't a soldier: where Titus Nepos, Cyricus Isidorus, and every Cambrecian king from Quintus to Gaius had answered Cambrecian defiance with the sword and only sharpened it, Ionnanes proposed something no Legate had ever tried: offering the Cambrecians not a conqueror to submit to, but a god to belong to. The Pontificate of Zelos had stood in Zeth itself since the earliest days of the Republic, seated at the literal heart of the state Zelos embodied, and moving it across an entire ocean to a half-pacified frontier province was, by any measure, a considerable gamble. Neither Metius nor Ionnanes could have known it at the time, but in trading the safety of Zeth for the volatile soil of [[Zelosia City\|Septarium]], they planted the seed of something the Empire could not have predicted: a priesthood answerable, in theory, to the Emperor, but rooted now in Cambrecian ground, drawing Cambrecian converts, and building, cathedral stone by cathedral stone, a foundation of authority that would one day answer to no Emperor at all and yet maintain Imperial traditions long after the Empire had fallen.		[[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea\|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the fourth son of a wealthy vintner in a province that had spent four decades under the iron rule of [[House Gabinius]] before the Church of Zelos even expanded there, and he had grown up watching what that kind of rule cost long after the rebellions themselves were over. "Ionnanes" wasn't his birth name at all, but the regnal name he took upon his elevation to the Pontificate, a custom of the Zelos priesthood that few people outside its ranks paid much attention to at the time, but which, centuries later, the Potentates of Cambrecia would inherit without anyone quite remembering where it started. Emperor Metius the Elder chose him precisely because he wasn't a soldier: where Titus Nepos, Cyricus Isidorus, and every Cambrecian king from Quintus to Gaius had answered Cambrecian defiance with the sword and only sharpened it, Ionnanes proposed something no Legate had ever tried: offering the Cambrecians not a conqueror to submit to, but a god to belong to. The Pontificate of Zelos had stood in Zeth itself since the earliest days of the Republic, seated at the literal heart of the state Zelos embodied, and moving it across an entire ocean to a half-pacified frontier province was, by any measure, a considerable gamble. Neither Metius nor Ionnanes could have known it at the time, but in trading the safety of Zeth for the volatile soil of [[Zelosia City\|Septarium]], they planted the seed of something the Empire could not have predicted: a priesthood answerable, in theory, to the Emperor, but rooted now in Cambrecian ground, drawing Cambrecian converts, and building, cathedral stone by cathedral stone, a foundation of authority that would one day answer to no Emperor at all and yet maintain Imperial traditions long after the Empire had fallen.

			[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear\|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris\|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding\|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

			Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.

			By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.

	Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear\|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>		Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear\|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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	In the spring of {{NCYear\|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear\|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear\|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.		In the spring of {{NCYear\|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear\|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear\|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

	Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.		Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The History of Cambrecia

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Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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	His successor, [[Gaius Marendic\|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear\|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris\|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato\|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae\|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear\|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.		His successor, [[Gaius Marendic\|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear\|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris\|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato\|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae\|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear\|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.

	~~The Imperial response~~ was ~~heavy-handed at first~~, ~~but in {{ICYear\|149}}~~, the ~~Emperor~~ [[~~Metius the Elder~~]] ~~decided on~~ a ~~more surreptitious approach to quelling~~ the ~~Cambrecians. In his role as~~ [[~~Pontifex Maximus~~]] of the ~~Imperial pantheon~~, he ~~sent~~ the ~~[[Pontifex~~ of Zelos]], ~~god~~ of the ~~State~~, to ~~Septarium~~ to ~~build~~ a ~~great cathedral and begin~~ the ~~conversion~~ of the ~~populous~~ to ~~[[Zelos]]~~. ~~The Pontifex of~~ the time, [[~~Ionnanes II~~]], ~~was~~ a ~~persuasive man~~, and ~~was able~~ to ~~quickly convert most of~~ the ~~local leadership to his banner~~. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear\|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>		[[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea\|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the son of a minor priest of [[Zelos\|Zelos Goldenhand]] in a province that had spent four decades under the iron rule of [[House Gabinius]] before the Church of Zelos even expanded there, and he had grown up watching what that kind of rule cost long after the rebellions themselves were over. "Ionnanes" wasn't his birth name at all, but the regnal name he took upon his elevation to the Pontificate, a custom of the Zelos priesthood that few people outside its ranks paid much attention to at the time, but which, centuries later, the Potentates of Cambrecia would inherit without anyone quite remembering where it started. Emperor Metius the Elder chose him precisely because he wasn't a soldier: where Titus Nepos, Cyricus Isidorus, and every Cambrecian king from Quintus to Gaius had answered Cambrecian defiance with the sword and only sharpened it, Ionnanes proposed something no Legate had ever tried: offering the Cambrecians not a conqueror to submit to, but a god to belong to. The Pontificate of Zelos had stood in Zeth itself since the earliest days of the Republic, seated at the literal heart of the state Zelos embodied, and moving it across an entire ocean to a half-pacified frontier province was, by any measure, a considerable gamble. Neither Metius nor Ionnanes could have known it at the time, but in trading the safety of Zeth for the volatile soil of [[Zelosia City\|Septarium]], they planted the seed of something the Empire could not have predicted: a priesthood answerable, in theory, to the Emperor, but rooted now in Cambrecian ground, drawing Cambrecian converts, and building, cathedral stone by cathedral stone, a foundation of authority that would one day answer to no Emperor at all and yet maintain Imperial traditions long after the Empire had fallen.

			Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear\|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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	{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}		{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[~~Antigonus Gabinius~~]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar\|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] without heir.}}
	{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}		{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
	{{EventRow\|1071\|even\|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}		{{EventRow\|1071\|even\|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}

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	{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}		{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
			{{EventRow\|980\|odd\|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar\|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}

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	{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}		{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}
	{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}		{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}
			{{Eventrow\|923\|even\|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris\|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
	{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}		{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}

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	[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear\|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris\|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding\|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.		[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear\|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder\|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris\|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding\|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

	Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed ~~him~~ personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next ~~twenty years~~ he governed Cambrecia in ~~the~~ boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.		Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos\|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear\|150}}, in direct response to the Imperial edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed the King personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son. Ionnanes sent a message to the [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius\|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], who was campainging at the head of [[Legion II Simmeria]] in northern [[Ciritasnia]], and ordered him to Cambrecia to take command of both Legions and take Neptaris. The young Legate was not about to ignore his standing orders from the Emperor to attend to a mere priest, so continued his campaign north of the [[Divian Mountains]]. The Pontifex continued to plead, both to the Legate and the Emperor, but neither seemed inclined to assist. The Pontifex briefly tried to organize the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] himself, but as astute a politician and administrator he was, he was no military commander. Thus, for the next decade and a half he governed Cambrecia in a boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea. Meanwhile, in {{ICYear\|158}}, the Pontifex called upon an old family friend, the [[Publius Rufus of House Rutilius\|Praefectus Classis Publius Rufus]] of the Aescalapean minor [[House Rutilius]] to bring his fleet to the [[Maroshan Sea]] to harass the Neptaran armada, commanded by the city's first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris\|Grand Admiral]], [[Garen Taltosbane]]. Though Taltosbane himself evaded capture, over the next eight years, Rufus slowly wore down the Neptaran merchant and naval fleets, making trade by sea into the city all but impossible.

	By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>		By {{ICYear\|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide\|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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	{{EventRow\|828\|odd\|In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos\|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia\|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius\|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.}}		{{EventRow\|828\|odd\|In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos\|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia\|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius\|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.}}
	{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}		{{EventRow\|899\|even\|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}
	{{EventRow\|936\|~~odd~~\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}		{{EventRow\|916\|odd\|[[Corvos I Gweri\|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos\|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire\|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent\|Long Discontent]].}}
			{{EventRow\|936\|even\|[[St. Garimund of Ryard\|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}
			{{EventRow\|1026\|odd\|[[Severinus of House Gabinius\|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
	{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}		{{EventRow\|1062\|even\|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire\|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}
	{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}		{{EventRow\|1068\|odd\|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors\|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}