Struggle for the South

The Struggle for the South, beginning in 1649, was a series of inter-related disputes and conflicts following the Elwynnese confiscation of Mishalan and the collapse, demotion and or dissolution of the Lich Realms of Lichbrook and Minarboria, ending the dominion of the dead over the lands of southern Benacia. The disputes saw an increase in anti-Elwynnese sentiment and the first semblance of opposition to the Ayreon-Kalirion dynastic succession to the Mango Throne.

Fall of Lichbrook

Loss of Statehood

• Cessation of government as defined by Imp. Charter
• Nostalgia's revolt/exile
• Reconstituted as Imperial Dominion

Partition

• Recreation of Duchy of Brookshire as Imperial Dominion

Into the Lichlands

Operation Erebus

• The suppression of Communist Mishalan
  • Detention of senior officials and party functionaries
  • "Epistle of Warranty": Relations between III Corps of the Frontier Army and Elwynnese occupation forces
• Protection of southern Tellia
• Pursuit of Mishalanski Refugees
• Annexation of Karalakh
• Inner Benacian Quarantine Zone

• 04 Qinamu 1649 - citing Charter (Article V, Section D), Lichbrook deprived of statehood. Altea Lomax appointed Imperial Governor.
• 23 Qinamu 1649 - The Countess of Amarr, a Lich rejoicing in the improbable title of Lady Nostalgia the Eager, is deprived of her titles and offices for an act of lèse majesté. Imperial Forces instructed to enforce the surrender of Lichbrook.
• 34 Qinamu 1649 - the Kingdom of Lichbrook breaks off communications with Imperial Government and mobilised it's military.
• 35 Qinamu 1649 - the government of Lichbrook orders the arrest of all Imperial Government officials in the service of Base 3-C in Amarr. The Dirigent of Musica arrived in Lichkeep.
• 04 Silnuai 1650 - The Lich Countess orders that her forces "exterminate (sic) one of those arrested each year and throw their heads in the river".
• 20 Silnuai 1650 - An ill-conceived Lichbrookian plot to place a bomb in the luggage of the mediating Natopian Regent, Christo Eucalyptos, on his visit to Raynor's Keep is foiled by Jeremy Archer and the Shirekeep City Guard.
• 19 Gevrader 1650 - invasion of Minarborian Tellia and Karalakh.
• 24 Filadinu 1650 - Lichkeep is surrendered to Shirekeep and transferred to the Imperial County. The crumbling Lich Countess subsequently fled to Treisenberg.

Operation Credulity's Edge

• Kalgachi Defence Force occupation of Sansabury for purposes of securing international recognition as successor to moribund Minarborian Empire.
• Establishing "line of contact" with Shirerithian Imperial Forces

Protests in Shirekeep

• Appeals for leniency towards Mishalan regime, preservation of autonomy, cultural identity
• Concerns notable amongst non-Elwynnese citizenry at perceived Elwynnese "high-handedness"
• Regent holds firm on irrevocable transfer of Mishalan to Elwynnese control

Foreign reactions

• Kalgachi concern over "Froyalanic homogenesis" leads to offer of asylum for Mishalanski refugees
• Hostility and scepticism in international institutions (MCS:"quit yo monopolising") over relentless Shirerithian territorial expansion

"The appetite grows with the eating"

The misadventures of Kizzy Drakland

• Where does one even begin?
• Self-styled Daemon-Queen
• Bearer of the Sword of Fire
• Purges Lichbrook of remaining Liches with, appropriately enough, fire and the sword
• Leads surviving mortal population towards a new future under a Daemonically influenced regime
• Relations with Cedrists uncertain

Landings along the littoral

• Lachmeren
• Lywall
• Siyachia