League of Yozstan

The League of Yozstan, named after its founder Yozstan the First, is an anarchic society without a single governing body. The society is radically religious, breaking from the traditions of the Old Imperial Church and organizing themselves under The Divine Selves.
The League is not governed, instead decision are made by the whole society through individual action and unorganized debates and votes.
It is currently in a state of rebellion, trying to break free from the Confederation of Haystan and spread their faith further. Despite moderate military success, the league is not recognized by any other Imperials state.
== Geography ==
The League of Yozstan is a relatively small nation, hugging the eastern coast of Hylthia.
In the north, it reaches into the southern parts of the Westfallen-Mountains. In the centre it is contained by the Poisonspine Swamp, Lost Hope Swamp and the Dark Depths lake. In the south it reaches into the northern parts of the Seapressed Mountain Range.
Apart from its coast, the league is entirely surrounded by the Confederation of Haystan.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
The League of Yozstan is an exceedingly young nation, openly launching their rebellion in the year 1548 AtS. Its origins can be traced back to Yozstan the First. Being born as the son of a minor country noble family owning several farm estates near Splachen.
Yozstan, after failing several educations, apparently had a deep revelation of the truth of divinity, being and reality, founding the cult that would eventially become The Divine Selves.
The cult first synergised with the local Familial Imperial Church and slowly spread through the countryside around Splachen to Yurr. Eventually, after Yozstan was executed in Yurr for his radical rhetoric, the cult fully rejected any teaching of the Imperial Church.
The farmers, through refusal to work, frequent moving and mob strategy, made themselves ungovernable. Eventually, the nobility gave up and retreated to the cities, sure that the peasantry would come to their senses in time once the countryside has fallen to lawlessness.
This however did not come to pass. The peasantry, while not establishing any governing body, kept each other in check. Capturing and converting bandits through mob action.
The law free countryside became the admiration of the cities workers, who chafed under the nobility's rules and taxes. Increasingly, many poor people would flee from the cities to the countryside, converting to the Divine Selves and sometimes, returning to bring the faith to their friends back home.
Similarly, many artists, most often young nobles dissatisfied with the old ways and its rules, came to romanticise the free nature and intimacy of the peasantry. In paintings, poems, stories, and songs they lamented the distant and cold apparatus of the state and nobility and contrasted it with the worry free and compassionate peasantry.
Eventually this would all lead to the Yurr Uprising in 1548 AtS. The urban peasants overwhelmed or convinced the local guard to stand down and opened the gates, the rural peasantry stormed in and the nobility trying to hide or flee were revealed by their sons and daughters. Any trace of the nobility and government were abolished, and the city fell into a state of anarchic-democracy, with individualistic action and spontaneous votes and open debates dictating the course of the city's reconstruction. The success of the Yurr Uprising invigorated the peasantry and in the coming years, many other such uprisings would overwhelm other nearby cities. 
Though the remnants of the nobility tried to organize a defence, the sheer number and genuinely popular nature of the uprising meant that even the most well organized defences were either overwhelmed or betrayed from within. Eventually, Grand Princess Lorelei von Rittersdamm of the Confederation of Haystan would arrive to stem the tide. She assumed a defensive position, guarding the cities and countrysides to stop the cult from spreading further. To ensure discipline and loyalty of her soldiers, she established the knightly Order of the Eye, a secret police force tasked with finding and eliminating sympathizers of the cult's cause.
Despite the containment being a success and reclaiming small parts of territory, the Grad Princess was unable to garner support from the House of Princes. After the start of the Sibling's War and the Emberot Crisis, she had to withdraw most of her troops and attention, leaving the containment dangerously undermanned.
Now, the league is once again slowly spreading, with small cells of the faithful making it past the blockades to spread the word of their faith further to all that would listen.
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