Sturozi VIII

Sturozi VIII Áskh was the third Wérgóm of the Gate Kingdom, who ruled in 172-193 abv (Syannic Calendar). He had two Wérgómi-names in his early reign. The Sodomizer of Syannics and The Subduer of Doryians. He was prouder of the latter one. However, when he was getting older an elder Karl and member of the High Gate Council refused to agree to his commands and he unleashed total destrcution upon his family, which started the Great War Of the Gates and ended with his family, the founders of the Gate Kingdom, losing the throne.
==Subduer of Doryians==
Sturozi was a passionate hater of Doryi people and what he hated most about them was their cruelty and egoism. He decided that because of this Doryians are not able to rule them selves as vassals of the Gate Kingdom but instead they are to be totally subdued and Vidstossi are to settle their lands and use them as slaves on the fields.
And so happened with little resistance due to the superior bloodline of the Vidstossi. Some researchers from Syan have however claimed that the fact that most able-bodied Doryian men were sent in to the forest for a grand scale mission around that time probably played its part.
==Relations with Za'ah==
During Sturozi's reign, contacts was established with the Za'ahene Empire, which recently had finished their own eight decades long grand-scale conquest of the Eldan lands to the south-west. Sturozi opted, despite criticism from his Jarls (who wanted war) to establish peaceful diplomatic relations with Za'ah - despite the way the Za'ahenes treated the defeated Eldans.
==Eldan Migrations==
Sturozi's most controversial decision, which was to shape most of his reign, was when he during the late 170s decided to open the borders of the Gate Kingdom for the Eldan people, by signing the Treaty of Rodmuthana with the representatives of Za'ah. The Gate Kingdom offered the Eldans to settle as auxiliaries and tributary vassals in the extreme south of its territory. However, hundreds of thousands of Eldans, including tens of thousands of men of age, took up the offer, and settled within Gate territory, leading to conflicts about water, land, pastures and vendettas between Eldan clans. Famines also erupted within the territory, and some of the Eldan tribes and constellations moved north, into areas which were being settled by ethnically Vidstossi farmers. This led to instability and ethnic wars throughout the western
parts of the empire, and large parts of the upper nobility, especially in the west, turned against the Wérgóm, whom they saw as responsible for the crisis and as increasingly unable to control the situation.
==Planned invasion of Rahulia==
As a response to the Eldan Migration Crisis, Sturozi aimed to invade Rahulia, in order to carve out a new homeland for the Eldan people in northern Rahulia. The plan was that the invasion would be largely dependent on Eldan manpower, which also would serve to draw the parties of Eldans moving across the Gate Kingdom to Risante, where the invasion was assembling. The plan would also show the Gate nobility that Sturozi had regained the control and consolidate support behind the Gate King. However, several small Wérgómates in the east stood between the Gate Kingdom and Rahulia, and these states were unwilling to let through the Eldan forces, leading to clashes and killings of Vidstos people by Eldans on a mission of the Vidstos Wérgóm. The Eldan forces were also operating autonomously, and were often invading or moving into the territory of neutral states, and even attacking settlements within the Gate Kingom.
==The castration of Ashbal Varedi==
Ashbal Varedi, one of the oldest Eldermen in the Grand Council, requested a meeting with Sturozi and complained loudly to the Wérgóm about the unfolding crisis. The Wérgóm told him about his plan. The Elderman nodded and said, "Good! Then the Grand Council can give you support for your actions, my Wérgóm." As the old man exited the room, however, he turned around. "But if you fail, we might have to seek us another Wérgóm." For that insolence, Sturozi had him arrested, stripped of his position in the council, castrated. Sturozi also arrested the sons of Ashbal Varedi and made a similar treatment unto them, which was a grave insult from the House of Áskh to the House of Varedi.
==The Defiance of Ahara==
Already greatly dissatisfied by the Wérgóm's Eldan policy, many of the Houses convened to elect themselves a new king. As the Varedis, who previously had been great supporter of the Áskhs had been slighted, they assembled in Ahara and declared a relative of Sturozi king, as they did not want to get rid of the Áskhs. They assembled their grievances in a declaration, which they sent to all the nobles of the Gate Kingdom.
The declaration of Ahara was read as follow:
"To all free men, jarls, karls and knights of the Vidstos Race.
Sturozi VIII did do violence on the elderman of the Grand Council, who also is my beloved brother, for remarking that if the king does not act in the interest of the Vidstos Race, that it is upon the Council to elect a king who will act in the interest of the Vidstos Race.
We have with bafflement seen the developments of the last few years, where the king has invited nearly one million settlers speaking a foreign language to settle inside the kingdom of the Gates. Food is taken from the royal depository and given to these families from the west, who multiply like locusts and before long will eat all the surplus produced by honest Vidstossi freemen.
Sturozi VIII has now promised the lands of Rahulia to these "Eldans". Thus, Vidstossi blood shall flow to establish a war-like kingdom to the east of us, while we are paying the foreign and depraved Za'ah for delivering more of these strangers to be paid for by royal requisitions.
The murders of men of great and established houses is but the final drip in the jug. We, the Vidstossi people, men of pure blood, can not any longer endure this abuse and tyranny.
As notified earlier, this insurrection has four causes.
1 ~ The mass-invasion of Eldan foreign tribes on Vidstossi soil.
2 ~ The usage of royal food reserves to feed foreign women and children.
3 ~ The plan to invade Rahulia to give it away to the Eldans.
4 ~ The tyrannical actions of king Sturozi VIII against House Varedi, without due trial nor right to defend one self, befitting more a Doriyan vizier or a Za'ahene nizak than a Vidstossi sovereign.
Therefore, we are hereby declaring a defiance against king Sturozi VIII.
We urge the king to affirm that he acted in the wrong, abdicate from his throne and leave the Vidstos lands. In return, no harm will be done on the king or on the royal family, and neither shall a trial be held against Sturozi VIII of house ´Askh in regards to his multiple crimes.
If the king refuses to surrender before these terms, we urge all the officers, jarls and karls to side with our cause and help us arrest Sturozi of house ´Askh, so he can be brought before a trial, or if impossible, incapacitate him if he would violently resist the arrest.
We urge all Vidstossi to swear allegiance to Rodmuth III Beothar, of House ´Askh, and to help us in this struggle to restore the Kingdom of the Gates.
Haraspa of House Varedi
Akkal of House Varedi
Safa-Thaspa of House Thaspa
Beothar of House Ingald
Sturozi of House Asturo
Galthar of House Ineri
Rodmuth Beothar of House ´Askh"
==The Great War of the Gates==
Preceded by	Reign 	Succeeded by
Rodmuth II 	172-193  abv	Mellak I
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