Woodcutter's Rebellion

The Woodcutter's Rebellion was a spontaneous revolt by the common people in certain parts of Kelimaria against their Suagir Tovaanid overlords. It broke out in the spring of 956 CV, shortly after the final collapse of the Aotujan Empire (which had begun with the massive Suagir defeat at the Battle of Shamach against the Phyridians over a decade earlier). These events showed the Kelims that the Suagir empires ruled by Torkai's sons were not invincible. By the following year, 957, the rebellion had spread and grown into a general revolt across the whole region, which eventually led to the downfall of the Tovaanid empire and its replacement by a renewed Kelimarian Sultanate. This new sultanate would last nearly three centuries until Gol Garga’s invasions and the death of Sultan Olugar IX and his heir in 1247 CV. 
The name of the Woodcutter’s Rebellion stemmed from the fact that it was made up largely of common people from the vast forest expanses of the Kelimarian countryside; peasants, timber-cutters, hunters, trappers, and so forth. Many of them were armed with improvised weapons such as cudgels, repurposed farm implements, and--iconically--woodsmen’s axes.