The Andoloth Rebellion

The slums started to form once the pass system was introduced 730AD to curb the rapid expansion of the city and lawlessness that was taking over. This resulted in numerous people being kicked out of their quarters and having no where to go but their jobs still being in Andoloth.
These disgruntled people set up outside the walls instead. By 732AD, there were slums appearing outside each quarter of the city and Duke Martin wanted these 'unclean' people gone.
He launched attacks on all the slums simulataneously deploying the full might of the Andoloth army. The slums outside the scholars quarter fell within minutes to the sword and flame.
The Gold Quarter slums held out for an hour before succuming. The Noble Quarter slums held for a day but surrendered in return for their lives/exile.
Only the slums in the peoples quarter held firm, partially due to being the largest and due to having experienced fighters amongst them. When the army came marching against the slums to were decisively defeated by a smaller army. The leader of this army, a former Knight named Henry knew he had to act quickly before the Duke could bring the rest of his army to bear on them and that he needed more experienced men.
The key to the rebellion at this point for the remaining slums was their experience as their army was mainly comprised of former guardsmen and soldiers for the Duke. The men coming to kill them were fresh recuits with maybe an experienced man for every 100.
Henry gathered up all the gold that could be found and sent a envoy to to Alberharb to ask for Clansmen support.
While an envoy travelled, Henry had to make a move to secure his position, this came in form of a daring night attack on the walls.
Ladders were made and the men waited until dark.
In possibly his most daring move, Henry scaled the walls and surprised the men atop them. An hour of brutal fighting ensued in which Henry and his men were victorious and opened the gates allowing all his people to get inside the walls of Andoloth, drastically changing their future prospects.
Henry sets up his command tent on Wolfson Rise and makes his next plan, to take the walls surrounding the peoples quarter and use them offensively to stop any further attacks as the guards atop the walls still rained arrows and rocks down on the men below.
An assault on the scholars wall was repelled in which Henry lost half his fighting men. This is when he received a message from the Duke demanding his surrender and he will be allowed to live in exile but Henry and his men were prepared to fight to the death.
It was this morning that the Clansmen arrived, Warmaster Ragnar Frostwind had dispatched the entire II Legion under the command of Roderik Loptfold.
They quickly got to work preparing the assualt on the Scholars Wall. While this was on going the Duke was amassing most of his men in the Noble Quarter and preparing the assault the bridge into the People Quarter.
This where these clansmen etetched their name into Andolothian history and represents a high point in Clansmen popular opinion before the Great Slaughter.
Contemporary scholars had the numbers of the Dukes army going into the battle at 15,000, bolstered by fresh mercenaries from the west.
Just before noon, the first of the Dukes men advanced across the bridge into the waiting clansmen spears.
The first day the Duke lost 2,000 men, the second he lost 3,000.
The duke tried to send men across makeshift bridges to encircle the clansmen but were always burnt by waiting people with torches working under Henry.
The 3rd day was the bloodiest with the Duke losing 7,000 men in a desperate push that saw them make it across the bridge but still found themself surrounded by clansmen spears. The dead had gotten so numerous that the defenders had started piling them along the bank as a wall.
By the 4th day there were only a hundred clansmen left so the Duke send his last 3,000 men across the bridge thinking his victory finally in hand. The fighting is the fiercest yet with bodies clogging the bridge and the river beneath but the Dukes men are forced to retreat.
The clansmen are almost all gone by this point with their commander Roderick Loptfold having fallen leaving Torstein 'Thunderhand' to take command of the roughly 30 remaining clansmen.
Now Henry unveils his final plan, during the fighting, he has been building barges to take his men upriver and now that the Dukes men were either dead or retreating they pushed the barges into the water and paddled upstream while enduring a pattering of arrows and bolts.
Now deep in Andoloth, they could control the city from the middle and the Duke knew it. He sent messengers asking for a truce and offered terms for his surrender.
Over the next week, Henry and the Duke talked over the terms. In the end the terms of the Peoples Treaty were as followed:
- The Slums outside the peoples quarter is to remain.
- Duke Martin abdicates and is exiled to Kings Keep where he dies 5 years later of an unknown sickness
- Henry is named Captain of the Peoples Quarter
- The Slums are tax exempt (later repealed in 865AD)
- All those forced to leave their homes are paid 4 gold pieces each
- 1,000 gold pieces are to be sent to Alberharb as payment for the lives they gave the cause. To be paid in installments of 10 gold each year for 100 years (repealed in 784AD, resulting in years of Clansmen raids on Imperial towns and cities)
Now, centuries later the slums are partically another quarter of Andoloth.