Corigan

The Kingdom of Corigan was a Rathamite state in western Tiberia in Abexilas, located on the northwestern coast of the Bay of Fangs and based around the city of Corigan. It was an extremely influential and powerful state in the Bay of Fangs region for the first two decades of the Voyager's Era in Abexilas. It's current territories are in Hallin.
The Kingdom of Corigan existed from 1 VE, when the city was founded by Sorath the Conqueror, to its merger with New Acenoty in 30 VE. Corigan continued to exist as a constituent part of Acenoty-Corigan within the Vrijsteden till 35 VE, when the last Corteir monarch Sorath III abdicated, passing the crown to the Acenotian Charles Humboldt-Dee. This functionally ended the existence of Corigan as a sovereign entity, and it was largely subsumed into the new state of Acenoty-Corigan, but was later restored as the Second Kingdom of Corigan in the year 62 VE, following their exit from the war for the North between Sahriya and it's allies and Tiberium and it's allies, which saw it's capital ceded to the Imperium of Soleaquil, continuing to exist in it's Hallin territories. 
== History ==
Corigan's history is split into multiple eras, defined by its ruling monarch at the time.
# Conquest: Sorath I "the Conqueror" Corteir, 1-9 VE
# Golden Era: Sorath II Corteir, 9-21 VE
# Phocaean Crisis: Mairon I "the Gray" Corteir, 21-25 VE, 27 VE
#* Ellie "the Usurper" Konishi, 25-27 VE
# Merger and Xing Era: Mairon Corteir II, 27-33 VE
# Last of the Corteirs: Sorath III "the Younger" Corteir, 33-35 VE
# Humboldt-Dee Dynasty: Charles Humboldt-Dee, 35-48 VE
# Aceno-Corigan Diarchy: Charles I and Doulos I, 48 VE-57 VE
# Soleaquil Rebellion Era: Sorath IV, 57 VE - 69 VE.
=== Conquest Era ===
Settlement by Testificates in modern Corigan (alternatively spelled Corigan) goes back to pre-Comet times, when the primary village on that region of coast was called Kurauth ("ice-fang", after the icebergs in the Bay of Fangs). Kurauth was razed and destroyed by the Rathamite warlord Sorath and his band of eleven raiders in the year 1 VE, with the inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved. Choosing to settle down as the reaving lifestyle had grown unsustainable, Sorath established a new town by the ruins of Korauth, naming it Corigan from Testificate kur-'igan or "ice-grave", and took on the last name Corteir, from kur-teyir meaning "ice-crown".
Sorath reigned for much of the remaining decade, establishing the structure and culture of Corigan from his raider band and new settlers, and refusing offers from the Anrolyan Imperium to join them. In 7 VE, he began construction of the royal castle of Evermore, built into a giant iceberg in the Bay of Fangs. He died shortly after Evermore's completion, from old wounds from the conquest, and was succeeded by his son Sorath II.
=== Golden Era ===
The era of Sorath II is considered the high point of the Coriganese state, largely due to an economic boom caused by the discovery of abundant sculk in caves beneath the city. Through careful management of exporting XP and sabotaging local rivals to prevent their discovery of the sculk beneath the Bay of Fangs, Sorath II succeeded in making Corigan one of the richest and most powerful states in southwest Tiberia despite its tiny size. He also normalized relations with Anrolya after his father's hostility through the iron trade, making these twenty years some of the most peaceful years Corigan would ever see.
=== Phocaean Crisis and Maecenian Coup ===
This prosperous era came to an end shortly after Sorath II's death in 21 VE. His son Mairon ascended to the throne, but the Golden Age was abruptly brought to an end by a war between the nearby Stakos-Oldhan and Stellare which disrupted grain shipments and led to food shortages in Corigan. Mairon accepted the offer of a touring princess of Maecenia, Ellie Konishi, to take up residence at his court and help deal with the diplomatic situation; as Mairon retreated inwards and dealt with the issues of impending famine, Ellie thereafter began to take on the role as the diplomatic face of Corigan, and gained greater rapport with their Acenotian and Anrolyan allies. 
In an attempt to prevent famine, Mairon imposed massive sanctions on food exports, but this caused unrest among the Coriganese people. These sentiments were secretly inflamed and manipulated by Ellie, culminating in a riot in 25 VE which breached Evermore and forced Mairon, his sons and their loyalists to flee to the Anrolyan city of Karimsilia. Ellie then seized the throne, portraying herself to their Acenotian allies as Mairon's legitimate successor after his death in the riots, and making a show of punishing her predecessors' murderers. 
While Mairon and his allies laid low in Karimsilia, regrouping and recovering from the shock of the riots, Ellie was hard at work increasing her power. She brought a retinue of Maecenian soldiers to restore order in Marengard. She then organized a union between Corigan, New Acenoty, and the Kingdom of Romilia, which became formalized in 27 VE as the Realms of Phocaea. However, Romilia ended up not joining the Realms despite its leader Mr. Batis's strong influence in their creation, due to the disagreement of the other Romilian oligarchs. 
The Free City of Cheesegorod, a member of the recently formed Vrijsted Confederation with New Acenoty, also categorically refused to join the Realms, owing to their suspicion that it was a ploy by Ellie to seize power, as well as Ellie's misinterpretation of Cheesegorod as a subservient state with New Acenoty as its capital. Romilia's decision not to join forced Ellie to agree to place the Realms as a single state under the Vrijsted Confederation. 
==== Speech on the Steps ====
The crisis began to draw to a head after Marengard's secession from Anrolya and subsequent joining of the Realms of Phocaea. The Council of the Vrijsted Confederation held an assembly at the Marengard Citadel in 26 VE, where Ellie proposed that the Realms join the Kingdom of Maecenia, the colossal state in northern Tiberia ruled by her father. The discussion became heated after Sasha Suvorov took this as a threat to Cheesegorodian sovreignity. As the argument escalated, Suvorov threatened to withdraw entirely from the Vrijsteden, while Ellie's bodyguards began to make threatening moves. Suddenly, the great creaking doors of the Citadel were thrown open, and the grey-haired Mairon appeared surrounded by a small band of loyalists, decrying Ellie as an impostor and revealing her deceptions. 
Infuriated at the lies told to the Vrijsteden, Suvorov made an impassioned speech before the gathered crowd on the steps of the gargantuan Citadel, calling the Realms of Phocaea an illegitimate state with no right to exist and demanding Ellie's arrest. Mairon announced that Corigan was no longer a member of any Realms, to which Xaeron of Acenoty, horrified at the scale of the deceptions, readily assented. Ellie, watching all her plotting unravel before her eyes, frantically insisted that Mairon had legitimately signed over Corigan to her and designated her as his heir. She attempted to coerce Salmancer IV into siding with her, threatening to have her father King Yasujirō attack Marengard, and a physical fight nearly broke out between the Maecenian guards and Mairon and Salmancer's forces, until a figure in Mairon's retinue revealed himself as Vozhd Michail of Vladistan, brother to Yasujirō of Maecenia and Ellie's uncle. On behalf of Yasujirō, he denied that Ellie's actions had had any official backing, and claimed she had gone rogue in an attempt to make a name for herself. Ellie attempted to flee, but was quickly apprehended by Mairon's guards. 
The assembly dispersed, although not before Michail delivered an ultimatum to Marengard on behalf of Anrolya in the Anrolya-Marengard Cold War. The Vrijstedian diplomats remained to work out the Treaty of Marengard, while Mairon returned to Corigan with the captive Ellie in tow. 
==== Restoration and the Maecenian expulsion ====
The throne was restored to Mairon, and he granted amnesty to most of Ellie's supporters, but felt unable to execute the captive Ellie, as she was still a princess of the powerful Maecenian kingdom. As he tried to solve this dilemma, weakened by the stress and illnesses he had acquired whilst in hiding, he died a mere two months after his restoration, succeeded by his eldest son Mairon II. 
Mairon II, a reactionary and strong opponent of his fathers' lenient treatment of the pro-Maecenians, instigated a series of brutal purges against the rioters, and executed every one of the remaining Maecenian soldiers. Disregarding diplomatic protocol, he also secretly sent assassins after Ellie, who escaped with outside help and fled back to Maecenia. She avoided Mairon's assassins, but entirely disappeared after her return to her father's court under suspicious circumstances, never to be heard from again. 
=== Mairon Corteir and the Xing Era ===
Mairon II ruled Corigan for the next years with an iron fist. The kingdom's treasury had been emptied by the usurping forces and the payment to Vladistan, necessitating an increase in taxes before it became clear this would not solve the problem in the long term, as the resources that had made Corigan rich in Sorath II's time were no longer. Meanwhile, Corigan's neighbors Anrolya and New Acenoty were growing in power.
Realizing that Corigan had become a shell of its former self, Mairon II and the Acenotian mayor Xaeron II came to the agreement to merge their states; Corigan would be absorbed by Acenoty, while Mairon would receive the title King of Acenoty-Corigan. The union was enacted in 30 VE, officially ending Corigan's time as a sovereign state; however, Mairon and the Acenotian government preserved Corigan as a separately governed region, and the King of Acenoty-Corigan received his own seat in the Vrijstedian Council of Mayors, independent from Xaeron's.
In 31 VE, shortly after the merger with Acenoty and his rebuilding of the Corigan economy, Mairon embarked on his grand plan to restore the glory of the Corteirs, by purchasing a small island named Artinoi, (later renamed Yuancheng') from Anroyla in the ocean southwest of Tiberia. He planned to establish a greater new homeland for the Corigan people here, and, infatuated with Murimese architecture and the grandness of their emperors, he hired architects from Murim to design a grand imperial city in their style. He declared himself the Xing Emperor and began the colonization of the island.
At that time, Xing was inhabited by ethnic Murimese, part of the reason Mairon was attracted to it in the first place; however, they had a substantial recent Maecenian minority and admixture. Still furious at Maecenia for what he perceived as their role in the Usurpation, Mairon had his soldiers massacre all islander men of Maecenian descent in Xing, proceeding to push a new hybrid strain of Coriganese-Murimese culture in both mainland Corigan and Xing to eliminate the Maecenian influence and pave the way for the Xing Empire's creation. He did all this in secrecy, so as to avoid inquiry from the Acenotians or other members of the Vrijsted Confederation. However, he faced resistance from both Coriganese and Murimese to the intended mass migration, impeding his plans of establishing a new age of conquest and Xing grandness.
It was during this time that Mairon completed and published one of the most famous books produced by a Coriganese author, "A Treatise on Corteirist Theory." "Corteirist Theory" was immensely popular and proved profoundly influential in Vrijstedian politics, precipitating the rise of the powerful pragmatist and monarchist Corteirist faction, originally led by Mairon himself, and the opposing confederalists, the idealistic Svobodists, led by Cheesegorodian mayor Sasha Suvorov, Mairon's primary opponent in the Vrijstedian council. Additionally, it led to Mairon's being remembered most famously as Mairon Corteir, rather than Mairon the Second, because his name became synonymous with the ideology.
Mairon Corteir was killed in Xing in 33 VE, shot by a native Murimese woman whose husband had been executed in the prior purges. The assassin escaped and was never apprehended. His younger brother succeeded him, taking on the name Sorath III "the Younger". Sorath the Younger, a calmer ruler who was not inclined to the same violence committed by his brother, cancelled Mairon's grand plan of relocation to Xing, instead maintaining Xing as a separate territory and ending the assimilationist policies towards both Corigan and Xing.
=== Rozul Crisis and the End of the Corteirs ===
In place of the Xing project, Sorath the Younger focused more on building a cohesive bond between Corigan and Acenoty, believing the well-being of Corigan depended more on strengthening existing bonds than grand new colonies. This lasted until an offer from Emperor Adino I of Rozul, a Halinnite nation deep to the south of Abexilas, to sell the nation for a cheap price. Sorath purchased Rozul, thus becoming Emperor Sorath I of Rozul, King Sorath III Corteir of Acenoty-Corigan, and Emperor Sorath of Xing all at once.
Unfortunately, Suvorov soon brought unwelcome news to Sorath, namely that the Empire of Rozul, following territorial disagreements between Adino and Scaligan leaders, had been on the brink of invasion by Scaliga for some years. Scaliga was a member of the Halinn League, which Cheesegorod was also a member of, posing a potential significant diplomatic issue if the League declared war against a Confederation member. Instead of potentially shattering the Confederation against itself, Sorath offered the throne of Rozul to Suvorov, who turned him down. Sorath then sold Rozul to an Anroylan noble instead.
Sorath began to prepare for a full abdication, methodically setting his affairs in order. He compiled a collection of writings by his four Corteir predecessors into a single volume, which he gave to Suvorov, who promised to translate and publish it for all Abexilas to see. In the year 35 VE, Sorath III publicly stepped down from his position, bringing the Corteir dynasty to an end. He crowned Charles Humboldt-Dee, an Acenotian statesman and Sorath's friend, as his successor.
the realm of Yuancheng, was given to a branch of the dynasty which had intermarried with the Yimmu-Audal merchant family La'Vey, thus becoming La'Vey-Corteirs of Yuancheng, or simply, the Corteirs of Yuancheng who ruled as independent rulers of their island state. Whilst remaining a pure-blood Coriganite kingdom as Mairon II once envisioned, it did not possess the fervent worship of sculk, instead following a similar religion of worshipping ancestral trees.
Several days after the ceremony, Sorath gave his possessions to Lord Mayor Suvorov and King Charles, bade them farewell, and said it was time for him to explore anew, He then walked into the icy waters of the Bay of Fangs, soon disappearing from sight, and was never seen again.
==== Acenoty-Corigan Era ====
Over the following two decades, the Coriganese and Acenotian people became mostly assimilated with one another, with Coriganese coming to see themselves as Acenotians and using the Acenotian language, while Acenotians adopted Corigan as a cultural predecessor. Mairon Corteir's Corteirist theory continues to be greatly influential to the present day, with many of its core tenets being adopted and modernized by neo-Corteirists in the Vrijstedian government.
The leadership of Cheesegorod eventually withdrew from the Halinn League, partially due both to new policies being placed by the League's leadership and the history of the Rozul Crisis, as well as influence from Mairon Corteir's opposition to Cheesegorod's separatist tendencies.
Humboldt-Dee continued to hold the (largely ceremonial) title of King of Acenoty-Corigan for a decade, until he split the title with one of the original Acenotian migrants, Doulos, while Xaeron moved further into his role as the President of the Confederation. Thus, King Charles of Corigan and King Doulos of Acenoty became a ruling diarchy, and Corigan was in a way paradoxically reborn.
In 53 VE (whether due to his long journeys or waiting out of respect, it is unclear), Suvorov translated the manuscript given to him by Sorath the Younger into Kescherian and published it under the title of "Of Swords and Stars". 
==== Soleaquilan Annexation ====
In 55 VE, the newly formed Holy Imperium of Soleaquil, the successors of the Anrolya Imperium, offered the Vrijsteden to join them. The Confederation flatly refused, but Emperor Garlic attempted to start a coup within the Aceno-Coriganese government, bringing King Doulos of Acenoty to his side. Soleaquilan agents induced discord amongst the Aceno-Coriganese population, fear mongering and spreading rumors that President Xaeron had chosen to join Soleaquil. When this was unconvered by the Confederation's government, Suvorov lead a campaign to banish Garlic from the Confederation, which eventually passed along with a motion to strip Doulos of his title.
In 57 VE, after delivering an ultimatum, Soleaquil invaded and annexed Acenoty-Corigan, violating the NAP with the Vrijsteden established by the Treaty of Marengard. The majority of the Aceno-Coriganese population were evacuated to Cheesegorod. After Soleaquil integrated Corigan and Acenoty, Emperor Garlic's elite team of knights, the Emperor's Hand, found visited the son of Mairon II, Sorath IV, who lived in Ratthattan for his safety after Mairon's assassination, and installed him as the new ruler of Corigan under Soleaquil in an effort to restore order in the city, as it was on the brink of rebellion. This marked the effective end of the Confederacy within the Tiberian mainland, although the city of Rapture, a tiny islet, would become the new capital. 
==== Corigan Rebellion ====
In the year 60 VE, seeing the evolving state of the Sahriyan-Tiberium conflict known as the "Great Northern War", Sorath IV saw the opportunity to regain Corigan's independence. First, he allegedly approached Sahriyan diplomats and offered to betray the newly formed Tiberian Commonwealth for money. However, Sahriya quickly rejected this offer. Instead, a deal was worked out in which the Imperial State of Corigan would join the Holy Sahriyan Empire for a period of 3 years, after which they would be rendered a completely independent nation without having any overlord. 
Whilst originally intending to wait until the course of the war was made clear, a member of the Sahriyan diplomatic party drunkenly declared that they had "taken a kingdom from the Commonwealth without a drop of blood" in a bar in Acenoty's mainstreet, which made it's way back to Emperor Garlic. 
Garlic had issued Sorath IV a summon to arrive in Marengard. Sorath IV refused, fearing for his safety, confirming to the Soleaquil aristocracy that there was in fact, a rebellion on their hands. 
Following this, Garlic and Sorath IV exchanged words and it was decided that Corigan would become an independent but vassalized state, within the Tiberian Commonwealth. However, Sorath IV believed that the Emperor had agreed to easily, and suspected that Garlic had no intention of actually following through with this deal. In an effort to push the Emperor's hand, Sorath IV sent a missive to the surrounding nations that Corigan had been restored to being an independent state. This was heard by Mikhail Istvan Tiberian, who intervened and declared that Corigan would not be an independent nation, vassal or otherwise. 
As a result, Sorath IV invoked his treaty with Sahriya, becoming part of their Empire in the year 62 VE.
==== Second Kingdom of Corigan ====
Despite the connection made between the cities of Acenoty and Corigan during the period in which it was unified as "Acenoty-Corigan" over which the Corteir dynasty ruled, this new incarnation did not claim to be Acenotian in the slightest, despite holding the city of Acenoty. It considered itself utterly and entirely Coriganise. This became very evident when Sorath IV made an edict that the religion of Altredonism would be taxed heavily, having the status of their formerly national holidays revoked, and that the central cathedral would be repurposed if any issues arose. 
Whilst the natural resources of the Corath peninsula had been stripped bare, (the once dense spruce forests had been all but destroyed, without enough remaining to maintain the topsoil layer of the biome, the amethyst geodes beneath Old Corigan had been spent, the ivory trade of leviathan bones had collapsed, and the fishing stock had been exhausted) the Second Kingdom's economic capacity was nowhere near the level that it had once possessed. As a result Sorath IV put out a call to any and all brigands, pirates, and highwaymen that any who intended to raid, pillage or plunder the entire continient of Tiberium, which Sahriya and by extension Corigan was at war with, could do so by using Corigan as their home port. This resulted in a massive income of wealth for Corigan as reavers plunged the western coast of the Tiberian continient into chaos with lightning raids on settlements from Marengard to Krasnoi. Additionally, investments were made in trawling the reefs south of Valondor, causing severe ecological destruction but being extremely profitable as the coral and pearl gemstones would allow for further investments into ventures of piracy, further worsening the conditions on the coast. The pirates also served as mercenaries, and were sent as the Kingdom's force to the Battle of Maringrad. 
Furthermore, during the middle stages of this war, Sahriya had begun to suffer economic turmoil, and as a result sent educated teachers to each of its allies to found war-breweries. As a result, Corigan inherited knowledge of combat narcotics. Although some had been tithed to Sahriya, most had been skimmed and sold at a profit to auction houses. With these hefty profits from raiding and trafficking, Corigan sought to look to its own future after the war and Sorath IV purchased land from the Kingdom of Emprosia to be used as an emerald mining colony by the name of Re-Corath, meaning 'New Corath' after the penninsula 
=== Formation and of the Corath Empire ===
In the year 68 VE, the city of Cynthigard rebelled from Soleaquil and formed the Kingdom of Cynthigard, which then fell, de-facto, under the authority of Corigan. Thus the cities of Corigan, Acenoty, Cynthigard, the island of Lower Gaedia,Yuancheng, and Re-Corath became the Corath Empire. 
==== Exiting the war ====
Almost immediately following the declaration of the Empire, Sahriya's Shah called for a meeting of all it's Shura for a special announcement. Expecting a battle plan or even a peace treaty with Tiberium as two battles had been won. Instead, Sahriya announced that it would dissolve and be annexed by Solge, as they had run out of money entirely and instead of carrying on with the war, the Shah instead sought to enter Solge's upper nobility in order to maintain his own personal power. 
This was met with immense disdain from subjects from much of it's territories and vassals. Seen as a cowardly move in an effort to preserve only their own wealth. 
When this news reached Castle Evermore in Corigan, Sorath IV allegedly murdered the Sahriyan emissary outright and placed their head on the bridge between the city and Marengard. Following this, war preparations were made. Still holding mercenaries and significant assets enough to buy more, the leadership of Corigan declared they would choose oblivion of their civilization before simply surrendering to Soleaquil. As a result, Sorath IV signed a annexation agreement with the Republic of Corry and prepared to enter the final stages of the war, showing their dedication to the cause by beheading the central shrine statue of the Altredonist religion in Acenoty. 
However, this stance was softened when it was revealed that the second prince had made an offer to Emperor Garlic offering to overthrow his father and become a posssession of Soleaquil once more. Realizing the amount of support that this traitorous prince had from those of Acenoty, the same officials that had surrendered the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Acenoty-Corigan previously and brought about the current state of affairs, Sorath IV deemed those of Acenoty ethnicity to be inherently treacherous and sought instead for the survival of his own people. 
This was further cemented when the city of Cynthigard surrendered unsolicited to Soleaquil.
As a result of these events, Sorath IV opted to negotiate with Emperor Garlic. An uneven peace was reached wherein Soleaquil would receive the cities of Corigan and Acenoty and recognition of Cythingard, whilst Re-Corath would remain in the hands of the Empire, which would then be called 'the Empire of Re-Corath'. Soleaquil would then tithe 10% of the amethyst mine's yield to the Re-Corath, alongside a significant amount of lumber for Re-Corath's new capital to be constructed, and the Black Trident Company would be made free of any taxes and permitted to hunt and export the snowmen of the region to Re-Corath despite Soleaquil's ban on slavery, as the Coriganese people had practiced slavery of them for so long and labor was crucial to the operation of the new emerald mines. 
Although the homeland of the Coriganese people had been lost, the new nation would be a continuation of the Kingdom of Corigan, being the same political entity simply renamed. Sorath IV would publicly reflect on his rebellion as a failure but had successfully caused the creation of a sovereign state for his people, as he did not consider Yuancheng to be 'pure' given their different religion, and further denounced the Acenoty people, and the Humbolt-Dee and Doulos lineages as being 'weak and cowardly, having surrendered the future of the entire civilization simply of their own whim' and with his last act, created a series of laws that discriminated against the people of Acenoty from ever finding refuge or entrance into Re-Corath's borders. 
A contingent of the Corrigan people that stayed behind within Acenoty-Corrigan would form an organization known as the "Knights of Sorrow" which would be dedicated to establishing a fourth Coriganite state should Re-Corath and Yuancheng fall. 
=== Mairon III "The Red" Corteir and the Kingdom of Corrigan ===
Sorath IV willingly abdicated his throne while still alive in the summer of 73 VE, becoming the first Corriganise monarch to do so apart from Sorath III, who has attempted to dissolve the dynasty itself previously. He was succeeded by Mairon III who saw a need for drastic change within the realm. He immediately returned the name of the nation to being "Corrigan" and went about making Corrigan far more militaristic. he began by ordering a military force to decimate and absorb the nearby "Tribe of the Duck", which was successful with little casualties apart from a few of the vex host. Following this they attempted to annex two more surrounding tribes, including Talem and the Tribe of the Wolf, but both tribes pledged themselves to Solge before anything could happen.
As a result, Mairon III focused on the construction efforts in the new capital of Re-Corrigan, leading to a semi-automatic chicken farm which yielded almost 800 eggs per hour, and a new brewery. Only a year later in 74 VE, Black Trident reported to the King that the forests, snowmen, and amethyst mines had been stripped bear in the former nation of Corrigan. 
== Religion ==
The Coriganese people worshiped the sculk that lives in the caverns beneath Corigan. They believed that if a body was placed within the sculk's vicinity, the soul could enter the sculk, thus becoming part of a collective afterlife. If a person's remains were not placed within the sculk caverns, their soul would enter into oblivion. Wardens, being produced by this sculk, were worshipped as avatars of the ancestor's souls coagulated into a single point. Whilst no official 'rules' or true priests existed for this faith, the monarchy held control over the caverns and if an individual was a criminal, they would be executed and their bodies tossed into the sea. As a result the monarchs became arbiters of the fate of ones soul, achieveing a sort of 'pseudo-divinity' in the religious beliefs of the Corigan people. 
During the days of the Humboldt-Dee and Doulos diarchy, the religion of Altredonism thrives but following the Corteir Restoration, Sorath IV first dictated that all Altredonist religious holidays are now null and void, and that sculk worship had been restored as the state religion, and then in the final days went as far as to outright ban the faith, turning the unfinished cathedral into a brewery for the war effort and beheading anyone who practiced it publicly. 
After the peace treaty between Corath and Soleaquil was signed and the city was ceded to Soleaquil, immense religious upheavel was had. This was because if the Corrigan people were separated from their land, it was the same as being separated from their ancestral afterlife as much of the sculk could not be moved and it's destruction was anathema. As a result, there was a long standing emnity between Corriganite people and Solamites long after the war ended and would occassionally result in raids on the old Anroylan cities as reprisals for what they perceived as "behavior unbefitting men worthy of the air they breathe". 
 
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