Enerin Uprising

The **Enerin Uprising** was a civil revolt in the Empire of Sevicia in the year 706 A.S. It was mostly centred around the western city of Enerin, located in the Cape region of Sevicia, where an army of separationists calling themselves the Free State of Enerin captured the city's governing council building and shortly after, the city proper. The conflict lasted roughly three months before it was soundly defeated in battle and its leaders rounded up and executed.

## History

The Free State of Enerin was a separationist movement spearheaded by three key figures:

* **Mausarius,** a noble of the Pons clan (unrelated to the former Imperator of Sevicia).
* **Edmund Penn,** an infamous revolutionary and pro-separationist from the city of Caelum.
* **Thaddeus Ryme,** a local councillor who believed in the dissolution of the Sevician state and autonomy for its individual regions.

In late of 705, with the backing of a number of local governors from neighbouring settlements, the three began the long plans for rebellion. The Cape and northern regions of Sevicia had long since held a distaste for the wealthier, more favoured eastern and southern regions, and finding support among the local villages and towns was not difficult at all. At the time of the takeover of Enerin, their supporter base numbered more than 20,000, with more than 10,000 capable fighters.

## Order of battle

Word reached the capital of Morosea about the revolt rapidly. Fearing that any sudden worsening of the situation could throw the empire into a civil crisis similar to the Anaean Wars almost 50 years earlier, the reigning Imperator, Olon, dispatched three full legions, numbering 15,000 men plus auxiliaries, to suppress the revolt: the third and 20th legions under the command of Alexander Mayam and the ninth legion, under the command of Renan Demarian.

By late in Tullena II, the second month of the year 706, the Free State forces had left a small garrison defending the city of Enerin and marched southeast, towards South Pyk and Reila. The cold and wet weather proved a hindrance to both the Imperial and Free State forces, with combat delayed due to poor visbility and a lack of adequate supplies for a number of weeks. On the second day of Mandera I, the two opposing sides met in a skirmish fifteen miles west of South Pyk, where the legions under Mayam and Demarian won a decisive victory. The fleeing Free State army was pursued almost to the Gaetan Mountains to the east of Enerin, and on the 24th of Mandera I, merely seven weeks after the uprising began, was handily defeated in the Battle of Gnos. More than 8000 were killed over a day of fighting and all three leaders were captured and handed over to the Imperial forces.

Three weeks later, on the 12th of Mandera II, the Imperial forces under Mayam and Demarian walked through the gates of Enerin to no resistance. Mayam, then the supreme commander of the entire Sevician army, disobeyed a direct order from Sevician high command when he refused to round up and execute more than a thousand local nobles, but ultimately was not punished for fear it would only stir further tensions.

## Aftermath

Though it proved short and decisive, the revolt inflicted a heavy toll on the Sevician Senate, who were reminded of the costly Anaean Wars half a century earlier and of the north's general disdain for the capital and the southern cities. Mayam and Demarian were commended for their service, with Mayam receiving the Grand Eagle with Wreath and Cross and Demarian the Grand Eagle with Cross, Sevicia's second and third-highest military honours, respectively.