Unrest in Enkidu

The riots across Enkidu only increase in fervour, with many martyrs being made in Elderline as the Enkidi governor cracks down on now illegal spirit worship, to little success. This would go on for many years before one faithful night, under a harvest moon, 1,000s of Karuthen natives rose up in a full blown revolt. They would break into homes and businesses owned by people from Enkidu, treating them limb from limb in the streets, assaulting their wives and daughters and keeping any sons to be sold into slavery. The buildings would be torn to the ground, and as the rebel forces grew in confidence they would also grow in size as many more would join the rebels. By the end of the week the whole cities garrison had been killed or enslaved.

Word would reach Rashur Rasmedĭs of Enkidu who ordered his royal guard and the armies of Enkidu be rallied up to retake the northern provinces that had now declared themselves to be the Republic of Katūmallef and now independent from the “Tyrannical rule of the Erigi”. Forces from the Kingdom of Karuthen would march south to try and reclaim their lost land but would be ambushed the valleys and slaughtered to a man. This victory would un-nerve the armies of Enkidu, as they only expected a weakly armed militia, not a force that could stop the largest empire in the north. Nether the less by the end of the month the army was making camp within a mile of the sheltered city.

Rasmedĭs hoped to relive the victory of his grandfather, Adrahasis of Urudik, at the battle of Elderline. He even went so far as to wear the same set of armour the mighty Rashur had worn almost 60 years ago. Catapults where arranged to launch massive boulders into the walls of the city, and some at the mountain sides, aimed to cause a rock slide that could break the defences, to no avail. Eventually he would decide to try and just brute force his way into the city so lead a change of his finest troops. They would advance behind a shield wall to deflect arrow blows and would be able to make it all the way to the gate before realising his army had not followed him, leaving him disconnected from his rear guard.

The defenders saw this and would not let this opportunity go to waste, using their finest cavalry to break out onto the field from secret gaps in the walls. By the time the Rashur would realise what was happening it was too late and he would be trapped between a wall that was launching arrows down on him of riders that where destroying his royal guard. It was now only a matter of time until his death and he was reported to have been able to fell over 40 men by him self before finally falling, with his ferocity leading many saying he was blessed by the Erigi god of war, Ûlingĭrdû. His infant son, Adrahasis, would be crowned as the new Rashur with the northern republic being left in relative peace, with them and the republic of Urudik considering an alliance until Kisuran threatened to block all grain shipments north should that happen.

The war would be notable as it set the stage for several young and naïve Rashurs in Enkidu that where easily controlled by the cities rich merchants. The Republic of Katūmallef would grow to become a buffer state between the north and south, with their trade tariffs driving the somewhat similar Karuthen and Erigi peoples further apart.