Second Fühlgartian Civil War

Commanders| * Ulfric Luftschwert

***“**And they said the first civil war was chaotic...**”***
— Ulfric Luftschwert

The **Second Fühlgartian Civil War**, alternatively called the **Collapse of Fühlgart**, is an ongoing major conflict that is considered part of the Epilogue Wars. The conflict is fought by a vast amount of different paramilitary groups following a breakdown of centralised government, with many of these groups acting as the de-facto government in their controlled area. However, the four most important factions are the Republic and the Kingdom of Fühlgart, the Provisional Government, and the local chapter of the Grey Brotherhood.

## Context

Jan Luftschwert was the lifeblood of the Republic of Fühlgart. Unpopular, perhaps, but he was a natural statesman and knew how to keep powerful men with conflicting views in check. The Fühlgartian Senate, while often butting heads internally, kept in line under his watchful eye. However, when Jan Luftschwert died on the 4th of Greenburst, 1227 AW, all restraints on the senators were lifted.

Before Jan Luftschwert's body was even cold, the senators moved on each other, rallying militias to their side across Freistadt who began clashing in the streets for well over a month in what would become known as the Senatorial Struggle. With half the senators dead and the other half fleeing the city, Ulfric Luftschwert, Jan's younger brother and the ruler of the Stratocracy of Kirchenstau, occupied the city. He named himself the new Head of the Republic and butchered the rogue militias across Freistadt. The old senators were stripped of their titles and charged with high treason, as Ulfric staffed the senate with his heavily militaristic allies and friends.

Just as things began to quiet down, Albert Schmied, the extremely popular general of the Second Army, occupied his hometown of Amberg and declared the Amberg Defense Army to be born. Multiple Republican armies failed to dislodge him, yet all failed. Before long, Ulfric gave up, letting Schmied claim his fiefdom. However, the image of a Republic unable to deal with an upstart rebellion spread across Fühlgart, and throughout the latter half of 1227 AW, rebellions began appearing in every corner of the nation.

With the military completely overwhelmed, Ulfric Luftschwert recalled almost every last Fühlgartian soldier deployed in its allies and protectorates to defend the fatherland, leaving many of these weak and unstable nations defenceless to foreign invasions and internal chaos. Many of these armies were filled with demotivated and oftentimes resentful conscripts who had been forced to serve. Ultimately, the Sixth, Ninth and Twenty-First Armies got together and defected in their entirety, proclaiming the Provisional Government of Fühlgart in Torstadt on the 40th of Frostfade, 1228 AW. This proclamation is widely accepted to be the official start of the Second Fühlgartian Civil War.

Over the coming months, the Republic would lose most of its de jure land to warring rebel and paramilitary groups, restricting the territory they truly controlled to some major cities and parts of the western coastline. Mass defection and desertion, economic collapse, and political isolation even allowed the Monarchist exiles under Erik von Kalzberg-Mitthel to invade, attacking Freistadt and Neuesfeld directly. While Freistadt held on, Neuesfeld did not. The latter city now serves as the temporary capital of the Kingdom of Fühlgart, which seeks to reclaim the entire country.

## Belligerents

**Pro-Republican Forces**

*Main Article: Republicans*

* **Republic of Fühlgart**
* Blades of the Republic
* Citizen's Army of Fühlgart
* Eastern Government of Fühlgart
* Fühlgartian Loyalist Movement
* Fühlgartian Patriotic Resistance
* Holy Brotherhood of Syarus
* Independent Republican Front
* Purple Army of Fühlgart
* Republican Volunteer Legion
* Southern Republican Alliance

**Pro-Monarchist Forces**

*Main Article: Monarchists*

* **Kingdom of Fühlgart**
* Fühlgartian Kingsmen
* Füsgar Monarchist Front
* Kalzberg Vanguard Group
* Knights of the New Dawn
* Luftstadt Monarchist Resistance
* Order of the Unyielding
* Second Alliance of Fühlgart
* Sons of the Crown
* Vachstadt-Fühlgart Cooperative Army

**Pro-Enselonde Front for Democracy Forces**

*Main Article: Enselonde Front for Democracy*

* **Provisional Government of Fühlgart**
* Army for the Liberation of Fühlgart
* Azure Sky Movement
* Democratic Front of Fühlgart
* Kiefmal Republic
* Northern Liberation Front
* People's Militia of Fühlgart
* Popular Militia of Fühlgart
* Senatorial Republican Front of Fühlgart

**Pro-Grey Temple Forces**

*Main Article: Grey Temple*

* **Grey Brotherhood of Fühlgart**
* Fühlgartian Knights of the One
* Grey Temple of Risslau
	+ Grey Knights of Risslau
* Krighal Front of Fühlgart

**Independent**

* Alliance of Three Duchies
* Amberg Defense Army
* Anti-Wyrsian Inquisition
* Freehold Movement of Fühlgart
* Rotland Interventionalist Front

## Battles

### 1228 AW

* Battle of Freistadt - Republican Victory
* Battle of Neuesfeld - Monarchist Victory