Reunification Wars

The Reunification Wars were a set of wars, spanning approximately 110 years, where the Bolinne fiefdom consolidated its hold over all of Red, through war, betrayal, alliances, and secret agreements, ending with the crowning of Iodam I, the King of Red in 940.

## The Second Unifier - Ruya

Ruya was a mostly unimportant figure for most of his life, but by chance, rose quickly to be the king of Bolinne through some quick scheming against his uncle, who hated him for his bastard lineage. In the Battle of Scarlet Ridge, he would win the throne from his granduncle and go onto become the leader of Bolinne, being coronated in 879. For the first decade or so of his reign, he decided to sit and wait. He built up his defenses, shored up his army's readiness, and cleaned up some minor disloyal states between Bolai and the Ankt River. His mission was simple, take Crimsongorod, the seat of the old Tribal Council, and the city of his dreams.

Ruya's grand campaign would start in 887, when he would march his crimson banners out of Bolai, to Augoxa, and their largest city, Crimsongorod. With enemy forces tied up in the north for 6 long, brutal years. Augoxa sent enough supplies before their seaport was blocked to last them the whole time. Tired enemy forces marched south, beleaguered from their long campaign against savages in the north, Augoxa armies were nearly unfit for a war. With Ruya able to keep his men's spirits high, they were a lethal fighting force that tore through the enemy's armies sent to relieve the siege. Crimsongorod fell on the 17th of June, 894, the white flag almost unfindable amongst the blinding hail of snow.

In 895, Augoxa signed a conditional surrender, forfeiting most of their southern and central lands, and barely holding onto a sliver of power in its northernmost province. For the rest of his reign until 903, Ruya focused on revitalizing the army after it suffered heavy losses in the war, as well as shoring up any vassals that even thought about rebelling after his army suffered a brutal amount of casualties.

## The Third Unifier - Iodam

In 903, Ruya retired, considering his work complete and wishing to retire to his farm. His son, Iodam, took up the reigns as the new King of Bolinne and quickly went to work on establishing Bolinne as a power that would not break under the stress of managing such a large domain.

### The Treaty Of The North

The Treaty Of The North was a treaty between the Bolinne Kingdom and the Jita/Northern Confederacy in 827. It outlined three main provisions: planning and executing what would become the War Of Rosaea against green colonial forces, and the subsequent subjugation of the Confederacy in exchange for untold amounts of wealth. The Jita nobility was rich and prosperous for the whole of the monarchical period from this deal, until Claps unseated their power as an illegitimate overstay of medieval balances of power.

### The War Of Rosaea

In 934, Bolinne and the Northern Confederacy collectively declared war on the Viridian Colony of Riyadia. Progress was slow at first, with green technology even on the colony nearly matching Red's. However by 937, it was clear the Unholy Alliance of the Confederacy and Bolinne would hold despite organizational and naval struggles. By 938, the green colony was blockaded and no longer receiving any of its meager supplies from the mainland, which marked the beginning of the end. In late 939, the green colony surrendered after 5 years of war, its forces pushed back to coastal towns along Red's eastern shores, and the people beginning to believe they should reunite with their Red brethren.

## The Kingdom Of Riyad

In 940, after the defeat of the green colonial forces, Red was truly united under the Bolinnian crown. In a spectacle filled with unrivaled pomp and circumstance, Iodam crowned himself the supreme ruler of Riyad, officially forming the Riyad Kingdom. The Reunification Wars however are considered to have ended in 948, after Iodam triumphantly held a procession in Crimsongorod, the Kingdom of Riyad had won its war against Iridium, winning battles on the opposite side of the Ankt, a cathartic slap in the face to their hated rivals across the Ankt, they were successfully able to carve out and hold client states for about a century.

## The Northern Confederacy

The Northern Confederacy was officially the Jita Confederacy, as the treaties allying the 5 countries were signed in the ancient city of Jita, a foremost city in the Rose region. Through trade disputes concerning the various northern rivers being pressed, they eventually controlled most of the territories held by the old Rose tribal areas. In the end however, they signed a secret treaty with Bolinne, where they helped with the unseating of green colonists in the War of Rosaea, along with being consolidated under the new Kingdom of Riyad. In exchange, they made out with a bountiful amount of good noble titles and wealth, allowed to prosper and mostly remain semi-autonomous in the northern regions of Red.