Kaxi

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**Kaxi** (/kɑdʒiː/), formerly **Kacíh**, and formerly in Uzolian, **Cachi**, is the capital of Ardenvarcs, with a population of 341,939.

## History

### The Norrkyllians, Plinuans and Erysians

The oldest recording of Kaxi comes from the Norrkyllian mapper Ansu Terrsen, who in 3987 BSD created a map that contained the city *ᚲᚨᛞᛁ (Kadi)*, placed on the near precise location of modern-day Kaxi. In a letter, the renowned raider Jan Vorku wrote of Kadi in 3970 BSD, describing its inhabitants as *"bear-creatures who wear primal clothing, walking through dirt streets beside tall, wooden structures, as if these Plinuans were the descendants of Bjarno himself.*" Kaxi became the front-line for the raiders as they descended the rivers of Central Artil, though ultimately their presence on the other side of Lake Migardum would be erased following the Long Plunder. These are recent records, and put Kaxi's founding almost six centuries behind where it was first thought to have been established.

Entering their imperial golden age, the Plinuans themselves would write about Kaxi, and an influx of settlers moved into the city, growing its status. The city was temporarily the capital of the Plinuan Kingdom from 2784 BSD to 2463 BSD.

The city was attacked during the Conquest of Plinua, with Erysian forces having destroyed much of the outer city. Under Erysian rule, Kaxi was rebuilt as the new capital, removing it from the de-industrialized south. The Plinuan State poured much of its funding into Kaxi, building up its industry and making it a powerhouse during following Erysian campaigns. Much of the city's most famous icons were built in this era, giving rise to the Erysian quarter, where much of the Erysian nobility would settle during the years after 1215 BSD.

The now industrialized and culturally rich city began to thrive, outperforming the rebellious and anti-Erysian south, forming one reason for the future Ardenvarcs-Plinua split, became a bastion for Plinuan-Erysian dialogue, with even many Plinuans entering high military and political positions, helping the rich city. The city began to take in tourists, with many Siralli, Giants and Equesians sailing across Lake Migardum to visit the Plinuan capital.

### War of the Three

As the war against the Tefliae-Sromaot Union State was beginning to fall towards Erysian defeat, the three major powers, the Cyorsian Empire, the Giant Empire and the Siralli Kingdom banded together to bring an end to the Kingdom of Erysia. Almost immediately, Kaxi was flooded with Erysian soldiers, the train station filled with armored trains to deliver weapons and provide safe exit from the city towards the front line.

Eventually, as Olivia fell, the Siralli Navy sent several ships across Lake Migardum to the shores of Plinua, where they landed thousands of troops who first liberated the south, and then came for Kaxi. Fighting began in the city with both local and Erysian forces clashing with Siralli Forces. The battles would last for days as more of Kaxi was destroyed during the battle. Giantish forces eventually joined up with their Siralli counterparts, finally winning the city after it had been encircled for multiple days, allowing the united forces to finally free the last Erysian-occupied parts of Central Ghyraj. With only some months left of the war, Kaxi's industry and cultural buildings had not suffered much from the fighting, with occupational forces being quick to rebuild the city to supply their soldiers with the captured train yard.

With the war's end, the victors drew up the new borders of central Ghyraj. While the area of Ardenvarcs would remain under Plinuan rule for 28 years after the restoration of independence, strong anti-monarchist and pro-republican groups sprang up around the northern parts of Plinua, and especially in Kaxi, whose new mayor and city council were members of the Plinuan Republic Front, a non-active militia gaining increasing popularity in the north, due to its larger and more prosperous infrastructure compared to the south of Plinua.

### The Revolution and the Betrayal

By 966 BSD, uprisings had begun around Kaxi. Members of the Plinuan Republic Front took arms against the Plinuan Army during a short skirmish that lasted only 24 hours, ending with a ceasefire agreement. The short skirmish inspired many in the Plinuan Republic Front to take up arms and begin uprisings across the entire region, even gaining the support of the staunchly anti-Plinuan Roqane Country. This would lead to the Qansöl Uprising, ending after almost six months of fighting and making an independent Plinuan Republic in the north. Kaxi would see more skirmishes fought in the streets, but not many as brutal as those to come as the Plinuan Republic Front would once more try its luck at capturing Kaxi.

On the 21st of March 957 BSD, the Plinuan Repubic Front had cut their way to the northern gates of Kaxi, already amassing another force on their way from Kanuotola, almost an hour away. With a heroic speech, the revolutionary Köpas Qarquura and his forces of almost 25,000 marched into Kaxi, engaging in battle with the Plinuan Royal Army. Kaxi saw two days of warfare, where the revolutionaries were almost done with conquering the city when their former Roqane allies had turned on both them and the monarchists. This betrayal prompted a sour alliance between both sides to defeat the Roqane before they would reach Kaxi, supplied secretly by Tefliae. While minor terrorist attacks were done in Kaxi, the city saw no further battle. Nearing the end of the five-month-long campaign, the king of Plinua, Graslaqa XVIII, ordered a total destruction of all the republican supplies and the total destruction of their forces, leading to the deaths of nearly 10,000 soldiers during the Day of the Scarred Soil. Soldiers were cut down in the streets of Kaxi.

The events would subsequently provide reasoning for more common folk to join the resistance, with the Plinuan Republican Front gaining upwards of 85,000 members, the ceasefire ended and, with the Roqane Country under their control, the Republc Front stormed through the north, eventually arriving at Kaxi, engaging in street-to-street combat. By 18th of October 957 BSD, Kaxi fell solely into the hands of the Republic Front. Under Siralli and Cyorsian pressure, both governments set in a new ceasefire that was to last for up to five years.

### Declaration of the Republic of Ardenvarcs

On the 22nd of May, 944 BSD, the Plinuan Republic had annexed the Aqasör territory, and the first president Iqöra Ansuokuju declared the Republic of Ardenvarcs in Kaxi. The orange-white-blue tricolor was raised from nearly every building in the city.