First Civil War of Pertorogwaith

The FirstCivil War of Pertorogwaith took place after the Half-Trolls crowned their 3rd king, and played a major role in the early history of the volcanic peninsula, leaving the Half-Trolls in a very crippled state for many years to come.

## Background

Some time after the death of Glaerdir, first king of the Half-Trolls, a man named Scrubor took up the throne of Pertorogwaith and became its new ruler. Another Half-Troll known as Demon\_26, claimed the throne and was granted it by Scrubor. In secret, Prince Scrubor began organizing plans to build a moderately sized wall that would stretch all around the entire border of Pertorogwaith. His plan was to convert the Half-Trolls' home into a communist state and limit access in and out of the country.

Sensing that Demon would not approve of this plan, Scrubor also started setting up a heavily fortified fortress on the isle of Tol Torog known as Torogaur. To Scrubor's dismay, Demon discovered Scrubors treachery sooner than he had expected. Striking while the prince was still in preparation, Demon\_26 managed to seize the island fortress of Torogaur with no effort.

Infuriated, Demon\_26 banished Scrubor from Pertorogwaith never to return and tore down the small part of the communist wall that had already been built, reassuring the kings and queens of Middle Earth that Scrubor's plans would not continue. Scrubor, however, was able to flee into the jungle and founded the Thartorogrim.

## War

After building a jungle fortress, Scrubor signed an alliance with gestgeorge123, a powerful Morwaith Chieftain who was an enemy of Demon\_26. Both Demon and Scrubor had 2 loyalists and skirmishing broke out.

Scrubor launched an invasion expecting support from george, but he disappeared and without him the attack made little headway. Demon\_26 joined the New Empire of Harad in the spring of 2015 in order to shore up additional support, and although this would collapse, the Astrasi Empire took its place on July 31st 2015. This ensured the continuation of Haradric support and made the rebellion infeasible.

As the war fought on all of the supporters of Scrubor and Demon left the server while Demon began falling into inactivity. Despite this, the Astrasi continued fighting Scrubor on Demon's behalf, seeing Scrubor as disloyal to the Astrasi. On January 1st 2016, Scrubor finally abandoned his rebellion and joined Mordor after realizing there was no hope.

## Aftermath

The day after Scrubor ended his rebellion the Astrasi ousted the inactive Demon as leader and replaced him with Lord\_Gil\_Galad. This would begin a long period in the Half-Trolls history of the Astrasi constantly appointing new Half-Troll leaders but none being successful in building fortress or recruiting new players, leading to years of stagnation.

Overall the civil war was devastating for the Half-Trolls. Before the war had started the faction had boasted half a dozen players and had been preparing for large-scale construction, while nearly a year later the Half-Trolls found themselves with no players and no builds. While the war was ongoing their neighbors had been building themselves up, leaving the Half-Trolls as easily the weakest power in the region.