Azad Collapse

The Collapse of Azad was a brief war, never actually declared, between Azad and Aristios over the disputed land of Baumstadt. After Azad demolished the ancient city of Baumstadt which was a disputed territory between the two nations. This led to Aristios demanding reparations from Azad which they refused leading to war.

## Prelude

Azad and Aristios had had a rocky relationship as Azad, formerly known as the Aristii province of Astrya, declared independence during the civil war but never re-joined the Republic. During this time however the Western Peninsula of Azad was technically Aristios territory as the acting leader of Baumstadt did decide to join Aristios but no mapping guilds were ever notified.

## Tensions

After a long period of time Baumstadt went inactive and the claim was lost to admin intervention. Azad demolished such buildings.

The Aristii Government demanded 3 reparations the clauses being: Reparations for the damage to the city, Azad's withdrawal from the western Peninsula and for those who destroyed the city to go through Aristios's justice system. To this Azad said no. In preparation for the coming battle Aristios set up and manned the Fortress of Astrya Novum inside Azadian lands in preparation for potential conflict.

## The Battle of Astrya

Azad had sent a small patrol to investigate the new fotress set up. Both sides exchanged words, stating the land was under Aristii or Azadi control according to their allegiance. After the Azadi left but then came back to speak, Inverse chased away the squad (Pandsabotage, Super\_Abbe, DudelyFudder). So they regrouped grabbing the head soldier to go and attack the bandit and scout the land. A Pandsabotage (According to former Azad leadership, by accident) started the attack exclaiming "For Azad", which caused both sides to think it was a sign of aggression. The people in the fort splashed themselved with potions. Imviplayss fired an arrow and then the "battle" started. The squad was obliterated and ended in less of a battle and more of a massacre.

## Aftermath

After thus tragady some of the Azadi government left Stoneworks. The citizens of Azad were instructed to either stay in Aristios as a citizen of Astrya, evacuate the country, or take refuge in Isothonikos, which Abbadon had purchased. This left Aristios to reclaim the land and reform the Province of Astrya. As stated before, Aristios sold the capitol of Azad, Isothonikos to Abbadon for $100,000 as a place for Azadi refugees to go who did not want to join the Republic of Artistios. Aristios then gave the Azadi Island, Vulcan, back to the successor state to Ostartia: The Falholt Commonwealth.

After seeing the land lost and reformed into the province of Astrya (Aristios), the minister of war of Azad imviplayss, responsible for the raze of Baumstadt, created New Azad and announced plans to build a new state in the Ocean. Aristios declared this a terrorist group and made threats to any who harbored them. Due to this Abbadon was forced to make said group leave Isothonikos. Then they decided to go settle in the water near Aquaris who helped them build but the island then due to fear of an Aristios attack they demanded they leave. Currently the group still are in New Azad, as they are no longer considered terrorists, due the previous leader leaving them.

The members of New Azad that remained are now awaiting trial in Aristii custody.

### The Collapse of Abaddon

Three days after the conflict with Azad ended, the leadership of Abaddon collapsed (x-raying), effectively leaving the nation in anarchy. Anglunia, Aristios, and a Rathnirian called Juno, decided to establish negotiations to settle how the land would be divided. Aristios kept a majority of the land, including the bordering territories of Vento, and the former capital of Azad, Isothonikos, which was supposed to be bought by Abaddon.

After this conflict, the former Azad had been completely integrated into Aristios back.