Kingdom Civil War

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The Kingdom Civil War is a conflict that took place in the Kingdom of Diorelle. It was a proxy power-struggle between the Theocracy and the Commerce Nation, but ended with the Kingdom having a big house cleaning of corrupt nobles, and becoming free of the influence of both.

## Factions in the Civil War

The civil war was a power struggle between three main factions:r:

* The Crown. With King Diorelle fallen ill, his younger brother Regent Musjix du Diorelle led the faction.
* The Church Faction, headed by the First Prince Guvadé du Diorelle, and backed by the Theocracy and nobles close to the Church.
	+ The Third Division of the Kingdom Army, plus personal troops of nobles of the Church Faction, composed the main forces of the faction.
* The Second Prince Kuzaryusvery Di Diorelle, backed by the Commerce Nation.
	+ The Second Division of the Kingdom Army with about 20,000 troops defended the capital with the Second Prince in charge.

Other notable forces:

* The First Division of the Kingdom Army - they protected the borders of the Kingdom during the conflict, and were not directly involved in the civil war.
* Omui - Supported Haruka the Dungeon Killer (aka the Black-Haired Strategist), which merged with Regent Musjix' Crown faction
* Haruka and his companions - originally an independent force, they merged with Regent Musjix' Crown faction later

## Background

### Interest over Spellstone

Omui, a domain of the Kingdom of Diorelle, is the world's largest producer of Spellstones. It is also the first line of defense against the Demonic Forest and the forward bastion against the Ultimate Dungeon.

The fiefdom of Nallogi is Omui's sole neighbor, originally set up as to support and supply Omui. However, in recent years Lord Nallogi had been taking advantage of its geographical position to choke Omui off -- diverting supplies meant for Omui, jacking up prices and taxes so that Omui became impoervished and has to sell its spellstones for cheap. Lord Nallogi had ambitions to completely take over Omui himself, and had launched assassination attempts on Lord Omui and his family before.

The Theocracy has a monopoly on the processing of spellstones into magic items. Many nobles of the Kingdom are in the pockets of the Theocracy to export spellstones at dirt cheap prices.

The Commerce Nation has been mostly left out of the game in terms of the spellstone trade and is at odds with the Theocracy.

### Slave Trade

The Theocracy and the Commerce Nation both support the Slave Trade. The Commerce Nation in particular actively hunts elves and beastmen to sell as slave.

The Kingdom, on the other hand, only has contract-based time-limited slavery and criminal-punishment slavery. The Kingdom has been an ally to the Beastman Country, its neighbor. The Commerce Nation's profitability would greatly increase if it could influence the Kingdom to change its policy on the slave trade.

## Prelude

When news of the death of the Ultimate Dungeon reached Lord Nallogi, he became concerned and interested in the Dungeon Killer. The aftermath of his conflict with the Dungeon Killer resulted in a new dungeon appearing between Nallogi and Omui, cutting off Omui into isolation.

The First Prince's faction accused Lord Omui of treason, and demanded his head and the treasure of The Ultimate Dungeon be turned over to the Kingdom and the Church, and that Omui to provide spellstones for practically free.

King Diorelle had been unconscious with a sickness for a while. His brother, Regent Musjix, tried to appease the First Prince's faction and to keep the kingdom together, by at least getting Lord Omui to turn over the Dungeon Killer and the treasure of the Ultimate Dungeon. He was ready to offer his own head to Lord Omui as an exchange.

## Key events of the Civil War

### Assault outside Nallogi

On Day 62, mercenary band of about 100 riders belonging to the Theocracy discovered Regent Musjix's entourage to Omui and attacked. This was the first direct military conflict, with the Church Faction making a move against the Crown.

Lightly armed, Musjix raced towards Omui, and came across the Dungeon Killer. The Dungeon Killer eliminated the mercenary band.

## Long term consequences

1. ↑ Web Novel Part 248
2. ↑ A bug in the web novel causes all dates after Day 48 to be one less than the actual date. The date written here is the actual date instead of the web novel date.