Bujanski War of Independence

The **Bujanski War of Independence** was a war that broke out in the island nation of Bujan, marking the end of Wannaenid rule.

## Terminology

### Positive, pro-Bujanski, pro-independence

* Bujanski Revolution
	+ Terran languages: "Buyanski Revolution"; Буянская революция/Bujanskaja Revoljutsija
* "the rebellion"
* "the revolution"
	+ Mostly used as a shorthand in Bujan.
* Liberation of Bujan
* Purification of Bujan
* The Great Morning
* The Dawnbreak
* The Great Daybreak
* The Clouds Scatter
* The Starrise
	+ The colonial and Wannaenid leaders suffered various nightmares, including eyes glaring at them among the stars, and light leaving Wannaenid cities to magically rebuild the ruined colonies. Some of the revolutionaries also saw those visions, but they instead were omens for a brighter future.
* The Rebirth
* When the Storks Fly Home (poetic, Rukanian)
	+ Bujanski soldiers who completed their training in Rukania to liberate their homeland were called "little storks". Each soldier was given a stork feather to remind them of their upbringing in Rukania.
* Zvilnenja (official, Rukanian)
	+ Short form for "Zvil'nennja Bujana", "Liberation of Bujan". This was the official term used by the knightly orders that aided the revolution, and poetically used by the revolutionaries.

### Negative, pro-Wannaenid, "colonial", "imperial"

* Fall of Zavtrana
* The Great Backlash
* The Great Tantrum, "great pettiness" - used by Qyuvians and Serpentians
	+ These names referred to Internet offenses, like "blocks", "bans", and rudeness being reasons for the Bujanski to punish Internet users.
* The Coming Night
* Nightfall
* The Collapse
* The Block War, The Ban War, War on Blocks, War on Blockers, War on the Internet, War on Trolls, The Internet War - for the massacres of Internet users in central Bujan over rude behaviour. Punishment of Internet offenders and propagandists was one of the factors that led to the rebellion's spread.
* The Twilight
* The Cage of Doors - mocking name used by Bujanski revolutionaries
	+ In mockery of the Maeranoi belief that "for every door that closes, a new one opens", referring to new opportunities to escape from the pain of guilt and responsibility.
	+ The Bujanski subvert this idiom by claiming that they are "shutting down every door, so the Maeranoi cannot escape their own wrongdoing."
* War on Truth - Terran name for the revolution because the revolutionaries killed propagandists and supporters of Terran beliefs
* War on Freedom - Because the Bujanski killed various people for supposedly "Terran" behaviours, ranging from internet trolling to whataboutism.
* War on Fandom - Notorious for rebels, especially death gang members, murdering fans of fictional media accused of treason or war against the native people.
* War on Humanity, War on Humanness - For various attempts to eliminate supposed "human" behaviours and characteristics, such as bullying, trolling, mischief, wanting to be left alone, and even youth; all because they were considered to be "Terran".

## Sovereignty Front

"*Deliver our enemies to us, that we **will** execute them for murdering the innocent!*" - a common prayer to Perun among the revolutionaries.

These were the thirty-three major armies that formed an alliance to overthrow the Wannaenids and Terrans who nearly destroyed their homeland.

They eventually became several elite regiments in the Royal Armed Forces.

1. The King's Men - Bujanski Slavic majority. They were the army that Dostagir led, and after he was chosen as the unifying leader of their revolution, this army became his elite soldiers.
2. The Free North - Terrans who rebelled against Wannaenid rule. Most Terrans who were protected by the revolutionaries, or defected to them, ended up there.
3. The Broken Tower - Ontemazei slave rebellion, mostly Jarilo-worshippers
4. Hangman's Tree - Ontemazei slave rebellion, mostly Perun-worshippers
5. Republic of Nasarpollo - Arnadjanai slave rebellion
6. Children of Justice - Dharmic revolt, mostly Ontemazei
7. Sons of Sarmelon - Burrow City of Zremandil
8. Azure Sharks - Wonao rebellion
9. Banshees - Heronoi slave rebellion
10. Rybary ("Fisherfolk"), "Merpeople" - Sagolin slave rebellion
11. Virimvon - the town of Virimvon and its allies. Mostly Wonao, but also made of Bujanski and hundreds (if not thousands) of Terran defectors.

Members of the revolution, as opposed to death gangers ("central Bujan"), were known as "Aetkja", from the term "Tommy Atkins", soldiers from the Terran country of Britain. The "Victorian" uniforms used by Bujanski revolutionaries" were also known as "aetkinka".

### Allies of the revolutionaries

Among the allies in the Zvestarid Coalition, four nations were the revolutionaries' biggest supporters: Rukania, Visenga, Marnos, and Daleskarnia. While Rukania was the most well-known, they mostly intervened in the south and west. The other three were more active in the north and east.

Some reinforcements were from Zvestarid exiles who were sheltered in Sevraeja.

Various free Wonao nations and the Kingdom of Hiriwa were also involved in the war to liberate Bujan, as they were also members of the Zvestarid Coalition.

## The enemies

They were known as the Four Powers for being the strongest powers when Bujan fell to Wannaenid conquest.

1. Tyrskans
2. Church of Q
3. Salvationist Party
4. Wannaenid colonial authorities

### Later factions

1. Serpentians
2. Maizefolk
3. Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta

## Factors

The war was motivated by several things: abuse by Terrans and Wannaenids, mass killings by colonials, forced adoption of colonial cultures, and seeking revenge against anyone seen as Terran or colonial.

A fifth factor would be a power struggle between the Qyuvian and Tyrskan authorities, and the Serpentians and Maizefolk, against the Salvationist Party and eventually the Wannaenid overlords.

Notoriously, a sixth factor had spread the rebellion throughout Bujan. Many people joined the rebellion because they wanted to use the chaos to kill everyone who angered or offended them. Many of their victims tended to be Internet users, all collectively known as "bloky" after their habit of shunning people over mistakes and criticism.

Because many bloky were fans of the show Broken Plates, it resulted in the rebellion using the show negatively to motivate rebels to fight harder, to find and kill every single offender. In a sense, the ancient TV show was one of the causes and factors of the rebellion.

## Outcasts

The alliance of revolutionaries was a better alternative to the death gangs of central Bujan. Although both of them fought for an independent Bujan from Terran and Wannaenid rule, the revolutionaries were much more preferred.

While the death gangs murdered and killed people over trivial offenses, the revolutionaries welcomed them into their protection. With the arrival of the Zvestarid coalition and the Rukanian knighthoods, more and more Terrans started joining the alliance, because living conditions there were much better and forgiving than under their own dysfunctional rulers or the Wannaenids. Indeed, many of them were outcasts and refugees, marginalised by Terran-Wannaenid society into degrading conditions.

### Initiation

In order to enter the alliance and be a member, or even to live under the protection of a settlement controlled by the alliance, every refugee was sent to a camp where their deeds were investigated. Those who committed worse crimes were executed, while the majority of them were permitted, after making amends for a number of offenses they committed.

### Abandonment of grudges

The revolutionaries wanted to create a society free from grudges, so members who wanted to join also had to renounce their past grudges. The chaotic situation in the rest of Bujan made the revolution more appealing, as more people wanted to "reconcile" with people in the past in order to survive.

The avoidance of grudges also extended to online blocks and bans, so initiates were also ordered to tell officers who they blocked online. They were required to abandon their blocks and bans, considered as "grudges", unless the people they blocked or banned had committed worse crimes such as harrassment or extremism. Those who remained blocked were even banned from joining the revolution, but hunted down as its enemies.

Whenever possible, the people whom initiates had unblocked or unbanned were also invited to join the revolution. There, they were able not only to have the people who hurt them apologise to them, but to also be protected by the revolutionaries. These policies also led to more people contacting and joining the revolution, as former enemies became lifelong friends.

Some of those who took up the invitations, to join the revolution and reconcile with people whom they blocked (or blocked them), claimed that they were surprised, or even glad, that their "enemies" were inspired by them. They even thanked them for motivating them to be better.

## Events

* Cheated by the Tyrskan and Qyuvian authorities, many frustrated, impoverised Terran militants and exiles formed the Serpents. Some Bujanski also joined the Serpents, hoping for a better life, but over time, the Serpents become more radicalised, going as far as calling for the extermination of even the native peoples of Bujan as "regressives".
	+ The Serpents' hatred of other Terrans was from their mistreatment, and they later turned their hatred towards Bujanski people for the death gangs. They were notorious for using historical revolts to justify their extermination of Bujanski people; resulting in the Maeranoi being among the most hated of all Terrans in Bujan.
* Angered by the Irajonian Deportations, the local Vozonids of the Wannaenid colonies began to revolt and declare independence. Irajon burned many Wannaenid symbols and raised Sarmelonid banners.

### 1879

* May 9, 1879 - The cities of Zremandil (a Burrow-city in Bujan) and Nasarpollo declare independence.
* May 13, 1879 - The slave-slum of Nasarpollo, home to tormented Arnadjanai slaves, slaughtered every soldier in the Wannaenid garrison. With no women, youths, or children with the soldiers, the slaves had less pity for the Wannaenids, killing every last troop and hired killer who was placed there to exterminate the slaves.

### 1879-1890 AT

* June 4, 1879 - Seven revolts broke out in the northern coast. The first four were successful revolts that killed off most of the authorities' forces, using devices and weaponry that made the revolutionaries quick enough to slaughter as many soldiers as they found. The third revolt was the Liberation of Virimvon, now known as Virimvon-na-Taeglovu, when the blue flag of modern Bujan was shown in public for the first time.
* Three of the northern revolts were local Terran protestors, who were upset with growing poverty and brutal treatment by the authorities. They became the Free North, an alliance of Terrans who supported the Bujanski independence movement.
	+ At the same time as the second revolt, a pastor was studying a Terran religious book, the "Biblija". He went into depression as he noticed that most of the practices of the Wannaenid rulers were against his God's teachings. He started the last of three revolts by Terrans, denouncing the Wannaenids and their vassals as "a regime of lies". That pastor eventually joined the alliance of thirty-three parties that fought for Bujanski independence.
* March 12-14, 1882 - The death gangs, local Bujanski militants, have taken over several towns in the centre-west. They began executing and murdering Terrans accused of posting hateful comments online.
	+ It was ultimately several people who were the victims of Terran bullies, so whatever they did - rude comments and blocking over trivial reasons - became associated with those bullies.
	+ Out of the nine bullies, seven of them were killed by the death gangs. The eighth was arrested and killed on Black July, and the ninth was more fortunate as he agreed to apologise to all of his victims. He was also featured in an autobiography that described his motives, mainly being taught that he was supposed to rule everything as a Tyrskan.
	+ The first person to be killed for blocking people online was an artist of Terran descent.
	+ Public anger at mistreatment by Terrans and online trolls led to the Bujanski seeking to ban their attitudes and behaviour in the towns they controlled. Initially, people arrested for being rude or doing online crimes were tortured and killed, out of anger against them for their association with their abusers.
* March 15-18, 1882 - Some Bujanski hired the death gangs to murder nearly anyone who simply offended them.
	+ In their rage and hatred, nearly anyone suspected of being rude online was put to death. A large number of their victims were accused of blocking, harrassing, and banning other users for petty reasons.
* March-May 1882 - Thirty-three parties emerged and formed an alliance, attempting to restore the Kingdom of Zvesta. Even the majority of the local Wannaenids started fighting alongside and for the Irajonians, as they felt sorry for the many atrocities done to anger the gods of Vozolaz.
	+ The main reason for their alliance was a fear that the death gangs will kill more innocent Bujanski lives. They also started a policy to take in repentant or defecting Terrans, which worsened relations with the death gangs.
	+ Inspired by the successes at Zremandil, Nasarpollo, and the north, the Arnadjanai, Ontemazei, and Heronoi slaves rebelled. Many of them joined local resistance movements founded by Bujanski Slav and Wonao members.
	+ The Sagolins and Tuksharans of the northeast overthrew Wannaenid and Terran governors, aided by other revolutionaries. They forced the local Terrans to obey their laws and undergo penance, but most of them fled out of fear that they would be killed. A few Terrans who remained agreed and joined the revolts.
	+ All the groups began to pledge an oath to the Gods to renounce any behaviour or attitude that was Terran. Any who broke the oath was cursed or killed as a traitor.
	+ The alliance has also opposed the death gangs, and fought back against raids and attempted killings. In return, the targeted offenders under the rebels' protection were ordered to undo their crimes - so for instance, they had to apologise to people whom they insulted or blocked online.
	+ The Great Boycott is enacted as law in rebel-held areas, punishing reckless blockers by ostracising them from social life.
* In their rage and hatred of the Terrans, the Bujanski start killing various hooligans and online trolls. Fights sometimes break out, but the Bujanski's advanced technology allow them to evade the Terran gangs and patrols. Already thousands of Terrans were killed by the assassins and militants, but much more Terrans were killed fighting each other over fanatical causes and petty tantrums.
* The Salvationist Party declared war on the revolutionaries, attempting to forcibly assimilate the Bujanski people to Terran culture. The Party's attempts to make the churches mandatory, to please their Terran supporters, made the Bujanski hate them as traitors.
	+ The Free North, a small federation of cities at the northeastern coast, banned the Salvationist Party and its two churches. Zremandil followed three days later.

### 1891

* A certain noble from Zvesta's remaining lunar territories arrives to aid the rebellions. One by one, the rebellions choose him as the unifying figurehead for their new nation, on the basis that he was a direct descendant of the last ruler of Zvesta.
	+ This man, Dostagir, also ordered his people not to kill the Tyrskans, but to imprison them. Only those who committed tortures were harshly punished, and any murderers were immediately killed.
* October 16 - Dostagir is crowned as King of Bujan.
	+ The date also happened to coincide with a saintly day related to a Terran soldier known as Lonhyn. Lonhyn once tortured a prisoner, but repented and followed the prisoner's teachings.
	+ Some people claimed that the date may had been chosen as a quiet tribute to the Terran members of the rebellion. It also represented Dostagir as one who will help the Terrans earn forgiveness from the Bujanski, saving them from destruction.
* October 22 - One of Dostagir's brothers was arrested by the revolutionaries and brought to him. Dostagir orders that his brother is to be sentenced to beheading for committing terrorism and massacres for a fascist group that he led. The other members of that group were slaughtered, with any prisoners in the revolutionaries' hands beheaded.
* October 31 - Dostagir declares the Deucalion Amnesty, to rescue many Terrans and civilians from the growing violence.
	+ Days after the Amnesty was declared, the death gangs declared war on his revolutionary front for refusal to murder Terrans.
* November 8 - The fans of the show Broken Plates meet with King Dostagir and members of the royal government in Virimvon-na-Taeglovu. They noticed that the Bujanski people sought to kill every fan of the show as traitors against the revolution, so they wanted to prove that they are not a threat to the paranoid people of Bujan.
	+ The fans' representatives, dressed as national leaders, sign a treaty declaring peace with Bujan, and surrendering themselves as subjects of the Bujanski monarchy. They bow to the government's leaders and apologise to the entire country for every offense by the whole fandom.
* In honour of him, the rebellions adopted the symbols of an older kingdom, Bujan, from its name to one of its old flags, to celebrate a new Sarmelonised state in the modern world.
	+ "*Porashon used to boast that they are 'the last Sarmelonids'. Now that we are breaking our oppressors apart, the Domain of Mother Kali's Children is not alone anymore. Now it has three new brothers: Josol, and now Irajon and Bujan - us!*"
	+ "*But Turodaron speaks a Sarmelonid language, doesn't it? And Siangwaan also lives like a Sarmelonid, even more so than Josol!*"
	+ "*That makes us six, then!*"
* The people of the Salvationist-held city of Djaripol revolted against their rulers, protesting against cronyism and hoarding.
* November 8 - At several points in western Bujan, Rukanian-trained regiments have arrived to assist local resistance fronts.
	+ Due to their chivalry, they allowed Terrans who surrendered or defected to join their ranks. The Rukanian knights also tore down publicly-mounted corpses and gave "innocents" proper cremations, even though the bodies were Terran. This angered some Bujanski guerillas, who turned against their liberators just to murder the repentant Terrans.
	+ Bujanski who returned from Rukania as knights were known as "razomniki", after one notable word in Rukanian, "razom", that they used to call "get together".
* November 11 - The Wannaenid authorities attempted a blackout to cut off the islands' power supplies and turn the rebellions against each other. Instead, in the darkness, the rebellions in Bujan and Irajon successfully seized control of their entire islands, overthrowing the Wannaenid authorities in a single night.
	+ The Free North was aided by more rebellions formed by alliances of Bujanski, Wonaos, liberated slaves, and Terran defectors. All Terran defectors who remained in those victorious groups were spared from the purges, allowed to keep their homes and gain citizenship sooner.
	+ Some of those defectors later took part in the Black July purges, while others joined the anti-purge groups to protect other Terrans. The anti-purge members won out, seeking to help victims integrate themselves and heal as new Bujanski citizens.
* November 11 - The inhabitants of Djaripol and other eastern towns set up portals to allow the revolutionaries to help them overthrow the Salvationists. Nearly all the Terrans there joined the revolution to support the natives, becoming members of the Free North.
* December 1891-June 1892 - Further attacks were launched by the Wannaenid rulers and their Tyrskan lackeys, only to be ultimately defeated.
	+ The revolutionaries were aided by the old allies of Zvesta: Rukania, Visenga, Marnos, and Daleskarnia. Aside from the Zvestarid exiles, these four nations sent their forces and supplies to help the revolutionaries defeat the Wannaenids. Many of them formed the Zvestarid Coalition in seeking to weaken the Wannaenids and stop them from becoming a major global threat.
* The Terrans are divided into five factions, splintering as more and more Terrans were brought into the bloodbath:
	+ Tyrskan Imperials, who sought to annex Bujan as Zavtrana Province
	+ Qyuvians Imperials, who sought to annex Bujan as the Diocese of Buyan
	+ Suppressors (or "Sycophants"), who remained loyal to the Wannaenid authorities
	+ Partyliners, Terrans who chose loyalty to the Salvationist Party.
	+ Maizefolk, demon-worshipping rebellion of Qyuvians
* December 11 - The nearby nation of Kovastoi has a revolution. Many of the peasants were sad and angry that so many of their people were gone, and executions were everywhere, so they revolted in a desperate attempt to survive. The new government of Kovastoi sends delegates by portal to the Bujanski revolutionaries, offering so much gold, plunder, and an apology to Bujan. The delegates bow to the revolutionaries, begging for forgiveness, and they were sent home with an agreement to support the revolution.
	+ The leader of the revolution is crowned as King of Kovastoi, declaring an end to his country's status as an ethnostate. He declares peace with Bujan, three years of mourning, and war against the Wannaenid Empire and its puppets.
	+ The Kovastoi divert their portals to Tyrska's enemies, cursing their former Motherland for its militaristic attitude. They invite the Sondorians and the Zvestarid Coalition to support the revolts.
* January 1 - The Salvationist Party's leaders became more envious of the Tyrskan aristocracy, that some of its leaders denounced the puppet kings. For that, the Party was stripped of its authority, beginning a civil war that greatly aided the revolutionaries from the Wannaenids' own chaos.
* January 14-23 - The death gangs dominate central Bujan, dragging hundreds of Terrans and Salvationist civilians to be massacred. Internet bans were imposed in some settlements, to prevent more cybercrimes.
	+ Eyewitnesses from those dark days were able to see the contrast between areas controlled by the death gangs and the alliance, from distant settlements to satellite images. Alliance-held areas were better-built, so they were brighter; while death gang-held areas were poorer and darker.
* February 23 - Plan T, a vessel that would had exterminated the archipelagoes with ancient diseases and pathogens, was intercepted and purged. With the defeat of Plan T's vessel, the rebellions quickly sweep out the last Wannaenid troops out of the island.
	+ The Tyrskans, Salvationists, and Maeranoi realise - too late - that they are also the targets of Plan T. They were among the first victims.
	+ More victims of Plan T's diseases were found among the death gangs.
* February 27 - Mikhail, an officer in the Wannaenid army, murdered Dmitri for being unable to carry out his plan to kill all Bujanski. He was also killed by Chraevoka, who wore his organs.
* The Battle of the Royal Palace - Chraevoka and her Slaughterers, the Yatani, were killed at the Throne Room, burned to ashes.
* March 9 - A large force of Makkadalish and Coalition soldiers lands on Shanchazorra, the southernmost city in mainland Bujan. The city welcomes them and joins their march northwards to purge every remaining Terran military unit.
	+ As the Coalition forces move northward, they were horrified that the resistance also committed war crimes. They especially hunted not only for "trolls" and cyberwarriors, but also *any* Internet user of Terran descent. Some resistance members joined the death gangs to exterminate every Terran, and when they tried to destroy the Terran defectors and freed slaves, those death gangs were defeated and slain.
* March 11 - More Bujanski and Wonaos returned from Visenga to liberate the eastern coast.
	+ Many Visengan Bujanski also fought in Baido, taking orders from the Royal Army to reestablish the Kingdom of Baido. Whether those auxiliaries died in battle or lived to rebuild the liberated kingdom; all of them were gradually forgiven for erasing their ancestors' sin of abandoning Baido to Wannaenid conquest.
* March 13 - Battle of Arkjensan - the cannibals of the ruined city are defeated and exterminated, with some Terran defectors to the Bujanski taking part in the executions.
* The death gangs were defeated, one by one, by the more-advanced armies of the Coalition.
* The Wannaenids send hundreds of mercenaries and regular soldiers in desperate expeditions. They and their Salvationist and Terran lackeys build more portals, but less and less soldiers are summoned to reinforce their losing numbers.
* March 21 - Battle of Mahapuri - The mutants in Marnosyn expeditionary forces and the Lampguard aid the Bujanski in defeating the superhuman Wannaenid soldiers.
* More Salvationist militias are killed by other Terrans or each other. The few survivors either surrender or are jailed by the triumphant revolutionaries. The last Wannaenid remnants still exist in Razhno Province in the northeast.

### 1892/2692

* June 12 - Sanctification of Aikurigil Hill. The Bujanski destroy a cult of demon-worshipping terrorists. A Dharmic temple is built on the hill.
* June 19 - The last Bujanski death gang, the Vipers, was exterminated by the triumphant Coalition armies.
* June 22 - The last Salvationist rulers destroy themselves and hundreds of Wannaenids by bombing their own headquarters. The remaining Wannaenids left in their boats back to their homeland, and some of their ships were incinerated by the energy barrier.

### June 1892/2692

* June 28 - With the last Wannaenid troops expelled and killed, the Kingdom of Bujan gains its independence from the Wannaenid Empire.
	+ The exact time of independence was around 10:02 AM, at the exact time of the fall of the last Zvestarid forces centuries ago.
* King Dostagir, the leader elected by the rebellions, is crowned as the first King of Bujan.
* The peoples of Bujan bestow the new King several gifts.
	+ From the Bujanski, his own folk: an axe for the just authority of Perun and Mokosh.
	+ From the Wonaos, the natives: a cloak for the guidance of the Gods.
	+ From the Vozonids, the former aristocracy: a crown of spinels and emeralds, for the blessings of Heaven.
	+ From the Arnadjanai, some of the freed slaves: a bow and filled quiver, for the execution of his own duties as King.
	+ From the Ontemazei, more of the freed slaves: a rājyābhiṣeka, to consecrate the King to the Gods, turning him into an instrument of Heaven for the good of Bujan.
	+ From the Tuksharans, a golden cogwheel for the technology of their nation.
	+ From the Sagolins, a fishing net for the traditions of Bujan.
	+ From the un-Terrans of the Free North, a paper lantern for the freedom and rebirth of their homeland.
* The rulers of Bujan's allies attend the coronation. They later usher the reopening of their nation's embassies, and the first of their ships arriving in Bujan's ports.
	+ King Izor III of Rukania, Emperor Ikokata of Pinoguni, President Semiradno of Sevraeja, President Kanezarjo of Porashon, President Ye Yonglai of Siangwaan, and President Pragaryrjos of Marnos.
	+ When King Izor was present, the knights who were trained in Izor's country bowed to him as their symbolic teacher. Many others saluted him as Bujan's greatest ally.
* All slaves, including Arnadjanai, Ontemazei, and Heronoi, are immediately granted citizenship. Some others had chosen to be taken back to their homelands, where they were quickly naturalised as new citizens.
	+ At first, the Ontemazei were afraid, bowing before the King and other Bujanski and pleading for forgiveness for the evil deeds of the Kalokei. All of them were consecrated to various gods in successive ceremonies, purifying them from their sins and allowing them to begin new lives as citizens of Bujan.
	+ A large number of Terrans who joined the Bujanski resistance and the Free North were former slaves. Upon independence, all of the former slaves were immediately granted Bujanski citizenships. Their rejection and hatred of Terran crimes convinced the Bujanski to allow them to skip penance and even be counted as Bujanski!
* The remaining Tyrskans, many of which had not killed even a single life, were initially suggested to be detained into a single city behind a wall of toughened glass, where they will be asked for the reasons for their hatred of Bujan's people. The King was given another suggestion by the Ontemazei, that the Tyrskans should learn to live as commoners, so they will teach the Tyrskans to abandon their supremacist views. The King accepts this proposal, and the Tyrskans mostly kept their homes and citizenship in exchange for their aristocratic privileges.
* As disgusted and sad as they are, the Tyrskans have no other choice but to accept. They eventually found out that their new neighbours are more merciful than they expected, so they apologised and tried to compensate for their crimes against Bujan.
* The Maeranoi, who were more hostile to the Bujanski, were threatened with death, but the King also refused to kill those who surrendered or did not fight. They were also relocated, and subjected to the same probation-conditions as the Tyrskans.

## Black July

See also: July 1892

"Black July" was the name given towards the dark period just after independence. Internationally, this purge and war are known as the Bujanski Civil War, or the Black Rose Month, after the symbol used by militias who protected Terrans from being killed by mobs.

A nationwide period of mourning was announced just after martial law, to stop any remaining Terrans from ever forming rebel groups to overthrow the restored monarchy. In their hate and wrath, many Bujanski formed the Anti-Terran Action, militant groups who killed off hundreds of Terrans to punish their entire people for their historical crimes. The remnants of the death gangs became the leaders of the ATA's squads.

Most of the victims killed by the mobs were online users, punished for issuing comments threatening Bujanski people or expressing hateful attitudes; and a portion of them were simply among the rudest people in the island kingdom. It was similar to the killings of Internet users during the war of independence, but at a nationwide scale.

As the ATA began killing other Bujanski and repentant Terrans for mistakenly committing Terran crimes, other groups were formed to stop the mobs. One of them was the Black Roses, representing mourning for the ATA destroying Bujan. Others were Ontemazei, who pitied the frightened Terrans of Bujan for their torment, and fought against the mobs.

The ATA was defeated, ending martial law and the period of mourning. However, distrust of the Terrans of Bujan continued up to the middle of December. Exhibitions were held to allow the Terrans of Bujan to explain themselves and apologise for all of their historical crimes.

Nearly all surviving Terrans by that time underwent vows to "do penance". That is, to deradicalise themselves, learn to live in Bujanski society and norms, and to take part in reconstruction and repairing work in order to achieve citizenship. Although some of the ATA's members were Terrans of the Free North; the rest of the Free North and many Ontemazei were willing to help Terrans in Bujan become citizens of the kingdom.

## Aftermath

Although the Bujanski Revolution had indeed stopped abusive conditions for the people of Bujan, it also unleashed many horrors moulded by trauma and panic. It is celebrated, yet the evils that plagued the revolution were taught every day, every year, to ensure the Bujanski of today will never truly return to such a bleak era.

The war to free Bujan from oppression is celebrated every year as Vidovdan or Svjetodan, as it happened to fall on the same day as Svetovid's holy day. At the same time, the prevailing opponents of the Black July purges also built museums and small memorials, as warnings of what will happen if the Bujanski would give in to their anger and become more monstrous than the Terrans.

Because of the kingdom's obsession with avoiding Terranisation, the events of Black July were not censored, but even shown in morality classes at the end of a long list of wicked people. In morality classes for younger students, the events were simplified to:

"*After independence, some people were not happy that not every Terran had to die for the sins of their people. So they went out and started hunting for Terrans to kill. They were full of anger over every murder by the Terrans, that anyone who even behaved like a Terran was also put to death. To stop them from killing off everyone else in Bujan, we had to form new armies to fight against them.*"

Making fun of the revolution or its members is a criminal offense in Bujan, due to possible ties with the Wannaenid reign of terror. In the 1910s, documentaries and dramas were released that criticised abusive behaviours by *some* revolutionaries, yet they also kept reminding the viewers that those actions alone were against the nation's well-being and liberation.

The massacres of Internet users in central Bujan by the death gangs led to a nationwide shunning of people suspected of online offenses. Those crimes ranged from rude behaviour to even blocking innocent users over trivial reasons. This was due to the Terrans using the Internet to incite hatred of the natives, and arrested blockers being seen as too hostile and selfish against Bujanski society. Such users were jailed and publicly shamed, banned from venues and forced into apologising to the people they hurt. The same abusive treatment by Terrans also led to the Bujanski seeking to forcibly remove behaviours and attitudes associated with their abusers, usually by punishing anyone who is associated with their abusers' deeds.

The horrors of Black July were one of the reasons why the Bujanski made Ardeschen clothing the official proper wear in their society. They wanted to remove any association with the massacres by using their creativity.

## Flags

### Revolutionaries' member armies and groups

King's Men (Dostagir's own army).Rodnover flag used by Ontemazei converts. Used by several Ontemazei armies formed from slave revolts.Free North. Orange represents salvation and repentance; from its sanctity in Wonao religion and Hinduism.Another banner used by Free North Terrans, representing their Christian faith. They also wanted to prove that Christians can be loyal to Buyan.Flag of Virimvon, the basis of the modern Buyanski flag. In turn based on the flag of King Terumal, last monarch of Buyan before Sarmelonid conquest.
### Other revolutionary flags

A religious flag used mostly by Rodnovers, but also by their allies of various or no faith. It represents justice being the will of the Gods, and the unity of Buyan's various peoples.A Rodnover prayer flag waved at New Year celebrations every March. The stars and kolovrat also represent hope in the Gods helping Buyan's people become free again.Royal Rukanian flag, waved by many Buyanski. In mockery of how their oppressors compared them to one enemy from Terra, they began adopting that Terran nation's symbols. The revolutionaries found out they resembled Rukania, an ancient ally.Flag waved by supporters of the Buyanski knights from Rukania. It was based on the banners of Rukanian knights, but incorporating the blue of the Slavs and the orange of the Wonaos.Rukanian war flag.Flag used by Rukanian knights.Proposed flag of Buyan.
### Terrans and Wannaenids

Wannaenid EmpireTyrskaChurch of QSerpentiansSalvationist PartyMaizefolk
### Colonial flags

Zavtrana Province (Tyrska)Diocese of Balennaria (Qyuvian)People's Republic of Balennaria (Serpentians)Salvationist Realm of Zvesta (Salvationist Party)
### Traitors

Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta, or Buyanski death gangs
## See also

* Denlotian law, the influence for the harsh purges against the Terrans
* Bujanski taboos
* Bloka, Curse of 400