Wars for Pesrey

The Wars for Pesrey was a conflict that engulfed the kingdom of Pesrey from 703 to 708 AD. It opposed the pogititch allied with the royal power and a coalition of autonomist pogititch. This war begun as a bid by the king and his allies to gain influence and power back over his vassals, who were falling less and less in line with royal authority. Ironically it would lead to the effective dissolution of the kingdom thus ushering the Pogititch Period.

Pogititch allegiances
This conflict split Pesrey into two sides, the Royal Loyalists, who remained loyal to the king and wanted to reinforce his authority, and the Autonomists, who resisted the king's attempted power grab. Most of the pogititch would side with the Autonomists, especially republican or mercantile pogititch, the ones who sided with the King were mostly aristocratic pogititch, those that were geographically close to the king's territory, or the ones which had rulers related to or members of the royal family. Few pogititch decided to remain neutral, most notably the Island of Arube, due to its geographical isolation, did not feel concerned by the events of the continent.

Events
There was no formal declaration of war in this conflict, the King and his allies declared that they would take up arms against any vassal who would disobey his will. This threat was heeded by very few, indeed most thought it was empty of meaning and simply issued to try and appear threatening, smaller pogititch near the King's territory feared that declaration as they thought they would be the first victims of royal intervention. These pogititch would be proven right, as a show of force, the King would invade and seize land from one of his smaller vassals neighbouring his direct territory. In reaction to this a coalition of Autonomist pogititch formed and quickly grew in members, they would first meet to decide the course of action to take to resolve the situation, they would decide to pose an ultimatum to the King, he was to give all the land he had taken back to his vassal and retract his previous declaration or the coalition would intervene to depose him. In reaction to this ultimatum the King is quoted as saying "Who are these filthy rats trying to intimidate their King, know they not I rule by the will of Hwèza, their endeavour is futile, we shall crush these traitors". He would send a reply to the coalition stating, among other things, "When you pitifully lose this war you have started, be not surprised when your corpses hang before your conquered cities, your children, your cousins, and all of your kin will witness, destitute in the dirt and dust, your bloated and rotting eyes looking over your burned lands", it would be an understatement that he did not take well to the coalition's ultimatum.



Quickly the more numerous Autonomist forces would enter Loyalist territory and lay siege to many border towns, after these fell the road was open to total occupation of some pogititch, in others sieges had to be laid onto the capital cities of the pogititch.



After the southern Royal Loyalist pogititch were defeated the coalised armies could be entirely devoted to the northern front, the most resistant one as it was the heartland of the Royal domain. As the Autonomists' armies grew in number the fall of the Royal lands and the Loyalists was very swift.