Amokolian Revolution
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| Part of Unravelling of the Vanic Web | |||||
 Frankish riot police preparing to throw florian cocktails at rioters in Tsofnhafen |
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 Francia
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 Elwynn
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 Krasnocoria
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| Fränkische Armee | Amokolian Highlanders
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The Amokolian Revolution was an event that occurred in West Amokolia in the aftermath of the disentegration of the Vanic Web, in early to mid 1685. Ethnic Amokolians, belonging to the Amokolian Freedom Front and the Elwynnese Unity Party, rose against their Germanian and Froyalanish masters, demanded their independence from the shared monarchy with Batavia, disgusted at the monarchy's ties with Stormark and Froyalan, and demanded the reinstatement of respect for their nationality, history, and culture. Massive looting of monarchy-specific and Froyalanish properties occurred. King Arkadius and his wife left Amokolia.
The Amokolian Freedom Front and the Elwynnese Unity Party, opposition parties in the Reichstag, had the Reichstag sit – with the other parties boycotting the session. With a unanimous vote, the Reichstag, renamed the Parliament of West Amokolia, they declared the reinstatement of the pre-Wende constitution pending the rewriting of a constitution, and a normalization of their brethren in East Amokolia. To that end, they requested the aid of the Elwynnese government to restore democracy, order, and the respect of human rights across West Amokolia.
While in safety away from the activities in West Amokolia, Arkadius issued a decree of abdication of the Amokolian throne to Prince Kir of Shireroth. This act surprised everyone, from the Arkadian nobility in West Amokolia, the protesters and looters, and Prince Kir himself. The Amokolian Highlanders, garrisoned in West Amokolia, declared their loyalty to King Kir, and upon submitting himself to the Parliament of West Amokolia, Kir promised to follow whatever decisions the Parliament decided. The commanders of the Highlanders would stand by it. The rest of the Imperial Frankish Army rejected Arkadius's abdication, and attempted to secure power across Amokolia and Batavia for itself. In Batavia, it was met by the Batavian Revolution.
The seeds of the revolution had been sown in the decision of Arkadius to align his interests with those of the House of Ettlingar Freyu, a course of action which, along with certain overt attempts at manoeuvring his way onto the Golden Mango Throne of Shireroth had alienated West Amokolia from its fellow Vulture States, similarly established in the ruined of the Shirerithian empire following the Kalirion Fracture. That Arkadius had sought the friendship of Stormark after being rebuffed in his hegemonic ambitions only served to further inflame the ire of those Benacian members of the Raspur Pact in view of the generally anti-Vanic bent of their alliance - itself a direct consequence of the Auspicious Occasion. The wilful disregard, and increasing disdain, that Arkadius showed towards those opposing his foreign policy goals, led by increments to a collapse in goodwill and trust between Amokolia and Elwynn, culminating in the Second Amokolian War. Although this conflict was inconclusive in its outcome, distorted by the propaganda put out by both sides, one discernible effect had been, in the words of Arkadius himself, the "uniting the Frankish Empire and the High Realm of Stormark into one goal and one destiny". Stormark's involvement in Amokolia ramped up dramatically as a consequence of that confliict, with the former seeing in Amokolia an opportunity to break out of the quarantine to which it had been subjected since the days of the Auspicious Occasion back in 1651.
The wartime mutation of West Amokolia into Francia was a symptom of the royal court and the governing elite becoming increasingly detached and remote from the Amokolian people - a remoteness only made possible by the ongoing subsidy provided by Stormark. On account of this Arkadius could refuse no overture made by the House of Ettlingar Freyu, especially after they had contrived to introduce Esther Esposito, the royal bastard forced upon the Kaiseress Noor during the Froyalanish-captivity of Elwynn, into his bedchamber. Thereafter Hubris and Nemesis made Brandenburg their court.
