Seglandic Civil War
Seglandic Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Royal Seglandic Armed Forces | Free Seglandic Army | ||||||
Seglandic Front | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
• Queen Mildguth • Landbeorht Truwung • Nothhere Goring • Leofcwen Sess |
• Afkarr Randr (Free Seglandic Army) • Ubeinn Tandri (Free Seglandic Army) • Mottull Hafgrimr (Seglandic Front) | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
600,000 infantry | 400,000 infantry | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Military; 120,000 dead 250,000 wounded Civilian; 200,000 dead 650,000 wounded |
Military; 105,000 dead 225,000 wounded Civilian; 200,000 dead 700,000 wounded |
The Seglandic Civil War was an armed conflict from 1979 to 1987 between various Pagan groups, such as the Free Seglandic Army and the Seglandic Front, and the Christian Seglandic government. It caused an estimated 650,000 fatalities and the exodus of approximately five million people from Segland.
The religious and ethnic diversity of the Seglandic population played a formative role in the war and the conflicts that preceded it. In April 1979, the low-level Pagan insurgency against the Seglandic government escalated into a major civil war after the arson of the Ágæti, the oldest tree in Segland and the holiest site in Tarannish Traditionalism, one of the major Pagan sects of the country's north. Hennish Protestants, the dominant ethnicity and religious sect in the Seglandic government, celebrated the act, leading to widespread violence in Segland's urban areas. Chancellor Landbeorht Truwung blamed Skarpr Tárann, a minor Pagan militant group, for orchestrating the arson and bombed suspected hideouts in the north. However, significant numbers of the Royal Seglandic Armed Forces (RSAF), notably members of the Tarannish and Peltish ethnic groups, began defecting to growing militias and launched attacks on Hennish civilians. The RSAF, increasingly a Hennish institution, responded in kind against Pagan civilians.