History of Crystal Spires

Prehistory

The history of ancient D'hɑlbrisir begins with the emergence of urban societies, discovered in the old Capitals of Merlon, Mephiste, and Caltris. The founding of D'hɑlbrisir is believed to have began with the tribal councils establishing of the Churches and Temples to Fornt, the God of Justice. Having declared their independence from the Human Homelands to the East on 23rd in August with the true year remaining unknown, but estimated to have been in 23,000 in the age of the Golden Leaf (GLA). The proof of their founding was written documents that showed decisions made by tribal religious groups. These first known Beastling metropolises are said to have been founded in the area between the current Capital of Caltris, Mephiste, and the City of Lothar where they were organised around the Church and the High Priest was considered the leader of the village. Then there was an indirect schism of the Temple, the Holy Order, and The Church which led to the founding of the Council. The temple had the High Council and High Court and members were considered the legislators and also judges. They took care of secular and administrative duties. The Holy Order became the Uncorruptibles; mages, warriors, and priests who act as law enforcement officers and take care of the foreign and domestic security. The Church became the main religious center and became the center for education, taxation, social policy, welfare and healthcare.

Early Theocratic Rule

Eight hundred and twenty one years before Kessian's First Call to the Faithful, the Great Holy Wars raged between followers of all the Mystrian Pantheon. The Forntians were unified until they were divided by a vision said to be given to the Forntian cleric Asmund, who claimed to be an Aspect of the Silver Flame. The Order of Idealists did not believe in the vision by Asmund and the High Judgemaster Dreiland Haalm declared Asmund to be self-deluded and cursed. Asmund and his group of followers were declared to have been tricked by Zaiden, an illusion, or a cursed by an abyssal lord, and thus the Judgemaster declared them nonbelievers until they volunteered Asmund to the order to be cleansed of his corruption, and the Order refused. The two Orders declared each other heretics and this created irreconcilable differences between the two orders solidifying a schism within the Order. The Idealists remained in the High Council, and the heretical sect became the Order of the Silver Flame.

The Northern Riders and the Secular Imperial Rule

Unified by the Forntian faith of the Idealists, the High Council decided that the temples needed more secular protections from incursions by the Human invaders, and so the Idealists elected a great High King from the Lord of the Phoenixes who was said to be one of the wisest of all beings blessed by the Gods. The Seat of the King was said to be in the City of Ancient Merlon, where the Phoenix king created the hierarchy of beings, the Kuukarah, which was a rigid caste system which proposed that all beings were subject to the absolute will of the King, with beings of of air and flight ruling over the beings of land, and those of land ruled over the creatures of the sea. Many of the tribes had hence adopted heavily rigid Aristocratic Caste systems in turn except for the the northern riders, which were nomadic Beastling tribes hailing from the area around Mephiste. They held that egalitarianism was absolutely key to the happiness of the people, and were thus declared enemies of the religious order of the Order of the Idealists and Enemies of the King.

The Invasion of Altea and the Order of the Flame

The High King Ralfir, after the collapse of the rule of King Jaragen III across in the Altean state,demanded that the Order of Idealists expand the borders to the east.The King with the authoritative control over the Council forced their way into the Altean heartlands, and at first encountered minimal resistance by the humans, but then over time it began wearing the Beastling forces down. This caused a drop in morale and a drop of support for the King. The once reviled and banished Northern Riders were then welcomed into the northern cities in defiance of the religious and Royal Decree and there was a rise in support for the Northern Riders. The tribal leader of the northern riders appealed to the High Council citing the of deep dissatisfaction among the poor, the debt of the nation due to the war, and the loss of the power in the east. The brothers in the First Order of Idealists tired of the rule by the High King declared all the leaders of the aristocracy corrupt and overthrew them and executed High King Ralfir. Then in Gavenridge a decisive loss had determined that the Beastlings would not be able to hold off an organized strike, and Hinnid gave a call to the faithful to curb the advance and also reunify the Altean state. This broke off into disillusionment with the war and the Order was desperate to withdraw for fear of their home territories coming under threat from eastern rivals, and tribal factionalism was at its height so they negotiated a peace with the humans utilizing the Allied Faiths of Serion. The treaty had worked until the attack on Mephiste by the Order of the Flame. This created an anger towards the Serion Knights that did not become settled until the Times of Darkness.

The Fell Crusade and the Rise of Republicanism

The Fell Crusade

Just before the beginning of the Fell Crusade, due to a distaste with rule by kings and aristocrats the Beastling States experimented with Parliamentary Democracy declaring their independence from the whole region of Mystria writing, signing, and Establishing of the Charter of the Spirean Declaration of Rights and establishing the use of Libertarian Capitalism for their newly established republic. They elected another King by holy mandate, a Forntian Knight by the name of Ser Trathdir Halmen and he became the new High King. With the new expansion of the rights of beings, the Order of Idealists began a few years of uninterrupted prosperity before there were suddenly attacks by unbidden forces throughout the lands. These attacks were organized and concentrated on the areas to the west, and then pushed their advance through the Beastling States. Mephiste and Lothar had both been sacked twice but the city of Caltris did not fall. This lead to the moving of the High Council from Lothar to Caltris where they pondered what to do with the unbidden horde, and how to prevent complete and total annihilation. This meeting was called the Last Call, as it was believed that the unbidden would fully destroy the Order of Idealists, but during the meeting, word of the success of the Shining Army to the East spread. The High Council was presented with a dangerous choice, either they could allow the Shining Army to lend them aid to recover their lands from the unbidden, or they could face complete and total annihilation. They decided to allow the Shining Army to pass and consolidated troops with them and the Order of Idealists helped forcibly regain control of their lands. To ensure that no unbidden threat would return, the Beastling States issued rewards for destruction of unbidden and their camps which now that they were disorganized, Unbidden became nomadic folk.

The First War of Attrition and the Communist Revolution

The First War of Attrition began after the recovery from the Times of Darkness while the Beastling States were reeling from the unbidden horde. The Human Kingdom under the reign of the Archon Messandre who saw this as an opportunity to take the unprotected lands to the east. Sometime during that time, he contracted the taint and became corrupted. It was then that the Archon ordered the purges. The Army of Human Power would enter a protectorate and murder every nonhuman within and declare it to be property of Altea and the Human Kingdom. During this time there was a plutocracy and the people became more and more dissatisfied and so the Order of Idealists were called to dismantle the aristocracy and the Monarchy once and for all. This was done on the Greater Ceremony of Purification symbolically, and within the next year a new system was created which mimicked the religious structure of the High Council itself, and it was called Council Communism. This caused a renewal of the economy and an expansion of technological advances. High Chancellor Selanie was declared the First High Chancellor of the High Council. She was also of the lowest Caste, the Seabound.

The Wars of Attrition

During the end of the first War of Attrition, Archon Messandre continued his march and with his General and in 5 years he seized much of the lands to the north into Dwarven territory, securing the roads into the Changeling empire, and he also managed to purge the City of Arden in the Beastling homeland. The tides changed however as a young soldier, the White Winged Auryn took flight and warned the Falcone protectorate of the oncoming siege and in the Battle of Margoth hills due to the innovation of Magitech there was a decisive beastling victory and the humans were forced back across their borders.

High Chancellor Selanie

For a year and a half there was no further conflict.

The Second War of Attrition began when Archon Messandre succeeded in assassinating the High Chancellor Selanie of the Beastling States and seized the High Council and managed to execute fifteen ministers. For a year and a half there was no further conflict, and Altean occupation until the secret election of the new High Chancellor Verys Altric, a Falcone warrior, who happily led the rebuilt High Council and deposed the Occupation with the help of White Winged Auryn. During this time of Beastling recovery the Alteans rebuilt their forces with racial recruiting. With the addition of the enslavement of captured and reimprinted POWs, they had built an army that was much more powerful than the first. It was then that the new charge entered mostly unopposed while human occupation of the Northern Footlands began. This led to several more genocides by humans in the Beastling Homelands and the first attack upon the Changelings. With domination of the Southern Dwarven mines, the Humans cut off ore trade into the Beastling homelands and the Changeling homelands. For two years there was battle in the Changeling Empire, but the harsh terrain favored their army. The Human expansion to the Changeling territory ended.This changed the focus into expansion into the Beastling States, and Beastling resistance in the occupied territories were met with abject brutality. The Purges continued for another 2 years of occupation.

The Third War of Attrition began when Maven Auryn made the Declared Proposal for the Declared Charter of Protected Rights, and created the New Idealist Army. The New Idealist Army was made up of the Cloistered brothers of the Fornt church of Justice and a now powerful resistance leader, Maven Auryn, established an alliance with the Chosen in the Woodfolk Kingdom and was rejected aid by the Elves. With the unified army of Idealists, they were able to force the Archon's army back to its borders and end the purges. The Decisive battle being held by the Treican fields led to the forcing back of the Human Army. This lead to the signing of the Treaty of Merlon, a full free trade agreement and pact with the Treefolk and the Beastling Idealists. The pact led to 5 years of prosperity for the Beastling and Treefolk states. Then after the prosperity came the drought.

The Fourth War of Attrition began when the droughts led to a period of Elven economic collapse. The Treefolk had a full trade agreement with the Beastlings, and so aid was provided, but the Elves were not so fortunate. Forced by circumstance, the Elves moved their cities Eastward and crossed the border of the Changeling Empire. The Changelings announced that further incursion would be an act of war. The Idealist Army was requested to come to the aid of Changelings. To their surprise, The Idealists sided with the Elves and requested negotiations begin

The Idealist to Nilmarinth

between the Elves and Changelings regarding disputed territories. During the negotiations there was a riot at the border which was known as the Flaxwood incident, and it led to armed incursions by the elves into changeling territory. The armies were met with fierce resistance and the Dragon Changelings of the North who crushed the strike.The Elves then proposed an alliance with the Idealist Army, speaking with General Maven at Nilmarith in response to the decimation of the Elven city of Tuareg. Maven agreed to assist in return to returning Elves to their border, but on the condition that their Navy was pledged to defend the beastlings in the event of attack. The changelings were then forced back by the Idealist/Elven alliance. The Elves kept their word and did not attack the Changelings further. The rains returned a year later while the Beastlings helped rebuild the devastated Elven Cities. The drought over, peace returned.

The Fifth war of Attrition began when after 20 years of occupation by the Human Republic, the Dwarves had finally broken the Human hold upon their Ore and in the Sacking of Deylor, the Dwarves sacked the occupied city and reestablished the City of Dorgon. The Thane and his numerous Royal Guard broke the hold that Humans had over the Ore Trade and declared war on the humans, and embargoed all ore to the Human lands leading to the Metal Strikes in Drakenspire. The Archon Messandre, tired of the Dwarven resistance made an alliance with the Changelings and began the assault on Terradin. The Dwarves appealed to the Elves who called the Idealists. The Idealist Maven Auryn slew Human General Trayor Maston, and the Dwarven Kingdom was liberated. The Dwarves, indebted to the Idealists, decided to allow open trade and their relationship became much warmer. The High Chancellor made a free trade agreement with the Dwarves and they cooperated the ore and tech trade with the Treaty of Harmony. The Archon did not intend to let this stand, and the Changelings had been crossed too many times by the Idealists the uneasy peace lasted for a year.

The Sixth war of attrition began with the death of High Chancellor Verys Altric after he was finally at the end of his term as High Chancellor. The Human Power Army was almost completely pushed back when Marja Ventuk, a Mermaid, won the High Council election by a landslide. Maven stayed busy leading the Idealist Army and pushed back the remnants of the human incursions to their rightful borders when an attempted assassination nearly claimed his life and left him out of combat for about a year. Falton Eylis led the idealists in his place. It was then in the battle of Cooran that the Order of the Flame finally was called in and the Beastling charge was ended. There was a tense stalemate and the Knights held the border. It was during this time that the Changelings were betrayed by the Archon again and they declared a truce with the idealists.

The Seventh and Final War of Attrition was held when a Coup happened in Altea forcing the Tyrant Archon Messandre to head away from the Capital as he sought refuge in the forests by Mordovia. Maven, fully recovered from his injuries discovered that there was to be a trap in Restonshire Keep and an attempt upon the life of the High Chancellor. So he flew to Mordovia to meet Eylis there in time to warn him of the trap and he and Eylis both headed to the location of the Archon finding him far gone from the corruption. They fought the Archon together but Eylis was knocked out by a powerful attack from the Archon leaving Maven to face him by himself. In single combat Maven fought the Archon and with the power of his magic and his monstrous strength, Maven fought for his life against Archon Messandre and almost died as the Archon poisoned his sword with Lyre's edge, attempting to finish Maven once and for all when Maven grappled the sword from the Archon's hand and the Archon drew his own blood. The Lyre's edge poison meant a death sentence. Rather than have him suffer a horrific death due to Lyre's Edge Poison, Maven dealt a death blow to his opponent and the wars of Attrition were finally over. During the times of rebuilding High Chancellor Marja Ventuk helped mend the relations with the humans and also with the changelings. The Peace had truly begun, and Maven Auryn, the new Hero of the Revolution was given the title of Knight Templar to the Temple of Fornt, to which he refused. The years that followed he and Eylis, both judges and now masters of peace were both nominated as High Chancellor as Marja Ventuk decided to step down. Maven was overwhelmingly voted the position of High Chancellor due to his reputation of being a maverick, compassionate lawmaker, and a fair law enforcer, and he rules to this day. Falton Eylis, displeased with Maven's softer stance on Humans declared the Den of Kits, the Foxkin protectorate independent which led to a severance of ties to Caltris.

The Coming of the Time of Sorrows and the Seekers

For reasons unknown the High Chancellor took an extended sabbatical, there was a strange resurgence of the numbers of Unbidden after 10 years of peace, and the spread of Unbidden Corruption was on the rise. This lead to the Riots to the West of Mephiste and the gathering of Assassins in the city of Hilzonshire who wished to murder off Representatives in the High Council. They tried to Create a Rogue state and secede from the Beastling States, but then the order to stabilize the area was given, and the city was purged of all terroristic elements. 5 Representatives were murdered by the end of the incident, and for a long time it was believed that Maven, too, was killed, but then he resurged to attend the trial of the future Seeker of the Flower of Zaiden. The seeker was said to have received the actual relics, but the unbidden resurgences led to the numerous sieges of cities across the border in Altea and the razings of Gilmesh, Drygazil, Cumborough and then the decisive battle in Suld where the Unbidden were in fact pushed back, and the city spared. It was said that the relic of the Gods made this decisive battle, but the missing relic still cannot be found so the proof is spurious. After the attack in Suld the Unbidden reorganized and marched to the Altea City, and attacked Cooran. It was then that there were attacks in the city of Anherc and Shaei which resembled the fullscale Altean purges during the wars of Attrition, and the High Council Convened and had the War meeting and the decision was made to strike at the City of Bretonshire, a strategic trading post which brought imports into Altea City. The Unbidden had forced the Tigreer protectorate apart and this lead to the Raid of the independent foxkin protectorate and the Den of Kits was almost completely wiped out, and Falton Eylis was killed. The Growing unease in the West in Metanih due to the unbidden threat in their neighbors caused a large scuffle. In the meantime there was discontent growing between the Beastling States and The Underworld of Terradin. The Thane declared that the Seeker be returned to Terradin to face a sentence of death, or the Beastling States would go to war. The seeker was tricked into going to Terradin.

The Siege of the Fortress of Elyion and the Night Stalker of the Lost Ones

The attacks in Connonleah and Bretonshire which was put on the Beastling States gained the ire of the Order of the Flame, who saw it as an attack against humans everywhere, and as a result they demanded the head of the High Chancellor as recompense. When this demand was refused there was an attack in Mephiste which was subsequently raided by unbidden before the brave Jurgen Mardoc led his men to the Fortress of Elyion. It was then that the ruse that had been used against the Beastling States and the Alteans had been exposed, and the Attack on the city of Cooran in Carceno was ordered by the unbidden, and the whole of Cooran was defended by the whole of the Shinzu clan who were completely decimated. The Leader of the Unbidden was revealed before as the unnamed one had somehow gained a conscience, and suddenly the behavior of unbidden became erratic. There was also an attack in Lynnberg and Laiserman in the Beastling States by unbidden droves.

Declarations of Reasoned Beings

After the near misses with the War that almost happened in Terradin, and the siege of Mephiste Anti-unbidden sentiments were extremely high and there were calls for their complete and total annihilation. It was then that it was revealed by the High Chancellor that the Unbidden were actually reasoned beings with a conscience, but that their suffering at the hands of the bidden beings had caused a rise in Nationalism and the desire for an independent state. The Stateless unbidden appealed to the High Chancellor and Maven made the most risky decision in his life and actually agreed to consult with them, who were at the time, enemies of the state, and they were also not considered to be reasoned beings. Maven created a law declaring that Unbidden were reasoned beings and demanded the protection of them as a sapient race. He was accused of being a corrupted thrall, and also for having interacted with rogue elements in the state. This led to his trial for treason and he was found guilty and was to be executed by the state, but his case made precedent and declared the Unbidden reasoned beings. Unwiling to affirm the rights of the unbidden, the High Council tried to execute Maven and bury the legislation but he, a skilled archmagi, escaped with his life where he was believed to have hidden in Sylandral and taken refuge in Metanih. He hid there for months, assumed to have been successfully killed by his adopted Daughter Madrine Lafayette Sandrilo. He was grievously wounded but had survived the attack, and in the aftermath the Changelings declared Unbidden reasoned beings as well. There was, however, a deep consequence to the situation. The unbidden, unused to the newfound protections attacked the Changelings and sacked the Capital and killed the Representative of the Changelings, leaving them susceptible to the unbidden where they were occupied by an unbidden warlord called the "Son of Zaiden."

The Crisis Age

Madrine Lafeyette Santillo was elected as Judgemaster and took over the High Council when Eames refused to take control. It was said it was because Maven's trial was revealed for the sham it was, and he did not wish to be culpable. This created a factional conflict between the Uncorruptibles of the Church and the Forntian Idealists of the State. This led to one of the most bloody Battles in Caltris's history which lead to the near purge of the Caltrean Uncorruptible order, but it was recreated by young Yalij Dontoth in the time after the Crisis. The Order was significantly damaged on both sides and they called for the return of the High Chancellor and begged that he retake his position. Maven attempted to return but there was the threat of war by the Factional Schismatic Order against Metanih caused him to stay there and protect it. The war was averted by Maven surrendering to the factional order and in lieu of subjection to their demands of having him executed, he quelled the threat.

The Ethereal Shift and Yesopalitha

After a disturbance in the planes, there was a shift which opened up Mystria to a vastly different world, and an island nation appeared in Beastling Territorial waters which surfaced during the shift. As a manner to make amends, Maven granted the lands to the unbidden and the island was colonized by the unbidden.

Heaven's Tear, The Harmonious Call, and the Anti Spirean Movement

In the days before joining the Coalition of Ponyist States, the Spires was ever a stalwart supporter of Pony rights, always appealing to the Elements of Harmony to attempt to quell international conflict between ponykind and appealing to their practice in the world theater. The Spirean people opened their hands to those who shared in their vision of freedom, equality, harmony, and justice and found it repaid with distrust and open cruelty. Some of this cruelty was met by fear and hatred, something the Pony Race had experienced throughout the times of what the Spireans called the "Heaven's Tear", which was when ponies, a peace-loving and gentle race, were deliberately targeted for eradication due to their race and religion. The Spirean people, sympathetic to their cause, rallied behind the 'Harmonious Call' which was a bannerless group, whose duty it was to respond quick with deliberate action against genocide, with lifesaving as their priority. Forming many organizations against genocide Spireans were a bastion of sapient rights, and carried themselves forward and alone to defend ponies everywhere. With honor Spireans fought for ponies, justice as their cause, and with honor they struggled to protect the ponies's rights with the banner of sapient rights waving and with their hearts full of loving compassion, they died in the battlefield protecting the gentle creatures from the horrors of war and death. With every bit of loyalty they focused on protecting the innocent pony race. As the clouds of the Heaven's Tear abated and the dusts of conflict began to settle, the genocides ended and the Spireans with their great pride tried to fade into anonymity but things did not continue to be so. The Spirean's reputation did not disappear, but so too did there come a shadow which faced the Spires which looked them in the eye.

Then came the Opposition to Hippostania. In many ways Hippostania stood for everything that the Spireans opposed: It was baldfaced corruption supported by institutional greed. It did not take long for the Spires to bare their fangs to the Hippostanians, but they were defended by a built-in status quo made during the Heaven's Tear to support the Pony Race during the horrible times of blood and terror: The Coalition of Ponyist States. At first the Spireans regarded such an organization with disgust, it was a Bastion of Pony supremacy which instilled only the defense of the Pony Race and Religion as opposed to promotion of harmony and sapient rights in general. The Spires attempted to avoid it, and when confronted by the Status quo Hammer, the Spires hammered back with their progressive vision of a unified understanding of harmony and brotherhood. It was a stalemate with each step until the matter boiled over to what was almost open conflict between the Spireans and the Hippostanians. It became a Cold War that continued on and on as the Hippostanians became more paranoid and began to alienate those around them. At the same time, the Spireans pulled into the grasp of Great Powers in the Coalition's favor.

The CoPS Condemnation of Hippostania and Establishment of Spirean Membership in CoPS

The Spireans struggle against the status quo hammer however seemed to have made its impression upon the Coalition itself, for their decisions had slowly but surely made ripples in the Pony world. Within a few years there were sprouting alliances as the Spireans took their open hand of comradeship to attempt to unite and raise the smaller nations in the Coalition into a dignified position globally as part of their vision to bring forth a brighter future, but once again Hippostania stood before them on the edge of life and death and the Spireans were given an open hand by the Greater Pony Herd. It was a choice to make a difference inside the Coalition rather than outside as an observer. It was a chance to shake the Coalition with Spirean presence rather than rattle from the outside of a gilded cage. The Spirean High Chancellor shook the hand of Twilight Sparkle, sealing the deal of friendship between the two and with a signature the seeds of conflict were sown, and the Coalition began their division as they divided and pushed away from Hippostania little by little. During the Shrill Crisis however, things had proven to be far more complex than first imagined. While the Hippostanians were being repulsed by the coalition, so too were the Spireans as the strange alienation began.

It was not long after that the Ponyist States saw the Spires as a member of the coalition that the fear and uncertainty surrounding the Spirean people had backlashed horrifically. Perhaps they believed Spireans to be a savage race, but no one really knew why they were being targeted. Spireans were described as beastmen and were considered savages who were big, tough, and not particularly bright. They were a race of brutes from an incomprehensibly proud warrior tradition whose glorious goal preached rebellion and insurrection. They aspired to Knighthood and the brotherhood of Rangers who scouted the horrifying wood in their terrible home. A frail hope was in their eyes as they were raised at birth to become determined beings beyond all sense of reason, with the fear of death chasing their every tottle from infancy and every step and leap until they reached their grave. They lived each day familiar with unimaginable brutality, and were taught to beware and fear enslavement which was very real and not mere conjecture. They were taught mnemonics to remind them how to assemble rifles in classrooms, they were taught how to fire a gun with instruction. Screams of terror and rumbling in the dark were their lullabies. At best Spireans were considered to be Noble Savages in an almost medieval society of white knights, but at worst the Spireans were no different from the monsters which tore their own families to shreds. The mothers who sang her songs to her child at night was no different from the sirens which made their calls to wayward sailors, the fathers which supported their sons and daughters were no different from the ogres, wyverns, and chimeras which killed their wayward sons and daughters. These Spirean people were monsters with their strange, beastly visage and their strange almost guttural language, and they spoke of ideals which terrified others; Ideals like collectivism and communism, ideals which sought to end corruption, tyranny, and despotism; the ideal of Justice, ever-changing and complex. Many feared the Spireans would seek them, that they would come and with the brutal force Spireans used to crush horrible monsters of imagination, oh how they feared being at the end of a Spirean scope so much that they were willing to go to great lengths to curb Spirean power. The idea that the beastman could not struggle between life and death and not only survive, but live with dignity was unthinkable.So Anti-Spireanism became the status quo, and the Spirean people suffered for it.

The Shrill Crisis

The Spirean Participation in the Shrill Crisis began when the President of the Shrill government was illegally overthrown by a coup, installing a religious junta known as the Celestian Dominion. The Dominion imprisoned the President, and the Spirean Leadership were conflicted about how to approach this matter. By deliberation, they would not recognize the new leadership, and in an act of subversion, the High Chancellor took an enormous risk, and voluntarily took custody of the Shrill President, with a ruse given off that they would instruct her in theocratic hegemony. To their surprise the ruse was broken, and the High Chancellor was almost publicly executed by the Shrilland Guards, and was able to whisk the President of Shrilland away to the cold mountains of Mephiste. A juristic ruling concerning Celestian law was issued by an Shrill Leader declaring the Beastling States to be ruled by, Maven Auryn, a servant of Discord. By religious law he and the President of Shrilland were ordered to be surrendered to the Shrill government to be executed by religious decree. The High Chancellor's refusal was met with calls for crusades upon the Beastlings States, endorsed by many Anti-Spirean religious ponyists.

The call for crusade was immediately followed by a rush to blockade the country of Shrilland. There was fear of neighboring colonial powers overrunning the vulnerable nation of Shrilland. Under the immense stress of the declarations of war and the forced conscription of the populace, the Shrills were making their way to Mystria while civil war ravaged their homeland. In a spur of luck the Lunar Princess spoke on behalf of peace and condemned the attempted Crusade. The Condemnation and the open rally against the Celestian Dominion caused the Shrill Government to implode and Spirean Blood was not shed. This caused a greater reverence of the Deity of the Moon, and a rise in the adherence to religious Harmonism.

The Peacian Hegemonic War and the Treaty of Caltris

Crystal Spires was known as very strongly leftist, and they sought allies in Paradoxia and the Northermark. One with the Queendom of Peace, and another with the Socialist Worker's Republic of New Freedomstan. Spires tried to broker peace with the two nations and was successful, but it caused emnity between divisive powers. Both considered the Spirean High Chancellor to be a liability to their political power, so the Peacians tried to have him assassinated by New Freedomstan shooting him out of the sky by Nefreedian anti-aircraft batteries. He was forced to try and find a way to escape with his life, but uncovered stations where Sapient Rights abuses were being conducted, and things became worse. He became a witness to their crimes, and a trap was set in which the High Chancellor would have been met with a full firing squad for execution and in panic he summoned arcane horror, resulting in the murder of thirty three militiamen. When the High Chancellor summoned the arcane abomination, New Freedomstan declared him a Terrorist, and demanded he appear before their court and refusing to do so would result in a war with New Freedomstan.

The New Freedomstani War and The Aftermath

After the deadline for the war had ended the High Chancellor was demanded by the Nefreedian government to appear before the Central People’s Collective, for a trial, and quite likely an execution. He was said to have gone to attend when he was kidnapped by the Army of Democracy and was hidden and threatened and as the Deadline passed, the Nefreedians then prepared for war with the Spires.

When the Spirean shores were violated by Nefreedian Naval forces they released nanites in men who were sacrificed and were fed to Spirean wildlife. This caused a death of a Kraken which burst an oilwell that supplied Ohm to the North in the High Mountains. An energy shortage resulted. The People in Ohm live far in the High Mountains of Fornt’s crown where it is freezing all the time, and without heat or energy to withstand the crisis they froze to death as the Mephisteans tried to connect them to their power grid. When Nefreedians landed Irianul was blasted with artillery shells and was decimated, Tabril was held hostage by the Nefreedians and later was destroyed completely in an attempted spell gone awry, Rulkjetaashan people were genocided. Hospitals and Schools were destroyed. Whole families massacred, and the entire Navy was decimated and destroyed.

Fordur collapsed with water shortages, and was taken in by Shaltric (and was later refounded). Vehir, another northern village was almost lost as well when the shortage of soldiers to protect them from monsters became worse. Without soldiers to protect the farmers, the farmers could not grow food which led to farmer's strikes. Without the transporters being able to deliver the food and fuels, the cities became locked away and the people starved. Crystal Spires fell from a population of almost 700,000,000 to almost 250,000,000 with full infrastructural collapse. With the struggle each day to keep cities supplied, there were many charities opened because there were not enough men to protect the workers, and not even enough workers to work.

The Collapse of the Coalition of Ponyist States and the Royal Pony Council's Establishment

The Great Powers in the Pony Lands released a barrage of Nuclear missiles into the Pony Republic of Hippostania, eradicating the nation with a bright blinding light that could be seen beyond the lands as a result of incurring upon the Spirean Waters with Subs armed with Submarine Ballistic Missiles which were supposedly claimed to have been lay to eradicate the Beastling States. The Spireans having encountered a close shave with complete and total eradication, defended themselves. They were however perceived by those in the CoPS as aggressors whose 'brash' decision cost the Hippostanians the one thing that their government had not taken from them, their lives. The situation was so alarming that the Spires could not stand another moment of being in the Coalition any longer. They resigned their membership, and then the Royal Pony Council was considered to be a solution, one that the Regal Princess Luna herself had suggested would have 'the true friends' of the Spires in it. Morale for the Spireans were very low, and they did not see this coalition with the optimism that they had when the High Chancellor shook hands with his friend Twilight Sparkle to declare their intention to make a positive change for pony rights.