Cynerethic Civil War
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| Cynerethic Civil War | |||||||
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 Concordance forces prepare to engage Dominion troops during the Siege of Tanrus in November 2019. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 The Concordance Anaryssian Orders |
 Cynerethic Dominion Colsil Voyd Front | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Selania III Selenn Crixan Suva Draeuz Caidanomir Taidamun Herlor Vorsen Hersis Duyilan Talom |
Yavalin Draeth Zannan Kraen Nadori Hania Eldris Maal Lyra Zaezia | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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5,800,000 1,100,000 |
2,100,000 380,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Military Dead: 850,000 Military Wounded: 1,650,000 Military Total: 2,500,000 Civilians Dead: 1,125,250 |
Military Dead: 720,500 Military Wounded: 1,350,000 Military Total: 2,070,500 Civilians Dead: 1,870,300 | ||||||
The Cynerethic Civil War (Cyneric: Va Wuur Civas un Cynerethes), also known alternatively as the Cynerethic Socialist Revolution in the north and the War of Manumission in the south, was a civil war fought in Cynereth from 2019 to 2026 between the ruling Concordance government in Laeleath and the Socialist Dominion. Stemming from long-standing political sectarian violence in the Cynerethic territories of Caenara and Illewe, the Civil War was fought primarily over the suspension of civil and political rights in the southern territories and allegations of human rights abuses. This purview broadened into a conflict between those seeking to create a populist front for greater civil liberties and those seeking to uphold the Concordance's historical values.
Following months of skirmishes and decades of general unrest, the fighting began in earnest with the Tanrus Offensive on Halloween night in 2019. Concordance forces under the command of Dralin Crixan Suva sought to break the political stalemate with revolutionaries of the Colsil Voyd populist front with a military incursion. The resulting Battle of Tanrus resulted in more than 70,000 civilian and military casualties; the failure of the Concordance to seize the city led to the declaration of the Dominion, and the start of the war proper. The conflict would lead to the partitioning of the Cynerethic state into the Concordant-north and the Dominion-south, and dissolve the centuries-old theocratic monarchy in favor of a new military government. Intervention on both sides by members of the international community would play a key role in the outcome of the war.
Questions over international recognition and the materiel disadvantages of the socialist forces were offset by rampant intrigue in the Laeleath Government that ultimately led to the toppling of the Aunura in a Coup d'état that installed Dralin Suva as the new leader of the Concordance. Cronyism and unchecked patronage further frayed an already-weakened loyalist alliance, inspiring the socialists to engage in the Avastra Campaign in their famous "Push to the Sea". The Fall of Laeleath effectively ended the fighting in July 2024, though the war would enter a prolonged stalemate while the terms of the Treaty of Bataan were settled.
Conscription and volunteer armies numbering almost 9.4 million Cynerethans from both sides took part in the fighting. Approximately 4.57 million military casualties were recorded during the war, and just under 3 million civilians died from the fighting as well as infectious disease outbreaks and widespread atrocities committed by both sides, including the use of biological and chemical weapons. The appalling death toll and casualty figures — nearly 7% of the pre-war population was killed — symbolized the utter brutality and carnage of the conflict as well as the preexisting suffering of the Cynerethic peoples, creating a major humanitarian crisis in the months following the conflict. Political reprisals in the aftermath of the war led to an agitation of existing tensions in the new partition, and sparked increased international concern over renewed fighting along the Cynerethic Demilitarized Zone (CYN-DMZ). The war was the deadliest and most costly in the history of Cynereth, and one of the most violent in recent memory in Northern Belisaria.