Revakgol Empire History (proposed package)

{
  "aliases": [
    "First Fracture",
    "The Three-Claim Years",
    "Era of Cold Hearths"
  ],
  "content": {
    "causes": "Kaemisyol (born Zelguu Kairtis) dies without an equal successor. His mythos as Vaazaa\u2019Dovaajun outstrips any living claimant. War-blood Dovjun, palace kin, and northern Mulaagjuns each hold partial legitimacy: blood, conquest-right, or the Paathur bargains of the Great Wyrm War. The Dovaarein, designed as tradition\u2019s guardians, becomes a regency council rather than a brief caretaker. Northern clutch-memory of the Wyrm War \u2014 public loyalty, private Unburned grief \u2014 finds opportunity in the vacuum.",
    "course": "Vusokaar proclaims an Ashen Regency: the Flame Throne sits symbolically empty or under a weak interim Aalki whose decrees require Dovaarein countersign. In the northeast, a counter-court gathers around Paathur forms and at least one Saarotsos warlord who claims \u201cnorthern flame-right.\u201d Roads between core and frontier fall to bandit-legions and unpaid Tufae. Far garrisons \u2014 posts beyond easy supply \u2014 are abandoned or go rogue under local Furaktuz who stop remitting tribute. The split is administrative and military more than a clean secession map: two centers issue contradictory law, tax, and Kori-license seals for decades. Skirmishes flare along river corridors and highland passes; full annihilation of either court never quite arrives.",
    "legacy": "First proof that Revakgol can fracture without a foreign invader. Establishes the political habit of overcorrecting chaos with caste rigidity \u2014 seed of later cultural decay and of the purist factions that will oppose Aasa Kairtis. Zegtuzsos oral memory records the counter-court as a near-restoration; imperial archives call it rebellion. Both memories survive.",
    "outcome": "Neither court destroys the other. Exhaustion, famine risk, and fear of true dissolution push surviving Dovjun toward a hard reunification program later named the Consolidation Wars (6300\u20136400 MV). The regency era ends not with a beloved Aalki but with a restored single throne purchased by doctrine: Saarotsos supremacy and the Code of Burned Stone are sharpened so that \u201canother Ashen century\u201d becomes unthinkable to the victors.",
    "summary": "After Kaemisyol\u2019s death, Revakgol enters a prolonged succession crisis: a Dovaarein-led regency in Vusokaar contests a northern Zegtuzsos-leaning counter-court while outer garrisons thin. The empire splits in practice, shrinks at the edges, and only reunifies through the later Consolidation Wars \u2014 at the cost of a harder caste doctrine.",
    "territorial_change": "Shrink: outer northeastern and highland watch-lines thin; some clutch-lands revert to negotiated Paathur autonomy under thin imperial fiction. Split: dual courts (Vusokaar vs northern counter-court) for much of 6027\u20136299 MV. Core eastern Saarotsos provinces remain the only continuous spine. No foreign conquest of Vusokaar."
  },
  "id": "history.events.the_ashen_regency",
  "meta": {
    "notes": "Phase A draft. Promote to canon/json/history/events/the_ashen_regency.json only after approval.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "The Ashen Regency",
  "native": null,
  "relations": {
    "age": [
      "Third Age"
    ],
    "people": [
      "Kaemisyol"
    ],
    "places": [
      "Vusokaar",
      "Eastern Silgolt"
    ],
    "polities": [
      "Empire of Revakgol"
    ],
    "related_events": [
      "Empire of Revakgol",
      "The Great Wyrm War",
      "Revakgol Consolidation Wars"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {
    "authority": "proposed",
    "grounds_in": [
      "canon/json/history/characters/zelguu_kairtis.json",
      "canon/json/military_conflicts/great_wyrm_war.json",
      "canon/json/history/events/revakgol_consolidation_wars.json"
    ]
  },
  "subtype": "third_age",
  "summary": "After Kaemisyol\u2019s death, Revakgol enters a prolonged succession crisis: a Dovaarein-led regency in Vusokaar contests a northern Zegtuzsos-leaning counter-court while outer garrisons thin. The empire splits in practice, shrinks at the edges, and only reunifies through the later Consolidation Wars \u2014 at the cost of a harder caste doctrine.",
  "tags": [
    "proposed",
    "revakgol",
    "succession",
    "split",
    "shrink"
  ],
  "timeline": {
    "year_end_AZN": 1699,
    "year_end_MV": 6299,
    "year_start_AZN": 1427,
    "year_start_MV": 6027
  },
  "type": "event"
}