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<h3>3004 — Revolution in Xurno</h3>
<h4>Revaudo</h4>
A top-down militarization of society had been the weapon of <b>Xurno</b> against the nomads. Now the barbarian peril was less, but the militarization remained. The army had the right to levy and collect taxes for its own support; somehow its needs were increased even as the empire shrank (Bolon was lost to the Seia circa 2900, while Čeiy, Ciqay, and Sevisor were all expanding at Xurno’s expense).
<p>It was a curious time, perhaps, for a religious revival to break out. Its leaders, who began their preaching at the turn of the century, called for <b><i><a href="Javascript:parent.updir('endajue.htm#Revaudo')";>Revaudo</a></b></i><i>,</i> ‘newness,’ meaning a rededication to understanding and emulating the Greater Principle and the Path Between. These statements of the basic orthodox Endajué faith were naturally taken as highly inflammatory and subversive, for the hidden message was that the existing system was not faithful to the Principle, and the Nyei’s tyranny was that most egregious of errors, an extreme.
<p>The Nyei, Imdax IV, was in a difficult situation: he longed to suppress Revaudo, but it was popular with the people, and supported by the lower ranks of the established clergy. When the Revaudo <i>dzuséy</i> began to preach nonviolent resistance to the state, including the nonpayment of taxes, he decided he had to act; he ordered their imprisonment (2984).
<p>In most of the realm his orders were carried out; but in many places, including Rajjay and Gotanel, local governors declared that the <i>dzuséy</i> were under their protection. Within six months Xurno was plunged into civil war.
<p>The shading on the map represents the areas in rebellion twenty years into the war. By this time the rebellion has spread to Tanel and the upper Xengi and to the cities of Nakan and Momor, and a Revaudo revolution has overthrown the previously loyalist government of the Šinku, the Xengi delta.
<p>It is no coincidence that the rebellion was concentrated in the eastern provinces. Here, resentment over taxes and tyranny was especially high; in the west, directly facing the barbarians, the need for defense was more obvious. Rajjay joined the rebellion for political reasons; its governor saw in Revaudo the means to increase his own power.<font size=1><sup></sup></font><font size=1><sup></sup></font>The area of Revaudo influence does not precisely coincide with that of the rebellion. There are followers of Revaudo in loyalist areas— the capital, Curau, is a hotbed— and loyalists (<i>dzuni</i>) in rebel areas, particularly Rajjay. As the war continues, however, and mutual persecutions increase, those who are out of place will tend to flee or learn to conform.</sup></font></sup></font>
<h4>In the southeast</h4>
The southerners were completely defeated in the <b>Čeiyu</b> civil war (2963). The northerners were not vindictive; they ordered the War College to be moved to the north, and redrew the county boundaries to ensure themselves a majority in the Senate; but otherwise the focus was on reconciliation and reintegration. (One unity-building project was the exploitation of Xurnese troubles by invading Gotanel.) They also utilized the new technology of explosives to reduce the fortress of <b>Šušumbör </b>which was the basis of Bezuxau activity. Predictably, the angry <i>Bôsužumi</i> (followers of Bezu) mounted a wave of terrorism in revenge. With Šušumbör no longer inviolable, however, Bezuxau never again enjoyed the level of power and influence it had in its early days.
<p>Jippirim was liberated in 2986-88 by the <b>Tžuro</b> states of Dusila, Ičili, and Šurantal. This raised the question of how liberated Skouras (<i>Šura</i>) and its main city would be governed. The answer was a council of the three allies plus a representative of the restored <i>mafali</i> (senate) of Jippirim. Šurantal left the council when it refused to support a war with the Uṭandal (2993), and the next decade was occupied by the task of rolling back the Sainor from the Šinour valley, with the aid of a timely invasion by their coreligionists, the Lenani of the Ejiji Tej.
<p>The Tžuro state of <b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Jae%C5%A1im');">Jaešim</a></b> is at the height of its power; its ships now regularly trade as far as Uytai. As a consequence of this trade, they founded (2988) <b>Fananak</b> (‘New Feináe’), a colony on the southwestern coast of Arcél— anticipating the colonialism of the northern states by several centuries. This colony would have a colorful history, which is told in the <i><a href="Javascript:parent.atlas(1);">Historical Atlas of Arcél</a></i>.
<p>The disarray of the Sainor has freed the little kingdom of <b>Tei</b>, a remnant of the Čia-Ša people found here in ancient times. They have been Jippirasti for some centuries.
<h4>Elsewhere</h4>
<p>The occupation of Luduyn was proceeding easily for the <b>Gurdagor</b>, but a growing problem was the increasing discontent of their own countrymen. Since ancient times <a href="Javascript:parent.al('Gurdago');">Gurdago</a> had experimented with various forms of government, republican, monarchical, and now mixed; but liberties were for the city of Gurdago only— its possessions were always ruled with an iron hand from the center. If its subjects didn’t like it, they were far away. But now the discontented were descendents of Gurdagor, and near to hand, and starting to be mutinous. Swallowing hard, the city elders extended the franchise to all (wealthy enough males) of Gurdagor blood (2978).
<p>In Eretald, we see for the first time <b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Ben%C3%A9cia');">Benécia</a></b> (2988), the first explicitly Arašei state since the fall of Cuzei. Benécians tell glorious epics of the founding of their kingdom, which as they tell it extended over most of Barakhún. Barakhinei records mention nothing of it at all, which makes it more likely that the kingdom gradually found itself independent as it passed from the recognition of remote authorities.
<p>Barakhinei settlers, with military support, are settling the Žandar and Migoda valleys in the Western Wild.
<p><b>Dhekhnam</b> has almost entirely gobbled up Sarnáe. They took only slivers of Iosoandor and Mitigaoma, “for defensive reasons”. These states heeded the implicit warning not to get involved, but they knew they were next, and prepared their defenses as best they could.
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