Theft of a Kingdom

Political event

The Province of Suilley crowned its Lord-Governor, Ghienvais Pas, as Ghienvais I, King of Suilley. Essentially the gesture was intended by the Suilleyn nobility to commence the formal process of being treated as equals of the nobility in Foere. They were no doubt influenced by the disorder in the provinces on the Isle of Princes, seeing an opportunity to improve their own status, but only a very few seem to have anticipated how badly the Overking, pressed on all sides, would consider the coronation as a threat to his own authority in a vital part of the empire.   Instead of considering the essentially loyalist nature of the Sulleyn coronation, the Overking declared all the nobles anathema, traitors who would be stripped of their lands and executed when captured. The shocked nobles of Suilley suddenly realized that they now had no choice if they wished to live other than to escape entirely from the Overking’s rule. Perhaps matters might have gone differently if the Overking’s army had subdued the province quickly, but the course of the short war reversed all expectations when the Foerdewaith army was crushed at the Battle of Bullock’s Bale. With the great province of Suilley thrown into the status of an independent realm in the midst of war and rebellion on all sides, the shape of events in the provinces was utterly and irrevocably changed. A new player had been forced to join the game, and the new player, the King of Suilley, stood in a strategic position at the geographic center of the provinces.