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The Reformationist-Serrian War was a series of conflicts fought between two major political parties in the vicinity of Chataigneraie, lasting from the start to the end of September 2019. Most players of high power in the region around Chataigneraie, particularly the female ones, had a play in the war, taking sides. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the century of the institute's existence, resulting in the toppling of the long reigning monarch, Serra, and replacing it with a larger Reformationist national assembly.

Although currently the war is on the side of the Reformationists, the Islan Thots are slowly growing their numbers and may soon bring the upper hand to the Kingdom of Serra, despite their already higher numbers being mostly a conscript force.

There are rumours that the Clout-Queen is attempting to recruit child soldiers from the year below her kingdom, yet they are still unconfirmed.

Prelude
Leading up to the civil war the Kingdom of Serra held a tight grip on the year, her harem at a healthy 10 strong and most major females siding with her, most importantly the Duchy of Isla, their greatest vassal which very often intermingled with Serrrian nobles. Her reign was one of mostly prosperity, yet sometimes tragedy as forces clashed in minor skirmishes near the Memorial Grove, sometimes considered sport.

Still, as all empires do, it slowly came crashing down with the large influx of migrants from foreign lands, quickly taking high positions that once fell to those loyal to her, ultimately weakening her grasp. The Reformationists, originally known as the Barony of Sien, did not swear fealty, yet maintained good terms with the kingdom, rarely were there even minor disputes.

The first wave of migrants shattered Serrian hierarchy, elevating the Barony of Sien higher as the kingdom sunk, but the second switched peaceful diplomacy to boiling tensions, the two finally being on equal footing.

Then, the third wave came, giving the Siennae the power to finally lash out and revolt, even accepting one of the migrants into their ranks and giving her a right-hand position to the Supreme Thot, who officially declared war.

Battle of the Hall
Soon after the declaration of war, the Reformationists (now rebranded as such) dealt a quick and decisive blow by honoring the new Right-Thot, Vanessa, in public in front of several Serrean followers at the Hall which began the first battle of the war. Even those in more minor nations, such as the Princedom of Mensa, the Followers of Bishop and the Geseur Hegemony were surprised and either remained neutral or took sides, even incurring splits in some of the smaller and less stable nations.

This congratulations of the Right-Thot and her granting of power caused the first Islan casualties as they gathered around and attempted to resist, yet were cut down by the hordes of contradictory arguments.

In response to the loss of life from her highest vassal, the Clout-Queen, despite not showing herself, sent the Thotmaster accompanied by her personal guard, the French Thots-To-Be to disperse the group, having mild success at making some of the smaller nations move away their people. This move saw the first Reformationist blood spilt, and the guarding Not-Quite-Thots were silently captured to present themselves in front of her Cloutness, sentencing them to execution.

After the other nations dismissed themselves or were dismissed by the Serrians the event ended and they went back to plan out their next moves.

Storming of Lauseum Tunnel
With the casualties from the Battle of the Hall being too high for the enemy's casualties in the Supreme Thot's opinion, she sent an army of Half-Thots to storm and sack the royal palace, but were met by the much more powerful Ecolin Empire who guarded the border ferociously, and when met with the obviously superior force, the Reformationists decided to fearlessly attack, yet were cut down, the army splitting and instead taking undefended Serrean land as the Ecolin were occupied by the other half of their force, taking the tunnel and killing half the Islan army in the process, as well as all other forts as they freed captive foreign criminals who were held there. They were eventually bested as the Serreans rallied at the Failed Communal, which is now their last remaining fortified territory.

Guerilla warfare and subterfuge
Being in a stalemate due to the Ecolin Empire guarding all land in between the two warring states, they both resorted to stealth and sabotage, interrupting caravans and burning neutral parties who wished to trade with each other to the dismay of the Geseur and Mensans.

Although this strategy was mostly successful, they were also not without loss, all the French Thots-To-Be rounded up with issue, the Reformationists taking 7 Half-Thot casualties in the process, cancelled and executed under the supervision of the Left-Thot Laila as well as the harem defecting as the kingdom and rebellion grew weaker.

No progress further than that has been made on either side on the sabotage front of the war, but Reformationist spies have found Islans growing in number in their last remaining territory, indicating towards a potential push from the Serreans despite the looming force of the Ecolin empire, and on the opposite side of the spectrum, Serrean spies have found an odd device called "lying" which may be able to sway the Ecolin away from their forces.