Winter Rebellion

The Winter Rebellion is a conflict which occurred in what is known to be the harshest winter in living memory. It began when many in the sea town of Helldon decided to rebel against the Salvorian Government there when they executed a pair of Assassins who tried murdering the Commander of the Salvorian Legion.

Ultimately the Rebellion freed Helldon from the Salvorians but it left the town ungoverned and untamed. The Empire was reluctant to take Helldon due to the tensions with the Savlorians. Due to this complication Helldon swiftly became a Pirate Town.

Founding of the Rebellion
The Winter Rebellion has no set founding, but was slowly build up over a decade. The Salvorians were given Helldon when The Empire signed a Peace Treaty with the Salvorians at the end of The War for the West, the Treaty was later known as the District Concordant. Originally there were several secret organisations who planned to dethrone the Salvorian rule in Helldon, but they were pulled into one major secret entity by Garad Ironheart.

First Assaults
Garad planned to wait till Spring to make an assault on the Salvorian Forts, but when Winter was announced Garad and his forces were forced out of secrecy by an unknown turncloak. Their base was attacked and burnt. Knowing he would most likely fail he and his forces went into immediate action and took 3 of the 5 forts surrounding Helldon. The Salvorian forces after weeks of attempts retook one of the three.

Unexpectedly the people around Helldon had seen how quickly Garad's men had taken the forts, so on the 5th week into the Winter 4000 men joined Garad's army.

Attack on West Reach
The most bloodiest part of the Rebellion came when Garad tried taking the 2 Coastal Forts on ether side of Helldon. He spent 3 months repeatedly attacking the Forts. Eventually he did take the forts but to a significant loss to his forces. By now the Salvorian Forces in Arramar had sunk to less than even Garad's army. However they had Helldon. It was said how often Garad openly cursed the builders of Helldon for making it such a strategically perfect place to defend, or in his case, a strategically impossible place to attack.

Bombing of the Salvorian Barracks
Now Helldon was surrounded by Rebel Forces, but the Commander in Helldon was not phased or scared by this. Helldon was known as the strongest forts in the entire continent. And the Commander openly voiced that fact in a speech to the crowds in Helldon.

It was on the 9th Week in Winter that the end of the War came. On the first day the Commander was killed during a speech, Garad's best men had snuck into the Town through the Traders and set the Explosives loose. The entire Salvorian Barracks had been obliterated leaving a massive crater in the Town.

On the second day Garad's army sacked the city and destroyed the last Salvorian men in the Town.

In the aftermath of the Rebellion, Garad tried to create order within Helldon, he sent countless letters to The Empire asking for help, but they refused every time. The Empire did not want to risk another war with the Salvorians after they lost their entire hold on Feandor.

Legacy

After a decade of struggle in Helldon, Garad was eventually killed when a rogue arrow hit in in the streets. By the time of his death Helldon had already sunk into a state of piracy, it had no government or any infrastructure. The Empire even in the present day has no plans or influence in the Town.