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Established record
Kharveth attacks Noryndor on 29 December 1208. The western defensive line breaks in March 1212, and the capital’s central districts fall on 20 May. The government withdraws and seeks to represent the country abroad. The papers do not establish that every district is occupied or every military formation destroyed.
Government & wartime authority
Proposed constitution: voters elect a National Assembly for four years; its majority selects a premier. A ceremonial president, chosen by a joint session with provincial delegates, serves one seven-year term. Cabinet removal requires a confidence vote, while presidential misconduct goes to a constitutional court after legislative accusation. Provincial assemblies govern local revenue and relief. A national audit office checks appropriations, and the Assembly must renew emergency taxation annually. Exile preserves a recognized cabinet and overseas accounts but suspends ordinary elections only under a publicly recorded emergency statute.
Armed forces & sustainment
Proposed military: frontier divisions consist of three infantry brigades with a reserve artillery group. Rail-mobile troops reinforce threatened junctions, while northern patrol forces cover the long coastline. The 1212 collapse exposes dependence on a small number of inland routes. Exiled personnel reorganize as independent brigade groups with Allied weapons. Workshops specialize in cold-weather engines and transport repair. Medical officers establish reception camps to identify survivors and separate contagious illness from wound care. Training shifts from fixed-front defense toward mobile delaying operations.
Campaigns & the later war
Proposed continuation: coastal intelligence networks survive occupation and guide a 1227–1228 Allied return to northern anchorages. A 1229 inland offensive restores the capital’s transport connections before the cabinet returns. The rebuilt army contributes coastal security and convoy crews, allowing other Allies to concentrate on offensive operations.
The civilian experience
Proposed civilian history follows winter displacement, the evacuation of railway equipment and disputes over abandoned housing. Returning officials must reconcile exile service records with the experience of people who remained under occupation.
Proposed institutional history
Continuity after the capital is lost
The proposed parliamentary republic preserves a chain of cabinet responsibility after the loss of its capital. The ceremonial president can certify continuity and appoint a government able to retain the surviving Assembly’s confidence, but cannot convert the crisis into an independent military dictatorship. Records of parliamentary membership and lawful delegation become practical strategic assets.
Overseas recognition and Allied credit depend on knowing who may speak for the state. Military remnants require a recognized authority to issue pay, administer casualties and accept supply agreements. The exile government therefore devotes effort to paperwork that may look secondary beside combat but determines whether its forces remain national formations. Its legitimacy remains provisional where occupied citizens cannot participate, creating a postwar obligation to reopen representation rather than treat emergency continuity as a permanent exemption from elections.
National chronology
- Canon: Kharveth invasion
- Canon: capital falls
- Proposed: northern coastal return
- Proposed: cabinet returns