The Padoor Rebellion

The Padoor Rebellion (Olfkin: Ropelí Bádörai), also known as the Padoor War, was a rebellion (although some argue it is a civil war) that occured in Soigá between May 1891 and April 1892 (thus for nearly 2 full years). It was a bloody war fought between forces of King Hálámír and a combination of anti monarchist, Protestant, Firrobatist and other rebellious forces. It is the most lethal war that ever occured on Soigan ground, with around 130,000 deaths (or around 6% of the Soigan population at the time), plus many (permanently) wounded. The war is named after the leader of the rebels, Mensílúfes Bádör, although this has been a propaganda name made by the King's side, as they tried to portray Bádör as someone who was power hungry who wanted the throne, instead as some freedom fighter fighting for a bigger cause than himself alone.

Background
After the end of Spanish rule (1809-1842), the Soigan king was back in power over Soigá. However, whereas Soigá had entered a golden age in the first era of the Kingdom (1733 to 1809), the second era was plagued by various crisisses, famines & crop failures, loss of colonial territory and a drain of wealth. The ineptness of the Kings to deal with these issues together with various revolutions in other countries in Europe (for example in 1848) and manifestos (like Karl Marx's Das Kapital) caused a severe distrust and resentment towards the Kings. Although there had been a few serious uprisings, no real change could be brought to how the country was administrated. With the death of King Verdídölax in 1877 came a new king: King Hálámír. King Hálámír was an extremely conservative and zealous king: he believed minorities like Protestants, Firrobatists (which he argued to be the worst), Jews, Muslims and more had to be "destroyed". Although Hálámír's programs to diminish poverty and unemployement, and create better health sanitations proved to be succesful, his aggresive and sometimes violent and deathly way of making Soigá a "strong Catholic" country made him very unpopular with the minorities, and only fueled the republicans' and anti-monarchist's ambitions to get rid of the King and get a more democratic country.