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The Xists was a political movement in early 16th century Ovancia. It originates from the political efforts of X. X saw that the oppresion and poverty among the populous as a national issue. Long story short, he was an egalitarian basically.

It was originally an intelligentsia movement, critiquing the gathering of wealth in the empire in Ovancia. The movement gained little ground in the Ovancian aristocracy. As X passed away in YEAR, Y and Z took lead in the movement. They decided to market it to the lower classes in society, to gain more following.

The populous was little interested in the movement, as the gross of the population in Ovancia was also pretty poor under the industrialization and high taxes of the in some aspects almost feudal ruling classes. This really contrasted with the colonies, which saw a more leader-by-merrit rather than leader-by-heritage system. Y, who was a former ambassador in GONE COLONY, took advantage of this with his NAME treaty, where the inefficiencies of the ruling class in Ovancia was dictated.

This gained much traction in small communities across the country, which sought to release pressure of the empire. From these people, Q came forward. Although poorly lettered, he was very passionate and charismatic leader. With the aide of Z, he managed to bring his ideas into written word, which was distributed over the continental empire. The NAME WORK discussed how, like Y mentioned, wealth was centred to only a small part of the empire; the ruling class, and especially the OLD CAPITAL CITY.

Meanwhile, Y continued his efforts in the colonies to try and let money also flow back a bit. [this, btw totally backfires and might be the last drip for all these independence wars].

As the Ovancia-Tilenno war progresses little, much unrest rises across the empire about the invincibility of the empire, and the divine power of the emperor. COLONY (Chezzetcook? Other unmentioned place) declares independence under R.

From here, the movement basically splits into two: the Qists and the independence-ists. The former later turns into an early socialist party (1800s, by 1850s a full blown socialist party based on ideas of P), the latter is like some anti-colonialist ideology.

Then, as the Grand Campaigns break out, the population gets upset at the ruling power for starting a war they don't wanna, which at some point causes a socialist protests (like most countries had in WWI, but bige). This is oppressed by the ruling class, which sparks a revolution. By the end, there is a sort of early soviet union style government with all kinds of socialist parties struggling for power. This is then won by G party, which plops off some of the regions as satellite states under the nomature of them having "self-determination" but not really.

characters

 * X is an egalitarian. Prolly based on someone from the 1789 French Revolution, as to give more ground for proto-socialist ideology.
 * Y is a former colonial ambassador, who turned the movement from an elitist stance to the masses. His ideal was for both continental and colonial citenzens to enjoy the same rights. In his view, the colonial holdings would be elevated to just straight part of country; no independence of these. We can maybe lean some of his inspiration from Multatuli?
 * Q is a peasant turned leader. His focus was only on the continental empire. He wanted to abolish the currently aristocratic ruling class, and decentralize the state away from OLD CAPITAL.
 * Z is an early leader. He aided Q ideas. I have no clue yet how to flavour him beside him being in early and being upper class.
 * R is some independence dude. He might die, just for cool.
 * P is an early socialist physolopist. Prolly !marx, but I dont recall the name we settled on.