Obradinian Revolution

The Obradinian Revolution, also known as the March on Obratograz, was a spontaneous rising by Obradinian workers and peasants in the wake of the mass unemployment and religious tensions following the Third Kostenian War. During the revolution the empires capital, Obratograz, was captured by revolutionaries. The capture of the empire captured led to further uprisings around the empire and culminated in the Obradinian civil war. The revolution fundementally changed both the Obradinian empire and the continent of Velizka as a whole, leading to a number of copy cat revolutions.

The focal point of the revolution was a rising staged by the Obradinian Federation of Trade Unions on the 16th of May 1910. However the revolution had began on the 15th following the seizure of the town of Obrava by armed peasants under the command of Danijal Varisk, an Orthodox priest and veteran of the Third Kostenian war. The combined forces of the peasant army and the armed trade unionists was enough to capture the city, and the royal palace was subsequently razed. The emperor and his family had slipped out of the city during the early hours of the morning on the 17th.

Word of the capitals capture quickly spread throughout the empire, causing further uprisings in other major cities and areas of religiois dissidence. The front lines of the quickly ramping up civil war solidifed along religious and political lines. Socialists, regionalists and Orthodox Kvazists versus royalists and Oriental Kvazists.

The revolution marked the culmination of a number of social issues facing the empire at the time. Industrialisation, mounting calls for political and land reform, economic turmoil due to the Third Kostenian war and the on going religious schism between the Orthodox and mainstream Oriental Kvazists were all contributing factors to the outbreak of the revolution. Another notable aspect of the revolution was the coalescence of the empires two primary opposition movements, the Labourists and the Kâtyrin. The two movement had been suspicious of eachother, and sometimes in open conflict. However their abvility to unite following the capture of Obratograz marked an immense change in the politics of the empire.