Also heard as: Squiles
A kingdom ruled by King Stroth, publisher-city Conopimalis’s home nation and Rugby’s Roaming Gazette’s original base. Fights a long war on two fronts — orcs from the east under Gorthak, trolls pouring out of the Acatlalco mountains — loses that war, and is ultimately overrun and ruled by changelings. “Squiles” is included here defensively as a plausible Whisper-mangled spelling, though it has not been confirmed to appear in any transcript.
History
- Long-running land dispute with the Nayesche Orc tribe escalates into open war: the Nayesche sack Bostur City on “Bloody Tuesday,” beheading Duke Harrington 2019-04-09. See Bostur.
- A dragon escapes containment at the Isle of Torta and blasts a hole in King Stroth’s castle, freeing a second captive dragon; over half the castle is destroyed and 80% of the royal army is lost in the ensuing chaos 2019-04-09.
- King Stroth declares the kingdom’s first military draft in 90 years, the first since the War of the Falling Moon under his grandfather; draft-dodging is rumored to carry severe punishment 2019-04-22.
- Kafka, a major agricultural/potato-exporting hub, falls to Gorthak’s orcish army 2019-04-15.
- Trolls begin pouring out of the Acatlalco mountain ranges in large, slow-moving droves, reported independently by trappers in Totezatlan and Somic; King Stroth makes no public statement 2019-06-10.
- Open naval war breaks out with Binneth in the Howling Gulf; Squiyles fields a Wizard Special Forces air-naval unit under Captain Hoolihan, but Binneth’s “fire-breathing ship” secret weapon destroys nearly half the Squiylian fleet 2019-06-10, 2019-06-17, 2019-06-24.
- Mass civil unrest: citizens riot for peace with Gorthak, refugees fleeing north into Hawkthorne are turned away at the border, and a separatist uprising (pushing for a union of self-governing countries free of King Stroth) sees its leaders arrested for treason 2019-06-17.
- Trolls and orcs appear to be acting in loose coordination to divide contested land, ravaging farms in central Squiyles while orcs hold the east; food supply collapses kingdom-wide as most able-bodied men are drafted 2019-06-17, 2019-06-24.
- The entire country of Cacoal, part of Squiyles’ holdings, is overrun by doppelgangers and self-declares the “Changeling Nation”; King Stroth makes no statement 2019-07-15.
- The kingdom falls entirely: by JUNE 1 4885, Squiyles has collapsed, its territory is being redivided by the Eastern and Western Territories’ squabbling noble militias, changelings have taken over the majority of its former land, and Rugby’s Gazette is forced to relocate its headquarters to Stogath 2019-10-07.
- Post-collapse, the changeling government hosts an international peace summit in the former Squiylian capital, which ends in chaos when changeling delegates are revealed to have infiltrated the conference disguised as other nations’ diplomats 2022-12-18, 2022-12-26. See The Changeling Nation.
Unresolved
Whisper transcription elsewhere in this wiki has not been confirmed to use the spelling “Squiles” for this kingdom; the alias is recorded defensively per the Gazette merge’s own instructions, not because it has been observed in a transcript.