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Hours before the final invasion, Qadir ships engaged the Regalian blockade on the Rim Isles, though there was something off about the battle. The Qadir ships were small, barely manned and mostly skirted around the Regalian battle lines, choosing not to directly engage them. As time passed, the Regalian ships formed clusters of defensive positions expecting a serious engagement, which simply never came. Drawing this out for nearly an hour, the Regalians became restless and still no movement came from the Qadir. This was until near simultaneous explosions lit up Regalian warship one by one. Like a massive orchestra of explosions ships started going up one by one, others catching fire or simply being blasted apart from the sheer violent explosions of the gunpowder storage of the other ships. The sky turned black from the smoke that was now towering its way to the clouds, as the Imperial battle fleet made its way to the bottom of the narrow sea. Seen from the shorelines of the Rim Isles, it was like a sea of fire floating in the distance, a yellow glow consuming the very strength of the Empire.
Around noon, the Imperial Capital had officially fallen to the Qadir, the locals chose not to further resist the invasion in fear of causing a bloodbath among the defenseless civilians, and the majority of the weapons and armories were rounded up and closed by the Qadir. The Regalian prison was broken open and all Qadir prisoners were immediately released with a heavy coin purse to boot. The Azure order tower was closed down and evacuated. The Imperial palace was closed, though the Qadir found little worth looting in there as the entire Imperial Administration had already emptied the halls. Various noble families found themselves ousted from the archipelago, several announcements were made and the people were informed that they were now the subject of the Qadir Pashah. The Pashah's second wife, Pashawa Esfihani Kinya Bireh was to become the city's official administrator in his name, and started issuing decrees when the Regalian Flags were still hanging from the citywalls.
The direct consequences of this invasion IC:
- The Qadir are now in control of the Imperial city. Qadir are elevated to first class citizens while Ailor become second class citizens along with Dwarves, Ch'ien-ji and Elves, and everything else loses citizenship rights.
- Slavery is declared legal in Regalia. Prisoners and criminals may be enslaved by the Qadir slavers.
- Kleinfolk are classified as rodents again, being banned from entering public buildings and banned from owning property in Regalia.
- The Orc pacifist law is lifted, though weapon ownership is still illegal in Regalia.
- The Kade family is declared outlaw and will be executed on sight.
- The prisoners who were lost at the battles in the Rim Isles are all released in Regalia proper. Ulric Typhonus is forced to sign a surrender treaty giving all the lands to the Qadir, though obviously nobody believes this document and most local administrations continue to ignore it. The Qadir are unable to press beyond the Imperial capital at this stage.
- Every noble family that has fled the city is declared outlaw and to be arrested on sight. Every noble family who has not fled is required to pledge loyalty to the Qadir trough letter to the Pashawa or face expulsion.
- Every non Qadir character can no longer leave or enter the Imperial City.
- The Azure Order is disbanded. Qadir may use magic freely and are not required to wear a collar. Any other race person that is magical must wear the collar, and if found using magic, is to be executed on sight (though the Azure order sight mages are gone now, so magic users wont be detected unless they cast in broad daylight in the street).
- The vast majority of the Orcs in the city is shipped off to slavery in the Qadir homeland (this will not affect PC characters, it just said that nearly 90% of the Orc population in Regalia was enslaved).
- The Qadir will re-shuffle the nobility of the Regalian Empire once they feel satisfied with the amount of pledges they have received.
- Shambala becomes the state religion. Unionism is still legal, but all houses for worship are closed and the Qadir start instructing reluctant priests and traitors to prolethize the belief that the Qadir Pashah is the true Imperial Spirit, which is the physical embodiment of the sun.
- Much of the Violet Order is replaced with Qadir, though the service continues to function in the city.
