Protectorate

The Protectorate of Commoncrown (better known as the Protectorate) was an independent faction that governed the Commoncrown Sovereign Region, formerly a part of the Grevalon city-state, between 1156 and 1150 BGY (with some areas remaining under rebel control until 1147 BGY). It was composed of followers of Soren Harding, founder of the Citizens Against Magic movement and vocal opponent of arcanum reactor development, arguing that it produced negative externalities in countryside regions, such as pollution, where they were often built. After the Nightwatch infiltrated their activist campaign, the Magelords effectively dismissed their petition. The disillusioned campaigners then established the Protector's Covenant, a council of social planners who founded Commoncrown in the un-magified Houblon area of southern Grevalon, thus creating an independent state known as Commoncrown which they ruled separately from the rest of the state. The furious ruling classes ordered them to stop their illegal act, but non-compliance of Commoncrown's peasant leaders led to a brutal 6-year civil war.

Initial successes, which even included the expansion of territory, were later reversed, and the Protectorate were defeated by 1150 BGY. By this point, almost all of its command structure had been killed/captured, and the Protector's Covenant formally surrendered in mid-1150. The more radical sects, including magophobes, refused to give in, and three of their leaders actually reformed the group under a new identity - the Resistance. The group, now more aligned with the Nightwatch than before, held out for another 3 years, until Grevalon Special Ops aligned with former Commoncrown nationalists broke up the remnants and imprisoned them in Magecrown.

Though the Protectorate lost the war, their demands were partially met.

Trivia

 * 'Protectorate' references one of the two sides of Summoners Rift in League of Legends.