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Starting with the [[First Fratricide]] and [[Third Caroline War]], the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] entered a period of terminal decline in terms of influence over its members and the working of its core institutions. Despite the best efforts of the Imperial Court in [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]], members of the Empire were rapidly liberalizing and eschewing centralized power in favor of various levels of devolution outside of the Imperial power structure. This started with the [[Fiannria]]i White Revolution in [[1823]] when the Kingdom of Culfra was effectively dissolved and the Republic of Fiannria took its place. In the south, the [[Recess of the Julii]] continued as the [[Urcea|Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]] had acted autonomously of the Empire since the [[Second Caroline War]], dramatically reducing the resources and manpower available to the Empire. The Empire, and especially the [[Derian people|Derian]]s, tried to isolate Urcea in turn, and most of the Electors greatly resented the Urcean Crown since the [[War of the Caroline Succession]] temporarily stripped them of their authority in the later half of the 18th century. Urcea's conquest of Carolina and defeat of most of the [[Kingdom of Dericania]] in the [[Third Caroline War]] proved another body blow to the authority of the Empire and created a generation of veterans in Dericania who had been exposed to some of the [[Crown Liberalism]] ideas of the Urceans while captive as {{wp|prisoners of war}}. As a consequence of the Imperial Court in [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]], many Derians in the [[Kingdom of Dericania]] found themselves chafing under what Imperial authority remained, and particularly, the Derian bourgeois found that their Kingdom was falling behind the rest of the crumbling Empire in terms of liberalization. By the People’s Spring of [[1848]], formidable groups had formed in 15 states and formed their own protests, revolts, and organized labor actions. These were brutally suppressed by the Emperor, Louis XI.  

In the 1890s, the [[Red Interregnum]] broke out in [[Urcea]], and this destructive civil war lead to the Depression of 1900, which destabilized the Empire and lead to mass uprisings in the [[Kingdom of Dericania]]. It also renewed an enmity between [[Caphiria]] and [[Urcea]] that would be an important undercurrent for the conflict in [[Catholic Levantia]] to come. Members of the Empire, and eventually the Empire as a whole, intervened in the war on behalf of [[House de Weluta]] against the Crown Regency of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]], which sought, among other things, to have Urcea secede from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. FitzRex was replaced with the left wing short-lived [[Urcean Republic]], which created an ideal radical socialist state from which [[Derian people|Derian]] revolutionaries were inspired. With the de Welutas restored to the [[Julian Throne]], the [[Recess of the Julii]] came to an end, temporarily strengthening the Empire despite the severe economic depression and uprisings. During the conflict, there were isolated shooting incidents between the Levantines and Caphirians, who supported the Crown Regency. These skirmishes would prove to be a prelude to the coming conflict.

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