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In early June 2020, a dispute arose between a controversial player named RainofPain125RainOfPain125 and the Norlish government. RaineRain had recently been forced out of the IWW after political disputes there resulted in his loss of power. He moved to the far north of Norlund and established a settlement called Paris. An argument broke out between RaineRain and King Shamus during a visit, which resulted in the king pearling RaineRain. The pearling divided the nation as arguments began about whether it was a legal and acceptable action. King Shamus and his supporters claimed that the pearling was due to Raine threatening to bounty the king. His detractors argued that Shamus pearled RaineRain to collect a bounty issued by another nation or to just simply remove an undesirable player from Norlund. While RaineRain was widely considered to be a controversial figure, his pearling raised concerns about the legal precedent established by the extrajudicial pearling of Norlish citizens. Charges were eventually pressed against King Shamus for his actions which directly led to the Ansgar Secession.

On June 4th, in response to the charges brought against King Shamus during the RaineRain Incident; his home canton of Ansgar seceded. Along with Ansgar, the rebels also claimed other Norlish territory including the capital in Kannin. Worse still, as former monarch of Norlund, Shamus had been entrusted with many of the kingdom's namelayers. In order to avoid outright civil war, the Norlish government accepted the Ansgar rebellion but resisted attempts to also take Kannin. The Ansgar rebels claimed they had developed a significant amount of Kannin through the efforts of Sirboss and so it was deservedly theirs. The Norlish government held firm that Kannin was both the founding heart and political capital of the nation. After terse negotiations, the rebels agreed to give up their claims on Kannin and return the national namelayers. Following the recent loss of Terry and the struggles of the Ansgar Rebellion, discontent with the monarchy resulted in its temporary abolishment and the establishment of the short lived Republic of Norlund. Ansgar would go on to join the Kingdom of Yggdrasil and remain a point of contention between the two nations for some time.

Paris was a Canton of Norlund, barely, ruled by RainofPain125RainOfPain125, athe founder of IWW, and a controversial figure of not only Norlund's history, but server-wide history. Before the events that led to his pearling by King Shamus the First, the channel dedicated to Paris was mainly just posts from Rain supporting their ideologicalAnarchist beliefsideology, and the occasional debate between other Norlish citizens. While entertained during Terry's reign out of fear of IWW's possible retaliation, during the new government, Paris was one of the many cantons under fire for being unable to come up with the minimum number to be able to sustain a canton, and was eventually removed from cantonal status, which then sparked the conflict between Rain and the new government, eventually ending by them being pearled by Shamus.