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The PCP forces struggled to make much headway because of the unusually severe Harmattan season and subsequent rainy season around the south of Shakar that caused armour to get stuck in slimy and thick mud. The terrible weather lasted for a few months. This was accompanied by a locust plague and a blight of disease that attacked crops in the provinces of Ashura, causing a famine in the centre of the country that led to widespread civil unrest. The Carriers co-opted the protests and riots through infiltrating and supporting anti-PCP groups in Ashura. They used guerilla tactics such as ambushes, sabotage, assassinations and kidnapping to bring down the government in Ashura.
Despite the decade's long campaign against Paxism, Ashura remained a stronghold of the religion. Amhoud Bedon had his son, [[Namdun III|Namdun Bedon]], married the daughter of the exiled Supreme Magister and head of Paxism, [[Mebri|Mebri Mudawaheen]]. This marriage consecrated a political alliance between the Bedonite and Mudawaheen clans who enjoyed outsized influence in the Carriers and Magisterium respectively, that resulted in the Concordat between the Magisterium and the Carriers that saw the establishment of an alliance. The Magisterium yoked its forces and wealth to the Carriers. The Carriers vowed to restore the nobility of Packilvania and protect private property which saw the wealthy upper class of Packilvania who had left the country donate enormous sums of money and materiel to the Carriers.
This accumulation of resources resulted in the Carriers launching a conventional invasion of Ashura that saw the province fall to the Carriers after many years of fighting. Securing the holy cities of [[Adrien]] and [[Akas Aki]] was an important goal for the Carriers because of the immense symbolic value that these cities held in the hearts of Paxists.
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