PROTESTS GROW IN ESTMARK AS THEY MOVE INTO THEIR THIRD DAY
The Reckoning
4/6/2025, ESTBURY-- Initially considered to be a single day protest of locals expressing their disapproval of the Michleah's current ongoing investigation into election malpractice in the late Estbury election in March, the protests started on Monday evening continues to grow as we head into Day 3 of the protest. This evening, on Highfield Platch, protesters took to protesting right outside the capital building of the Estbury government still housing the current government. Though the situation remains stable according to reporters on the ground, police have been dispatched by the government to ensure the protests remain orderly and does not interfere with regular business.
The protests highlight a flashpoint of tensions between the government in Fayrrendel and Estmark's recent fraught relationship over their dissatisfaction with the current government, believing that the government is not doing enough to help the locals. This underlying friction couple with the current investigation has made Estbury a politically sense place in recent week, with the city sharply divided between loyalists to Fayrrendel and her government, and a rising separatist movement intent on overthrowing the regional government and establishing their own state. This divide has increasingly followed along ethnic lines. This comes despite recent investments in the region in the mining industry following the government's Nationalization Law. The protests seem to unlikely to die down until the end of the week and we will be updating this story as it develops.
