Duchairn Coup

Duchairn Coup is the projected name of the coup led by Treasurer General Rhobair Duchairn and Captain-General Allayn Maigwair against Grand Inquisitor Zhaspahr Clyntahn.

The coup was a collaborative effort between Duchairn's allies in the Church and the Fist of Kau-Yung terrorist organisation, which murdered three quarters of Wyllym Rayno's senior personnel on the morning of the coup to prevent them assisting Rayno and which used pamplets to rouse the citizens of Zion to rise against Clyntahn.

The mob seized every agent inquisitor they could and marched on the Temple, supported by the Army of God and sections of the Temple Guard supported the coup. Some Temple Guardsmen opened the Guard arsenals and distributed weapons to the mob. Others led rioters into municipal and Church buildings. Many of the Guard remained loyal, but were unprepared to fight the conspirators. Duchairn and his supposedly Clyntahn-loyal bodyguard Major Phandys occupied the Treasury and seized control of the semaphore office and the dock master’s offices.

Army troops under Maigwair's personal command beseiged and attacked St. Thyrmyn Prison, a major Inquisition facility, in order to prevent its personnel from aiding the Temple.

Bishop Militant Dynnys Kradahck, the commanding officer of the Holy Martyrs Training Camp, the main Army of God training facility twenty-two miles from the City of Zion, brought more Army troops into Zion on Maigwair's orders. Ironically, it seems that the coup only succeeded because, by coincidence, those in Maigwair's inner circle who were actually loyal to Clyntahn were all murdered by the Fist during a meeting in which they plotted to depose Maigwair on Clyntahn's orders.

Clyntahn was arrested by Charisian agents while attempting to escape. During his capture, he murdered Rayno for attempting to surrender. Clyntahn was later executed. After the coup, Duchairn was named Grand Vicar, sued for peace with Charis and declared the Church of Charis to never have been heretical.