Upon the signing of the Pillars of Mandate on 1 January, 1801 by Hegemon Kagan Gahaeiy in front of King Rekai V, there was immediate, violent resistance from several former provinces of the Kingdom of Felchaiia. Declaring themselves independent states, Gahaeiy turned to the people of the new Imperial Felchah for their next course of action. His question was simple: "Do you want freedom?" Among the rebels were Fachei and Hajemi Provinces, powerful and controlling states that had always been staunch supporters of the kingdom's bloodlines. Convincing the people to rise up against what had been some of the prides of Felchah would be hard, Gahaeiy reasoned, and he expected to lose those provinces permanently and have to try establishing a peace with them. Instead, he got a resounding agreement.

For the next five years, Imperial Felchah would fight a series of wars against itself which would become known collectively as the People's War, or Ie San va Kiea. Emerging victorious following the invasion of Tamekani, capital of Fachei, the imperialists sought to rid Felchah of the royalists. Beginning a long series of hunts, hundreds of political, military, and civilian icons would be brought before the Miagsregh Council to stand trial. Widely publicised, many individuals and their followers discreetly escaped northwest to the Anagol Islands, a small chain of islands south of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. With the Treaty of Anagolī in 1755 made with the An'aga people, which Gahaeiy would continue to honour, only a small force would be allowed into the islands at a time and under complete supervision of the An'aga. Reeling from five years of conflict, the Miagsregh decided the hunt had to stop and that they would leave the rebels in the Anagols, vying for a partial blockade to the northeast and a tighter monitor on who travelled there.

Natives would occasionally speak about the 'outsiders in the mountains', but over time these stories evolved into urban legend as evidence came up short and the Anagol Islands fell out of the focus of Felchan geopolitics. By the time of World War I, the Anagol Islands had stayed largely silent on matters concerning the mainland. However, the conflict saw the construction of Jaxai Imperial Naval Base in Av Iyaj Maku as part of a bid to strengthen Felchah's naval control in the surrounding waters and partnership with the Kingdom of Hawai'i and the United States. This was made in agreement with the An'aga who saw it as mutual defence. In favour of strategic positioning, Jaxai was moved to Enven Lai, a largely uninhabited island part of the Anagolei, in 1933. With the old Jaxai made into a small Imperial Marines outpost, stories of people in the mountains came to the attention of the more superstitious of the soldiers. By this time, these were told fully as legends, but a small expedition was made regardless. On 3 March, 1934, an ice mummy was found twenty metres below the summit of Haueka'anani, the central shield volcano of Anagolī. Wearing the tattered remains of a XIX century Royal Army uniform, the Miagsregh announced to the public that "the last remaining rebels of the People's War had long ago succumbed to the treacherous elements of the Anagol Islands".

With this apparent historic confirmation of the Hegemony's final victory, the Anagol Islands once again fell to the wayside of Felchah's scope. World War II saw heavy use of Jaxai Imperial Naval Base and the Cascadian island of Levesque west of Anagolī, but with Felchah's heavy involvement in the war stories were ignored and the islands continued on in the wayside of history. In 1947, the An'aga elders voted on a proposal by Hegemon Faranencia Zorvak to become a protectorate of the Hegemony as a part of the Felchan Outlying Territories. With the promise that they would still hold provincial control, the An'aga agreed and on 23 December, 1947, the Province of An'aga was established.

On 17 July, 1954, Felchan Overseas Air Service Airspeed Ambassador Jewel of Argai, suffering engine trouble, disappeared into the Ueuea Forest in the north of Anagolī carrying forty-seven passengers. After a short search, it was found that the plane had crashed through what looked like the remnants of a small village. Normally, this would have ended up as a public apology to the people of the An'aga Province and would be brushed away, but the village intrigued the forensics specialists deployed to the site. The buildings were old, abandoned, and of Western design. With some more digging, a mass grave was found near the village containing the remains of sixteen people. Identified as Felchan in origin, the site would become an object of fascination to historians. But, seeing the finds as relics of a time long past, they were studied and moved on from. The Anagols went silent once again.

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