I just realized that several of my characters have done close to that. They preferred to just send the rich people a document declaring the secession of the city that we were based out of, from the larger kingdom. It was almost always because the king was involved in one war, and decided to start another one, and ordered magic users to the front lines.

Congratulations kingy, now you have 3 wars to deal with, and we just took a bunch of temples, and the wizards’ college with us.