The Great War of Men & Dwarves

Military: War

The Great War of Men and Dwarves was instigated by King Hal Haab in retaliation for the The House of Blorsa limiting resources to the Men of the Capital Islands of Hal Haab.   Comprising of several battles and conflict across one hundred years, the war would end up with the death of King Hal Haab, and the decline of Men as a power in the Stretches.

In the year 64900, absent of his two sons, Prince Uda Haab and Prince Hea Haab, King Hal Haab believed it was necessary to conduct a war with the The House of Blorsa based on the larger island in the The Royal Islands of Hal Haab.   The Dwarves controlled the majority of the food, wood, and mining supplies and in 64890 decided to limit the access Men had to those resources. Their population and technology was reliant on those resources; this was due to the fact that earlier in history, King Hal Haab thought it essential that dwarves inhabit the islands and produce the resources to counteract the negative effects of the Blood Magic Technique had on Men fertility.   At the time, Men were a mostly seafaring peoples, with the majority of the population not based on the islands themselves, but on the small islands off the coasts of the Capital Island's of Hal Haab. Calling back his vast fleets, King Hal established Fela Camp through the Port of Fele, and the Mustering Fields of Haad Huul through the Lela Docks. Taking ten years to muster this force, in 64,900, King Hal launched his attack on Haaled Hoose Fortress, the only settlement on the island that dwarves shared with Men, with a force of 8,000 Men.   The attack would result in the slaughter of 1500 dwarves with the death of 4000 men, half of King Hal's attacking force. Gaining the fortress at great loss, King Hal would use this fortress as his primary base of operations in the war.   The dwarves, led by the The House of Blorsa's leaders Lord Dihu Blorsa and Lady Litǎra Blorsa were protected on the island due to the Farms of Vaad situated on a high plateau, the plateau overseeing the highway that leads from Haaled Hoose Fortress to the Fields of Fanzan and Ka Fuste Village. Additionally, the only access to Ka Fuste Village and Blorsa Fortress was a fell fortified port.   The dwarves would muster a small fleet of extremely capable ships (out-matching Men vessels one-on-one), and a filed a large army setting up Keda Camp in the Fields of Fanzan. Additionally, Lady Snguhi Blorsa possessed the dragon Katatu aka. The dwarves knew that time was on their side as the Men could not keep their armies over the long-term; attrition would be their ally.   King Hal thought that they would have the people and resources for a prolonged conflict, but when he went asking for help from the Elven Kingdoms, he was met with responses of indifference or rejections of support. King Hal did not know it at the time, but the diadems that High-Queen Muzovwigǎ Ngoti Flinda Dinggǎ gifted the various elven kingdoms, were influencing the decisions of the elven monarchs through the High-Queen using The Diadem of High-Queen Muzovwigǎ Ngoti.     In the year 64910, King Hal would begin the Air & Land Battle of Ka Fuste Village. He would utilize his airships to attack Blorsa Fortress; he commanded 20 airships to pass over Ka fuste Village and the port and attack the houses and ships in port. Unknown to King Hal at the time, Lady Snguhi Blorsa had readied her dragon Katatu aka to intercept and destroy the airships. She would be supported by her mother, Lady Litǎra Blorsa, who led the fleet of the dwarves. When the airships came over Ka Fuste Village, they began to breathe fire across the roofs of the houses, and dropping troops close to the Farms of Vaad in an attempt to capture the farms.   Lord Dihu Blorsa was leading 2000 dwarven troops in the Farms of Vaad; his forces would slaughter the Men that made their way into the farms. Additionally, his wife would take down half of King Hal's airship fleet with her own fleet, utilising dwarven-made balista's attached to the bows of their ships. Nine of the other ten ships were blasted out of the sky by Katatu aka.   At the conclusion of the battle, all but one of King Hal's airship fleet were destroyed along with some 4,000 Men lives; additionally, 1,000 Men were killed in the Farms of Vaad. The dwarves would lose half of Ka Fuste Village, leaving 6,000 dwarves homeless; additionally, they would lose 2,000 troops on the ground and four of their twelve ships. Lady Litǎra Blorsa on her flag ship would be killed in this battle. Both Lady Snguhi Blorsa and Lord Dihu Blorsa would survive the battle. The Men would never be capable of mustering such an airship force again, instead relying on their navies and ground troops.