Parcel War
the Capedian-Tinjin War
The Parcel War was a four-year war that broke out between the Tinjir city-states and the Capedian in 4518sc. The sea-trade nation of Old Capedo from mainland Novyum had been growing in power for the last two centuries, spreading across the Northern Reach's coast and the surrounding islands. With the islands between Tinjir and Novyum under their influence, the Capedian ships were moving into and through Tinjir waters for years before fighting started. The war's title comes from the fact that much of the war was fight on, and around, the islands of the Parcel Cluster.
Both sides record the start of the war differently, with Capedo claiming that the Tinjin attacked their vessels, thinking they were rivals in their endless civil wars, while the Tinjin claim Capedian aggression and invasion started the conflict. Whatever the case, the Parcel War went poorly for the divided Tinjin of the Parcels and the Thoamaine Peninsula. Though the warring tribes united to fight the invaders, their ancestral rivalries kept them from truly uniting as a cohesive army.
This led to the eventually need for the Lhakenwed to step in, see the Capedians as a clear threat should the Tinjin of the north fall. Lhakenwed soldiers and sailors leading their fellow Farland people in a series of victories, despite Capedian forces always having the numbers advantages. The equally famous Battle of Kronar and Battle of Drifis saw Tinjir victories at a heavy cost, but far heavier for the Capedians. Despite winning most of the battles fought, and sacking (sometimes razing) every city on the Thoamaine northern coast, those two battles devastated the Capedian army and navy, forcing the invaders to sue for peace.
In the aftermath the Lhakewed established itself with the wider world, Polis and Pampont become the dominant powers of the Farlands. The bitter fighting of the Parsel War was still fresh in the memories the Tinjin, but for the Capedians, “memory is in the past, profit is in the present,” as the old saying goes. Trade routes spread through the seas around Thoamaine. At first between Old Capedo territory and the Lhakenwed, but the Tinjin soon saw the profit in trade. Though neither culture trusted the other, their ships ported in each other’s harbors and goods flowed freely east and west. Despite fighting a war to keep the influence of Capedo out of their region, the Tinjin quickly adopted Capedian culture into their own. Capedo gained more influence over Thoamaine with cultural assimilation, as goods and ideas traded more freely, then they could ever hope to through war and conquest. The Lhakamen were prosperous with the cultural shift in the north, with less tribal wars in Thoamaine, the seas were safer for trade. Novyum philosophies and religions seeping into the region, as did dress and architecture. While the people of the Farlands were victorious in the Parcel War, one could say they lost their victory in the end as they old way vanished, and the new eastern way of life replaced it.
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