Military action
Aundair moved aggressively, striking south along the shores of Lake Galifar.
Internal debate over Thalin’s Vision all but ceased when Aundairian forces quickly overran the least populated of Thrane’s territories—an area south of Passage to the Blackcaps and west from the lake to Ghalt. King Wrogar’s forces, under the command of Haldren ir’Brassek, even took Cragwar briefly. The Arcane Congress at Arcanix raised no objection to the Aundairian occupation, instead declaring itself a noncombatant. A hastily organized and weak counterstrike by Thrane recaptured Cragwar but was otherwise easily repulsed. This was but the first of countless battles that would bathe the land around Ghalt in blood.