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The Gleigos Severance

When the continants of Galactus were first created, Gleigos and Crisel were joined together as one continent. On this continent, known only as Crisel, many folk lived together peacefully. However, shortly before the Vanishing, this balance was upset, throwing the landmass into chaos.

The Trigger

On the morning of the 27th of Third Spring in BV 178, alarm bells rang out across the dawn quiet in the city of Iassus in Crisel. Their lord, Chares, had been assassinated. Quickly assuming that the culprit was a political rival from a city to the north, Pelanes, the remaining leaders in Iassus assembled a small force, about 100 soldiers, to travel to Pelanes across the Deineira, a wide river which bisected the continent. The task of this company was to demand from Pelanes payment for their crime. The battalion never made it to Pelanes, however. According to the single scout who escaped and returned to Iassus, the company had been attacked by Pelanian soldiers who had been waiting to ambush them. The soldiers who did not return had been either killed or taken as prisoners.

Escalation

Since this was a blatant declaration of war, Iassus assembled its entire army to attack Pelanes. Crossing the Deineira, the Iassuan army entered Pelanes in the night on the first of First Summer. The battle was short-lived, as the Iassuan army found almost no resistance and quickly took control over the city. The Pelanian army, meanwhile, was marching south to Iassus, where they believed they would find their missing battalion, who had vanished on patrol the same day that the Iassuan battalion was destroyed.

A Long, Bloody Conflict

The war between Pelanes and Iassus lasted for seasons upon seasons. Both cities believed the other had done them wrong, and neither would concede to anything. Eventually, other cities became involved, until the entire continent of Crisel was ravaged by war. Floods of civilians fled from the continent, seeking new lives in more peaceful kingdoms.

After several years in which neither side gained anything, and neither had come any closer to finding answers as to why any of this occurred or who began it. Finally, in BV 167, some of the kingdoms across the ocean had had enough, and sent an allied force to try to put a stop to it. Strangely enough, however, rather than managing to cease the conflict, the allied forces were dragged into battle, taking each side indiscriminately. The war raged on, larger and more devastating than before.

Divine Intervention

It was BV 160, and the war had lasted for 18 years without a single ceasefire. Even the deities were fed up with watching the constant battling. While they generally did their best not to interfere with mortal affairs, at this point it was obvious that nothing would resolve itself with time. At first, they simply tried to reason with both sides. While this worked temporarily, eventually another group of soldiers would turn up dead and the fighting would resume with more fervor than before. When this did not work, the deities tried to force the leadership of Pelanes and Iassus to have peaceful negotiations, but both sides did nothing but accuse one another of wrongdoing, and each adamantly refused to admit to the other's accusations.

Frustrated by the other deities' failures at peacemaking and their avoidance of drastic measures, Xonnir and Pyara took action. Striding to the center of the continent, right over the Deineira, Xonnir stood and faced the battle. In his thundrous voice, with lightning crackling in his eyes and through his hair, Xonnir gave the mortals a final warning. They were to return to the side of the river they belonged on, or Xonnir would do it for them. Those who could hear him scrambled quickly to obey. When it was clear no more soldiers would move, Xonnir raised his iron rod high into the air. With the wrath of a thousand stormclouds, Xonnir brought it down, deep into the earth. The ground shook, and with an earsplitting shriek, split. The gash in the earth ran along the riverbed and all the way to the ocean in the east and west, breaking Crisel in two. As the new continents began to move further from one another, Pyara sent the ocean rushing along the crack until the entire length was filled with cold saltwater. She shifted the Northern Ocean to push the two continents further from one another, stopping when each side was only a thick line on the horizon for the other. Leaving the mortals in stunned silence, the two deities descended into the new strait and vanished into the depths.

Peacemaking

After this display, the combatants were more than happy to stop battling. On the 13th of Second Fall, BV 160, Pelanes and Iassus, now separated by some distance, signed a peace treaty which prevented either from taking action against the other for some time. Of course, neither admitted to the other's accusations, but they still managed to drop their aggression. For centuries afterward, tensions were high between the two citys but neither dared to defy the will of the deities by initiating violence. The northern half of Crisel became known as Gleigos and the two remain separated by the Deineira Strait.

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