The War of the Eight Realms

Military: War

Peace and prosperity cannot last forever. And for the Dwarnan Empire it would end in -449GE. A Creyder agent had somehow made it into the crowd of a Valley Station parade. He fired off two shots from two different pistols, in which one hit the Dwarnan God-Emperor in the shoulder. The assassin was apprehended by a guard. He was dragged through the realm gate to Nerfaya by several soldiers and hung by the 'Feltree'. Before the soldiers could make it home, thirteen Gatekeeper Union militiamen kill the Dwarnans.   The Mountain King launched massive propaganda campaigns to get as many volunteers as possible. Six-hundred thousand men rallied under the Dwarnan flag. They marched across the tundra and through the realm gate to Nerfaya.   Saying the Gatekeeper Union was underprepared is an understatement. Dwarnan soldiers swept through Gevena City, killing any opposition. Luckily Wilkes Taboth, the Creyder ambassador, managed to sneak past the soldiers and flee through the realm gate.   Two days after the Dwarnan occupation started, four-hundred thousand Creyder soldiers came to the aid of the Gatekeeper Union. The largest battle since since V-M-I Day ensued. The army of dwarves was forced out of Nerfaya and back into Valley Station. Sultan Alazin ordered his army to give chase out of sheer confidence.   The Dwarnans had faked their surrender in order to bait Alazin's men through the gate into a wall of pikes. The enemies kept pouring through, not knowing it was a trap. One-hundred thousand casualties were taken total.   The Archipelago Kingdoms soon got word of the war going on a few realms away. The council of kings voted to come to the aid of Dwarna, as they too are monarchists. After the formal declaration of war, the 300 Day Offensive began. Intense house-to-house combat began in Grendera City before a pyrrhic Archipelago Kingdom victory. The occupying forces looted and murdered for weeks on end before a new combatant entered the fray.   The Kingdom of Fey, being long-time allies of both nations in Creyder, had decided to intervene. Forty-thousand treefolk and elves marched through the realm gate and flanked Archipelago lines. They met up with resistance contacts and launched a guerilla-warfare campaign. After three-hundred days of war in Creyder, peace was finally within grasp.   With the Dwarnan Empire and Archipelago Kingdoms being deposed to their homelands, peace negotiations began. The Treaty of Ederton was held in the neutral Kingdom of Gradia. Nerfayan land was returned and the Dwarnans were forced to pay six-million gold by -2GE.