After The First Great Turbulence, northern Achenia was in chaos. Little access to already slim natural resources and mass destruction of infastructure had led to famine and a lack of shelter. Local government had dissolved. Survivors formed a series of clans, which fought each other in dozens of skirmishes over the course of twenty-two years, prior to the arrival of the Currglassites in 22 FC. This period of conflict was known as the War of the Shattered Plate, even though it consisted of many smaller conflicts between differing groups.