Battle of Tchendor

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The Battle of Tchdor was the final phsyical conflict of the Valleyfold War.

Background

Leading to the Valleyfold War, people from the north states of Navoral were tired of the lack of prospects for individuals. Additionally, it was common for powerful arcane users from the north were sequestered to cities in the south where they would become soldiers within their armies. Eventually, the people of the north became known as the Tal'Vorak Rebels, named for the initial leader of the rebellions, Jara Tal'Vorak.
After around two years of rebellion, the Tal'Vorak Rebels started to be led by Holivar Bassoran after the unfortunate passing of Jara. Holivar was known to be a tactical commander and in the course of the next year or two, the rebels were able to "release" several prominent towns in the north of Navoral.

However, there was a contingent of the Navoral nobility who were extremely resistant to the actions of the rebels. This small collective became known as the "Verdance". These nobles were often powerful magic users or tacticians and would lead their own battalion of soldiers who would follow the banner of their noble arms. History often considered the worst of The Verdance to be Lady Trenya Galdreith. She was a powerful noble with a large battalion of soldiers and mages at her disposal. However, as the war went on, Lady Galdreith learned that her best form of defense was to sign an agreement with Mraz'zhoka, the demon lord of The Shiftweave. The empowered state of Lady Galdreith led to her batallion being comprised of soldiers and demonic infested bodies.

Battle

Tchendor Pass was a peaceful valley leading from the collection of northern towns through to the first major southern city. It was also the first sign that the rebels were wishing to make progress into the "southern" regions, despite the city still being north of the river that bisected the two sides of Navoral.
Holivar led a charge through the pass towards the entrenched Galdreith batallion. From there a battle broke out between the two sides. Holivar leading the charge and carving through the soldiers at the front of the pack. However, this was when Lady Galdreith unleashed a bastion of demons onto the crowd from the sides, invoking mass casualties on both sides of the conflict.

Eventually, Holivar came to blows with Lady Galdreith who attacked using a powerful blade made of strange demonic energy. After several strikes between the two, Holivar had Lady Galdreith on her knees, that's when Galdreith called upon her final gambit, summoning the physical form of Mraz'zhoka onto the mortal plane.
The demon rose from the middle of the pass and the entire region was influenced by the Shiftweave and imbued with an aura of prolific change. The entire pass became a smorgasbord of swiriling arcane biomes that infected many of the individuals. The pass seemed to shift between these different biomes and in some areas became an intense arid desert whilst others became an ocean of blood.

The battle ended when High King Dremnock Lasserknock of Terlas felled the demon and Holivar was able to defeat Lady Galdreith and capture her as a prisoner of war, depowering her magical capabilities using a consisent flow of powerful magic.

The Battle of Tchendor

Chronology

Previous	The Battle of Transa Field
Next	The Kerya Treaty

Battle Overview

Conflict	Valleyfold War
Date	Between 544 and ~568 AR, on 19 Shovenu
Location	Tchendor Run
Outcome	Tal'vorak Rebellion Victory Trenya Galdreith defeated and embarrased in combat. Mraz'zhoka banished to their home plane.

Combatants

Navoral Militia Mraz'zhoka's forces

Tal'vorak Rebellion Terlasian Forces

Commanders

Lady Trenya Galdreith Mraz'zhoka

Holivar Bassoran King Dremnock Lasserknock

Strength

Humanoid soldiers Demons

Humanoid rebels Dwarven soldiers Constructs

Casualties

Mraz'zhoka killed and returned to the Abyss Unspecified number of soldiers and demons are killed.

Unknown number of rebels and soldiers are killed.

Aftermath

Navoral

The Battle of Tchendor led to the peace accords which led to the separation of Navoral and Tal'vorak, mainly because the two sides could see the growing strength of the rebels and the need for the war to end fast. However, this also led to the severance between Navoral and the noble houses who made up the Verdance. This led to many of the younger people in these noble houses being caught and imprisoned and frozen out of their nobility and society as a whole. Navoral was able to recover their military strength and have since made strong ties with all the other nations within the continent as they moved to a life of trade and creation rather than the chaos and destruction that became a focus during the Valleyfold Wars.

Tal'vorak

After the Battle of Tchendor, Tal'vorak was finally able to collect enough support to approach the Navoral goverment with the aim of peace accords. After the acceptance of their proposal, Holivar Bassoran was allowed to plead the case of the people to the government. This resulted in the nation of Tal'vorak being formed and their people being free of any responsibility to Navoral. The nation has prospered and even over the generations has been able to reconcile and work alongside the people of Navoral. However, there is still an extremely strong distain for demonic creatures as an aftermath of the Battle.

Archani Conclave

Some arcane users from both sides of the battle found themselves surrounded by demonic creatures and seeing the incursion of a demon lord in Mraz'zhoka. As a result, Hymoth Tressle brought together several of the powerful mages to found the Archani Conclave. The Conclave were founded to halt these incursions, and seek out those who were making deals with these infernal creatures to ensure the safety of the mortal plane. However, to ensure that no one could interfere with the group, the mages decided to keep their existence a secret from those not involved with their missions.