Shadow War
If one were to ask which event has affected the Kingdom of Asturia the most in recent times, the answer would almost certainly be a unanimous one: The Shadow War. Historians of the Gazel Ministry say that the Kingdom has seen more turmoil in the five years following that war than it has since the Crown War nearly two hundred years prior. The upheaval caused by that conflict has reshaped Asturian views of the world, their place in it, and what lies beyond it.
The Conflict
Conditions
Some argue that the term “war” doesn’t accurately describe what happened in the North five years ago. The entirety of the war was fought and won within a single season. When the Dead shambled forth from beyond the mountains, they didn’t so much fight with the people it encountered as it did consume them. Legends have been told of the dead walking but until that time no one had ever seen it first-hand. There was no warning of their arrival. By the time resistance was mustered, the Dead had obliterated the village of Falyon on the northern borderlands, moved through the King’s Forest, and descended on to the Plains of Astur. Though the army moved slowly, it destroyed nearly everything it encountered.
Things were very grim for the Kingdom until emissaries of a strange race calling themselves the Luril appeared before the encampment of the King. They offered their aid against what they called “servants of the Devourer, their sworn enemy”. Desperate for a way to save his people, King Koreleth agreed. Bolstered by the newly-formed alliance, Asturia turned the tide and was able to defeat the Shadow Army. Victory ushered in a new age of both knowledge and dread for the people. For according to the Luril, that army was but a small fraction of the horrors that lay in the forests of the North. No one knew why it came in the first place and worse still, no one knew if it would return.
Conflict Type
War
Battlefield Type
Land
Start Date
1198
Ending Date
1198