War of Bloody Shores

Only three months after the devastating Battle of the Dunes, a fleet of ships from Penrose and Grimvale sailed down opposite coasts, with the western fleet again making landfall south of Old Erytheia -- now abandoned -- and the eastern fleet landing at the mouths of the Calcelon and Sura rivers. Troops in the west laid waste to the village of Helmvere, which was largely a refugee camp filled with Old Erytheians who had fled the Battle of the Dunes. They were unsuccessful in their attempts to take the settlement of Drodkur, and made their way towards Uklon, where they were soundly defeated by the Convened Nomadic Tribes and were forced to retreat. The eastern troops attempted to penetrate the Forests of Pando and the Surassan Jungle, but the environments proved too treacherous and their inhabitants too determined to overcome. While the small settlement of Belia was destroyed, the cities of Mandir and Surassa were never invaded and the surviving troops retreated to their ships. As they departed, the troops which had landed at the mouth of the Sura River sailed west rather than east, and as a final, spiteful blow, decimated Shul's Temple on the Isle of Shul. Oral tradition in Prehn and historical records in Chalcedon both say that, in his rage at the deaths of his priesthood and the decimation of the temple and village built in his name, Shul unleashed his fury and caused the volcano, dormant since the Age of Fire, to erupt, turning the invaders' bodies to stone. Legend in Prehn holds that the Isle of Shul is still littered with the petrified remains of the invaders, as well as their spirits -- none venture there.

The Conflict

Prelude

Begun with the Battle of the Dunes.

Outcome

The settlements south of the Ridgefell Mountains were devastated, populations displaced, and progress halted.

Aftermath

The War of Bloody Shores was the first line in the sand between the settlements of the North and those of the South -- well, aside from the Ridgefell Mountains that literally separated them. This conflict began the idealogical divide that plagues the Primorian continent to this day, and sowed the seeds for the birth of the separate nation-states of Chalcedon and Prehn.

Conflict Type

War

Start Date

Turdas, 5th day of Last Seed, Year 25931 of the Age of Earth

Ending Date

Loredas, 23rd day of Sun's Dusk, Year 25931 of the Age of Earth

Conflict Result

The Northern settlements dealt a devastating blow to the settlements of the South.