Banishing, The
The Banishing was demanded by a special clause of the Inebi Armistice (not originally mentioned in the prior Inebi Treaty) in the immediate aftermath of the War of the Six and the Plague of the Bitter Hand.
It decreed that no further summoning of Azgorach could occur after the 43rd Day of the Season of Ripening 989AC, under penalty of prosecution, and moreover that all currently present on Icalar should return to their homeworld or be hunted down and killed. Those returning willingly were instructed to do so by the 75th Day of the Season of Ripening 989AC (i.e., at the end of the season in which the Armistice was ratified this extended window was mostly due to the difficulty of pressing warlocks into service to re-open portals to Azgorach.
In reality, the vast majority of the Azgorach Horde ended up retaliating against the decree due to their lesser intelligence -- frequently considered a deliberate 'oversight' -- and were slaughtered within the first few days of its announcement. Those who then chose to retreat did so within the first week of the decree, and there were only a small handful of later returns. This meant that for ease of historical reference, the precise 'date' of the Banishing was commonly noted as the 50th Day of the Season of Ripening, 989AC.
An additional small handful managed to escape the hunts that followed, largely due to imprecise record-keeping on the part of the Violet Accord. This meant that in subsequent years the occasional Azgorach was discovered, hunted, and dispatched, or seen in the company of a warlock that had retreated underground post-war. A notable escapee was Xa'aroch, though some believed him to have returned to Azgorach in secret to avoid being a public spectacle.
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