War of Blazing Winds

During the fallout of their defeat in the Fourth Narean War, many Nareans relocated to Rasa. In the year 3241 of the Age of Telvimbror, they came upon the Sea of Fire and met with the fire dwarves of the magical city of Crys-Flagh. The two peoples mingled well, and the refugee Nareans shared the city with their spiritual kin. Crys-Flagh was blessed by Meshvara and Flariok-Censha, and so Caiye and her people were welcomed there.
The vin’are had grown quite weary of the continued rebellion of the Nareans, so the current Highlord of Veradorianis, Senethil Sil’gamis gave the sal’are of Rasa an ultimatum: turn over the refugees or trade with the vin’are and allied elvish nations would cease. Not willing to lose such valuable imports, the sal’are began a sweep of Rasa. It didn’t take them long to come to Crys-Flagh and demand surrender, but seeing the Nareans as blessed beings like themselves, the brongura would not turn their friends over. After failed diplomacy, the sal’are returned to their oasis city of Ia’sal.
Knowing that they were outnumbered, the brongura and the Nareans began to plot how to defend against the sal’are with elements that they could not withstand. They determined to summon elementals from the Plane of Fire to aid them in the defense of their blessed city. Flariok-Censha answered the prayer and indeed sent mighty creatures to aid them, including magmin, phoelarchs, and the ifreet.
Seeing that this far superior power would be leveled against the sal’are by a god, Dommah Rae deemed the battle unfair and, having few elemental connections of his own, asked his mother for aid in defending his people. Skiana acquiesced, and great air creatures, including the djinn, and even the Four Winds themselves came to the aid of the sal’are.
A brief but terrible conflict ensued, now referred to as the War of Blazing Winds. There was no true victor because the sal’are lost so many on the battlefield, as did the Nareans. The sal’are only managed to capture a handful of Nareans for the vin’are. These prisoners told Senethil Sil’gamis that they were the only survivors, and he believed them. The trade with the sal’are was continued, but the sal’are harbored a deep grudge against the vin’are for forcing them to start the war that continues to this day. The Nareans and the sal’are hold one another not as friends, but as co-inhabitants. Over the millennia, they have grown closer, and anti-high elf sentiment is high in Rasa. (They see Veradorianis as overreaching and instigating.)
Most of the elementals returned to their planes, but the multitudes of djinn and ifreet had never seen a place so like home before, and most wanted to stay and live like they once had in this new, open land. This was short-lived, for having seen the damage the jann could cause, the wizards of Rasa captured all they could and imprisoned them in enchanted brass lamps. (The lamps that imprisoned the ifreet were all scorched black in the struggle.)
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