The Jamai War

== Overview ==
The Jamai war was a conflict fought in the Kärrosännæ from approximately 316-317 ABV between the kingdom of Rothrän and their Murrjadan allies against a coalition of tribes to the east. The war led to a significant expansion of the kingdom of Rothrän and the return of ancestral territories to Murrjadi, thus restoring the Murrjadan kingdom to its state just prior to the arrival of Galáspatri and the ensuing Galáspatran War.
Belligerants	Rothrän-Murrjadi Coalition 	Jamai-Ushjandäämi Coalition
Forces 	~10,000 (7,000 Rothränni, 3,000 Murrjandan)	~6,000
Losses 	~ 2-3,000 	~6,000
Outcome 	Victory 	Defeat
Consequences	 	
== Prelude ==
In the years following the War of the Mad King, the Jögae of Rothrän, Rejzamaziri, having demonstrated the kingdom's martial supremacy in the north, sought to expand the kingdom by convincing nearby tribes to accede peacefully, and several tribes are joining the kingdom willingly, leading to a swift expansion of the kingdom's territories.
However, negotiations with one of the tribes, the Tussilaniila, break down, as the Tussilaniila fear repression under Rothränni rule, and their Jögae is instead deciding to submit to  Thursaaki of Jama, a much smaller tribe to the east. Having offered the Thursaaki far better terms then the Jamai, Rejzamaziri took this act as a slight against himself and the kingdom Rothrän.
Thus, several years later, the Rothränni Jögae seceretly approached Kai Murrjadi - then the Jögae of Murrjadi - with a secret offer - that if the Murrjadans would assist the Rothränni in a war against the Jamai, and their Ushjandäämi allies to the south, then the Murrjadans could claim their ancestral territory from the Ushjandäämi, whom had annexed several of their settlements following The Galáspatran War.
Keen to recover his ancestral territories, Kai Murrjadi agreed to the proposal. Thus, in the spring of 316 ABV, the Jögae assembled their armies, and stormed across the border without warning or provocation, with the Murrjadans invading the Ushjandäämi from the south, and the Rothränni invading the enemy coalition from the east with three separate armies.
== The Battle of Jama ==
Rejzamaziri had assembled three armies. The main host (~3,000 men) was led by the Jögae himself, while his brother and heir to the throne, Majzari, commanded the second (~1500 men). The third (~2,500 men) would be led by his cousin, Balti. 
For their part, the Jamai were caught completely off guard as the two brothers stormed over their eastern border, with Majzari leading his army from the north to besiege the capitol settlement of Jama. The Jamai, instead of electing to hide behind their wooden palisades, elected to directly confront Majzari's forces outside the settlement, attempting to encircle the army in the woods. The encirclement failed, however, as the fanatical Raë-sae threw carved a hole in the Jaman lines, thus forcing the enemy deeper into the woods, where they instead elected to ambush the invaders. As such, the northern campaign devolved into a series of skirmishes in the forest, which saw the death of nearly 100 Raë-sae.
However, after six weeks and three days, Majzari's host had driven the Jamai from the area. Using whale oil to burn down the gates of the settlement, the army stormed Jama, slaughtering the remaining Jaman defenders trapped within the walls.
Finding the granaries well-stocked with mead, the army proceeded to celebrate, and before discipline could be restored 53 warriors had broken the Rothränni warrior code - dishonoring many of the settlements women and girls. Upon hearing this, Majzari was said to have flown into a rage, and ordered the priests who had accompanied him to stretch him as a cross between four poles, and whip him as a punishment for the rape of the Jamai women.
Immediately following his repentance, he ordered that the 53 warriors who had broken the code of war to be castrated and made into thralls, and immediately the garrison (excluding the Ræ-Sæ) broke out into a riot, under a band leader named Juhenhari Asmapularji (Son of Raagi Asmapularji, Yægä of the Asmapularji Yøgä). Subsequently, Majzari and his Ræ-Sæ were trapped within the barracks, with Juhenhari urging the revolting warriors to burn the barracks down around them.
However, Majzari appeared before the warriors and thus held a speech, declaring that he was following the Ræøllän code of war, and to murder him would bring the wrath of the gods and the might of Rothrän down upon them. This calmed all but Juhenhari, whom Majzari proceeded to challenge to a duel.
Juhenhari agreed, on the grounds that Majzari, who was injured by the whipping of the priests, take three weeks to recover, so that he could not be accused of murdering the brother of the Jögae.
Thus, three weeks later, Majzari and Juhenhari met amongst the men to settle their differences. The duel was conducted with spears, and Majzari and Juhenhari were quite evenly matched in this regard, accumulating dozens of light wounds throughout the duel as each warrior sought the upperhand. Eventually, Juhenhari saw an opening, and stabbed towards Majzari's heart. 
Thinking quickly, Majzari twisted such that the spear embedded itself in his shoulder. Shattering his own spear against his knee, he brought the blade up as Juhenhari attempted to dislodge his own from Majzari's flesh, catching Juhenhari in the throat, and slicing it to the bone.
Thus, Majzari finally instilled discipline back into his army.
== The Battle of the Gárrách Gorge ==
While Majzari was busy with his own army, Rejzamaziri was pushing deeper into Jamai territory, having conquered the Thursaaki without much resistance. However, now that Jama had fallen the surviving Jamai had fled south, to join with their allies, the Ushjandäämi. Realizing that Rejzamaziri was pushing deeper into their territory, the coalition forces opted to split their forces into three, and thus ambush the Rothränni in the woods.
Having learned from previous experience, Rejzamaziri foresaw this, and hundreds of the Kyøsäl - veteran scouts of the The Galáspatran War and the War of the Mad King, ranged ahead of his host, and discovered the location of the ambush, the so called Gárrách Gorge, which they reported to Rejzamaziri.
Feigning ignorance, Rejzamaziri led his forces directly towards the ambush, ordering the Kyøsäl to light fires in the woods, thus separating the three smaller armies from each other such that he could take them on one at a time.
Outnumbered, and with the flames preventing their escape, these smaller armies fared little chance against the experienced Rothränni host, who slaughtered two of them to the last man.
The third army, however, led by Haetcán Jamasaari, fell upon the rear-guard of the Rothränni from the north. The rear guard, led by a 73 year old veteran,  Kaimur Kaimurroji, are outnumbered, and despite fighting valiantly, overwhelmed by the Jaman onslaught. Kaimur rallied the warriors to fight as long as he could, until he was personally shot by a barrage of arrows. Wishing to die as a warrior, Kaimur called Haetcán Jamasaari out into a duel, and was ultimately slain by the Jaman Jögae. 973 Rothränni died in this assault, to only 503 Jaman, however, the Jaman army was ultimately forced to retreat before Rejzamaziri could bring his full force to bear.
== The Battle of Kärkasenne and the End of the War ==
With the bulk of the enemy forces in the region defeated, and the joint Murrjadan/Rothränni campaign going well in the south, Rejzamaziri leads his forces against the settlements of Johari and Vaasali, which fall quickly to the Jögae as his forces simply burn down the palisades with whale oil.
However, when the Rothränni host breaches the walls of Kärkasenne, the last bastion of the Jamai, the Jögae himself is ambushed by a mob of concealed warriors as he leads the men into battle, and dragged down into a row as his surrounding troops are slaughtered. His spear shattered, the Jögae is forced to defend himself with an obsidian dagger for over ten minutes, until he is speared in the ankle and collapsing amidst the the mob. 
At this point in time, the ever loyal Ræ-Sæ arrive, and seeing their Jögae wounded, mount a desperate charge against his attackers, driving into the midst of the mob without heed for their own safety. The ensuing battle is an absolute bloodbath, as the Ræ-Sæ cut their way through the mob until they reach the beleaguered Jögae, forming a defensive perimeter as several priests tend to his wounds. When it becomes clear that the Jögae is secure, the Jaman mob is slaughtered to a man.
As the Rothränni redoubled their efforts to purge the settlement of Jaman resistance, the Jögae was brought up on a litter and carried away from the fighting.
That night, though the Kärkasenne had finally fallen to the Rothränni, the Jögae, placed on the high seat of Kärkasenne, caught a high fever, and the of Särka declared that his foot was infected, and they would need to amputate if the Jögae was to live.
Majzari, who had arrived in the evening, was fiercely against this idea, fearing that it was a plot to maim and kill his older brother, upon which the priestess of the temple stated that Majzari merely wished to see his brother die of the infection so that he could ascend the throne himself.
Hearing this, Majzari tore off his cape to show his scarred body, and tore at his beard until it bled. Thus declaring that should Rejzamaziri die from the amputation, he would slit his own throat, and call for the exiled Kojzapatri to return to rule Rothrän.
Rejzamaziri is furious at this statement, and despite his fever he rises from his throne to strike his brother, declaring that they should cut if they must, and that he wished to live to see the victory feast on Karkuterja.
Thus, Majzari agreed to the amputation, on the grounds that he would hold a dagger to the priestess' throat to ensure that she performed the operation well. Rejzamaziri rejected a potion which had been intended to dull his senses, and that night his screams echoed throughout Kärkasenne, ensuring that even the dead could not sleep.
== Aftermath ==
As the Jögae recovers in Kärkasenne upon a litter of spears, Kai Murrjadi is arriving from the south with a delegation to visit his wounded ally and celebrate the end of the war. The Murrjadan conquest of the south is revealed to have been quite successful, and Murrjadi has reclaimed the two settlements it lost to the Ushjandäämi in the aftermath of The Galáspatran War.
Having been bitter enemies only 2 decades before, the Rothränni and Murrjadi are celebrating together in the halls of Kärkasenne. Majzari is promised the hand of Kai's fifth daughter, and having fought side by side the kingdoms are seeing a significant warming of relations following the war.
The immediate consequences of the Jamai war were that all of Jama and half of the Ushjandäämi - including a quarry - are annexed into Rothrän, while another tribe to the north accedes to the kingdom willingly following some negotiation. In only a few decades during Rejzamaziri's rule, Rothrän had risen from relative obscurity into a regional power, and the kingdom had near doubled its territory during the Jamai war alone. This seemingly served to solidify their position as the foremost regional power in the Kärrosännæ. 
However, immediately following the Rothränni invasion of Jama, four tribal kingdoms (the Arsalka, Dumasuuri, Falvenjaari and Vaarkavaara) on the northern border of Rothrän, terrified by the military potential of their neighbour, decide to form an alliance known as "The Four Great Grouses", whose banner consists of four great grouses on a white background, strangling a serpent with their talons.
The Murrjadi, for their part, are annexing their ancestral territories from the Ushjandäämi, who have been eradicated as a tribal entity.
The events occuring during and after the Jamai war would ultimately set the stage for the accession of the Murrjadi kingdom into Rothrän, The Great Grouse War, and The War For Torko's Cock.
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