Immolation

The Immolation was a sack and massacre that occurred in RM 488, during the Maninist Great Ordeal. After inflicting a series of crushing defeats upon the forces of the League of Gallasa, the Aitahist crusaders captured the ancient and holy city of Gallasa, and with it much of the Gallasene nobility and the High Ward of Maninism. Flush with victory, the Aitahist army destroyed the city so that hardly one stone stood upon another, executed the captured nobility, and burned the High Ward as an offering to their goddess. This would, however, mark the high point of the Aitahist crusade, and was in no small measure responsible for the ultimate failure. The Immolation shocked and outraged the Maninist world, and made it clear to the remaining defenders of Sirasona that there could be no surrender. Just as important, a young captain in the Gallasene army named Altaro Javan first came to prominence as one of the very few survivors of the Immolation. 
===Historical Legacy===
The Immolation was a profoundly traumatic experience for the Maninist Faithful. The devastating psychological blow spurred so many profound changes in both Gallat and Maninism in such a short time that scholars commonly divide the history of the religion into two periods with the Immolation as a sharp boundary between them. Art, plays, legends, sermons and songs inspired by the Immolation remain a crucial part of Maninist culture to this day. 
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