List of Essotori Wars

== List of Essotori Wars ==
=== Essotori Conquest ===
==== Connish - Dylias War (1659 - 1660) ====
The Connish - Dylias War was the first contact cultist forces had with the native Tori of the land, though it was primarily a naval war. The Dylias Despotate was incapable of resisting Connish naval power, even with their famed living fire weapons. With the decapitation of Despot Galgius 'the Rowdy' by a Cultist strike team, Dylias was destroyed, and virtually all of its remaining nobility surrendered, in a formal ceremony. Dylias' culture was eradicated, with its only memory existing in the fact that many of the Tori nobility descend from these first Tori. 
==== Connish - Teihiros War (1661 - 1662) ====
The Connish - Teihiros War came short after Dylias, and was far more brutal. While in Dylias, many of the natives allegedly viewed the invaders as liberators, Teihiros was relatively unified in its opposition to the invaders. Teihiros was a theocracy, under the rule of one of the mystical Arch Oracles, religious figures who prophecised the future for their peoples. The Thirty Fourth Arch Oracle was captured, and put on trial by Connish forces. He was executed. The bodies of the natives were thrown into the Achalos River, the wellspring of wealth for many surrounding tribes and nations. This poisoned the waters for months, and led many states to surrender to the invaders. 
=== First Radonic War (1664 - 1668) ===
The First Radonic War was the most violent war in the conquest, as a result of a coalition of Tori states, led by Radon itself, the strongest Tori state, in an attempt to expel the invaders. The Toris believed that their victory would signal a new age of strength for their people, with a revival of heroism, tradition and peace, after centuries of decline. The invaders were outnumbered, and facing an enemy of near equal zeal, with the blessing of all remaining Arch Oracles, as well as the ruler of Radon personally, they would fight to the death. Several Connish defeats, as well as pyrhic victories, forced both sides to conduct a peace treaty, that halted Connish advances for several years, forcing a more diplomatic game. This environment of peace was known by contemporary merchants as "the last Golden age of Radon". The war severely depleted Connish resources, and forced them to build up strength for many years, and become significantly less agressive in diplomacy. Additionally, the Connish began recruiting native Toris to fight in their armies, starting a trend that continues to this day.
=== Thullic War (1673 - 1678) ===
The Thullic War was waged by the Count Argan Thull, using his personal levies to combat a small coalition of Tori states. The Thullic War lacked much of the brutality of the conquest, instead being seen as the model of heroic chivalry. Argan Thull's wife to be was kidnapped by agents of Mahakas (Duke) Halad, to be used as a concubine and war trophy. Halad commanded a relatively large Tori state in the south, and at this stage in the conquest, many smaller realms began to adopt a Connish feudal structure, allowing Halad to call upon several client vassal regimes. Thull refused to travel to New Connish, the capital of the time, and rally the nobles of Conland - Sagadahoc to war properly, and instead rallied his comparatively small levies, and a personal detachment of Cnights to commit themselves to war. After defeating a much larger army at the battle of Jalin, Thull was able to save his wife, and the two married. He was declared Duke of Acropo for this achievement, though he spent the rest of his life in his private estates back in his original fiefdom. 
=== Second Radonic War (1690 - 1695) ===
The final war in the Essotori Conquest, and the last stand of the historical nation of Radon.