Perennial Wars

The Perennial Wars refer to the long and drawn out series of conflicts (still continuing to this day) starting approximately 80 years after the exile of the growing sect of Pax-Viribus Theocracy loyalists from the Primus Territory. Pressure from Iron House delegates to assimilate the cultural elements of society turned into an empire-wide genocide and resulted in the mass internment, execution and ultimately exile of prominent PVT figureheads and loyalists into the the Synovian Desert. Faced with political execution or the hardships of the elements, members of the PVT chose the latter and ventured out into the harsh desert terrain to forge a new life for themselves. After learning the secrets taught to them by the Sacred Wanderers, the rejuvenated PVT peoples quickly spread across the eastern lands, creating city after city. Within but a few generations the PVT managed to create an economy as well as an army that could challenge the coalition's Iron grip over the land. In their hubris the Iron Coalition ignored early reports of bustling PVT towns and nascent militias forming across the Harbinger sea. It was not until an entire Coalition fleet was decimated at the 1st Battle of Saltstraumen that they truly saw the PVT as a serious threat. From that point on there has been various levels of conflict throughout the territory, much of which being focused around locales such as Bulwark, Ziggurat, Walcott's Island, and various parts of the Gulf of Kemet. 
The conflict has spanned multiple generations and through multiple arcs of technology, most notably the invention/discovery of Cinderite and cinderite-based techonlogies and munitions. Such technologies allowed for the possibility of prolonged and sustained battlefronts as well as the opening of new/unconventional theaters of war.