War of the Mad King

Belligerents	The Puusan-Rothrän Alliance 	The Hännorothinji Tribe
Forces 	~ 3, 500 	~ 2,000
Losses 	~ 1,200 	~ 1,800
Result 	Victory 	Defeat
Consequences	Puusa is saved from the jaws of defeat	The tribe is annexed into Puusa
The Hännorothinji-Puusan conflict, more commonly known as the War of the Mad King, was a conflict fought in the Kärrosännæ shortly after The Galáspatran War between several of the tribal entities that had banded together against the mercenary king. While relations between these tribal kingdoms had deteriorated after their victory over the Doriyan host, the conflict was not sparked by these disagreements, but rather by the antics of the king of Puusa, known to history as Muugin the Mad.
== Prelude ==
Having met the mad king during The Galáspatran War, the young heir of the Hännorothinji, Mujasatri, decides to take advantage of the lunatics antics in order to claim Puusa as his own. Muugin the mad is thus tricked into promising the entirety of Puusa to Mujasatri in return for nine crow's eggs. 
But as Mujasatri returns to his tribe in order to collect the eggs, Muugin the mad is convinced by his priests to retire to the temple farm, where he seeks to literally hatch his successor, whom he in a dream had learned would be a duck who would lead Puusa to world conquest. The mad king is clumsy however, and over 16 eggs are crushed in the process. Throughout Puusa, it is rumoured that the Jögae is impregnating the ducks with his seed, and has locked his sister wives in a cage which he hung up on the highest tree in the woods of his kingdom.
Thus when Mujasatri returned in order to claim what had been promised to him, he was swiftly rebuked by Usski, son of Muugin, whom had taken over the kingdom of Puusa in light of his father's disease of the mind. Realizing that his plot had failed and dismayed by this betrayal, Mujasatri crushed the eggs against a tree and declared that he would return and take his claim to that very tree. And so the War of the Mad King began.
==The Hännorothinji Invade Puusa==
Returning to his tribe, Mujasatri gathers an army of 1500 men, and invades Puusa during the spring of the following year. Usski had thought that Mujasatri's oath was an idle threat and the Hännorothinji caught the Puusans by surprise, overtaking the settlements of Jumasjärvi and Shubji with ease, slaughtering the disorganized warriors in the region. They would have succeeded in taking Puusa itself had a lightning bolt not ignited a massive blaze in the forests before them, cutting off their advance.
During this time, Muugin is descending even deeper into madness, hatching his successor, Räginji Malussulpukatri, who follows him wherever he may go. A few Puusans truly believe that Räginji is the promised one, and Muugin orders a small throne built of seashells, wood, and amber for his heir. In order to drive off the Hännorothinji, Muugin purportedly attempts to hire an army of mercenary ants, which are unfortunately devoured by Räginji. So instead, Muugin gathers the children on the nobility, and begins carving 5000 wooden warriors, demanding the priests assist him in bringing them to life.
Unfortunately for Mujasatri, Usski has more sense then his father and realizing that Puusa's strength was broken during the initial attack by the Hännorothinji, he travels to the nearby Kingdom of Rothrän to plead for aid. Having also fought in The Galáspatran War, he is welcomed as a friend by the Jøgæ, Rejzamaziri, who at first is reluctant to commit forces against a former ally. 
Fortunately for Usski, Rejzamaziri sees the war as an opportunity to demonstrate the kingdom's martial supremacy, as well as a chance to gain an ally to secure his southern front. Thus, Rejzamaziri declared that he would intervene if Usski swore an oath of friendship with Rothrän, and that their kingdom's would henceforth enjoy a military pact consecrated in the blood of the Hännorothinji. To this, Usski promptly agreed and before long, two thousand Rothränji warriors - among them, a thousand of the elite Ræ-Sæ, were sailing towards Puusa.
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== The Ascension of Räginji Malussulpukatri and the Death of the Mad King ==
As Usski and Rejzamaziri prepared to do battle with the invading Hännorothinji, Muugin became increasingly paranoid to the point where he banished the priestess Yyrsa, believing her to be a spy, after she had been betrothed to Räginji Malussulpukatri. First hand accounts claim that Muugin's rationale was that as Räginji did not take his human form to make love to Yyrsa, she must be an enemy. Thus, she was given a boat, and told never to return to Puusa. Following this, Muugin and his followers began to purge Puusa of those of whom Räginji was thought to have disapproved.
The mad king eventually met his end at the hands of Kyrjapätilä the Brave, a Hännorothinji adventurer. Kyrjapätilä was a member of a small party of Hännorothinji led by Mugo the black-tongued. This party had been sent to catch the Puusans by surprise by lighting their capitol settlement on fire, and thus throw their enemy into disarray. However, as they approached the settlement, they encountered the delusional Muugin, accompanied by several of his child priests, and his wooden "army".
The Hännorothinji were initially going to retreat, fearing that they had been spotted. However, upon seeing that the assembled Puusans were in some kind of trance, Kyrjapätilä stepped forwards. 
Thus, Kyrjapätilä declared "That is just Muugin. I will end the fun now!"
Then he threw his spear at Muugin the Mad, and killed him with one stroke, pinning Muugin's corpse to one of his wooden sentries. The Hännorothinji then proceeded to sneak past the hallucinating child-priests, and used the wooden army to cover their advance.
Unfortunately, in killing Muugin, Kyrjapätilä had unwittingly called the wrath of Räginji Malussulpukatri down upon his party. The beaked terror dove down upon the party, slamming into Kyrjapätilä and causing the warrior to fall and break his neck against one of the erected wooden sentries. The duck continued to attack the party, and another man died when Räginji managed to drive the man onto the point of a sentries' spear.
Ultimately realizing that the commotion had ruined their mission, Mugo the black-tongued called for an expeditious retreat. Räginji Malussulpukatri was never seen again, but when the children awaken from their drug-induced hallucinations, they declare that Räginji Malussulpukatri has killed the entirety of the Hännorothinji host, and flown into the highlands of the east, to take his rightful place amongst the gods.
== The Battle of Ujzimakalössa ==
The actual battle of Puusa began three days later. The joint Puusan-Rothränni host, led by Rejzamaziri and Usski, was initially caught off guard by the speed of the Hännorothinji forces, whom had marched through the night, crossing a stream to the west in order to outmaneuver their enemies. 
As the allied commanders had initially thought the Hännorothinji would arrive from the east, they found themselves in a dire situation. It was then, that 200 of the elite Ræ-Sæ, guardians of the sacred temple of Räol, volunteered to buy Rejzamaziri enough time to re-organize his host.
Thus, as Rejzamaziri and Usski redrew their plans, the Ræ-Sæ launched an ambush upon the advancing Hännorothinji forces in the woods. What followed was a gruelling, three hour battle between the advancing Hännorothinji and Ræ-Sæ volunteers, which saw the fanatical Ræ-Sæ throw themselves against the invaders. 
It is said that the Ræ-Sæ charged the advancing Hännorothinji a grand total of eleven times, renewing their assault each time that they were repulsed, seemingly without any heed for their own safety. Despite their ferocity, in the end strength of numbers prevailed, and every last Ræ-Sæ was cut down by the advancing horde, but not before the warriors had managed to slay over 290 of their enemies.
Their sacrifice was not in vain, however. The time they had bought Rejzamaziri was more then enough for the Jögae to reform his battle lines.
The two armies met in an open field between two patches of wood, and the battle of Ujzimakalössa began. As the Hännorothinji charged over the morning field, Rejzamaziri employed whale oil to create a massive bush fire.
The Hännorothinji were unperturbed by the smoke and flame, and thus, as the fires spread, they crashed into the allied armies. 
What followed was a gruelling battle of attrition, with both sides refusing to yield. Eventually, however, the strength of the remaining Ræ-Sæ carried the day, and the Hännorothinji army splintered. The battle of Ujzimakalössa claimed the lives of over 700 allied warriors, and 1100 Hännorothinji.
With the bulk of their forces destroyed, the Hännorothinji retreated to their capitol but were unable to hold the settlement against the advancing allied forces. Thus, the joint Puusan-Rothränni army sacked the settlement, and what remained of the Hännorothinji forces was scattered to the forests, continuing to fight a guerilla war against their enemies.
== The Battle of Ruota and the end of the War ==
Following their defeat at the battle of Ujzimakalössa, the Hännorothinji would continue the war for another 16 months. During this time, the Murrjadi joined the war, re-claiming the town of Muusala, which they had lost to the Hännorothinji during The Galáspatran War. Meanwhile, Zäi and Doräi slave traders, on the coast, opportunistically captured over 500 Hännorothinji civilians.
The Hännorothinji resistance was finally broken by the Rothrän heir Kojzapatri (younger brother of Rejzamaziri) at the battle of Ruota. Here, he met Mujasatri in ritual combat. The two men attacked one another with weapons made of bones, over a fire. Initially, Kojzapatri was cast down into the pyre, searing his chest, but as Mujasatri moved in for the kill, he grabbed fourteen smouldering pieces of charcoal and threw them into Mujasatri's eyes. As Mujasatri recoiled in pain and confusion, Kojzapatri lept up from the fire and clubbed Mujasatri repeatedly, beating the Hännorothinji down into the fire. Thus Kojzapatri offered Mujasatri to the gods, earning the nickname "Kojzapatri the Burnt"
Following the battle of Ruota, the Hännorothinji territory is annexed into Puusa, as per the agreement between Rejzamaziri and Usski. Instead, Rothrän uses the demonstration of its military might to convince two tribes on its southern border to join the kingdom peacefully. 
Thus, the Puusans and Rothränni formally sealed a permanent alliance with the blood of the Hännorothinji. 
 
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