Season of Death

The Season Of Death
At the height of the war between the Wild and the Empire, campaigning continued even into the Autumn and Winter months, with smaller armies supported by mass clerical and druidic support on both sides. The disruption this caused to the harvest was significant, and the following year there was much starvation across the North Island.
As the war continued through the Spring and Summer, it at first looked as through this would be another year of a failed harvest. The Empire had managed to recover from its initial defeats and for the moment the two sides were effectively stalemated, both sides were now actively seeking an opening to exploit and campaigning vigorously.
But as Autumn started and the crops that had been planted ripened, Clerics and Druids of all faiths began reporting that their ability to create food supplies had become severely limited. It soon became obvious that the logistics to support military operations would have to revert to traditional supply chains. This, along with the general shortage of food brought about by last years harvest disruption, brought a brief period of peace to the North Island. Both sides in the conflict denied being responsible for the situation, none of the religions seemed to be particularly concerned either – as if somehow complicit.
The nomadic tribes in particular suffered particular hardship. They had got used to using magically created supplies as a means of minimising the number of herd animals they needed to cull over the Winter. For them the season soon became known as the “Season of Death”.
As the war ended and Soratan retreated, it was soon noticed that the following Winter, the ability to magically create supplies returned to normal. Whether this was because Soratan controlled the ritual involved or whether the Empire put the enchantment into abeyance was never discovered.