Northern Wars

Northern Wars were conflicts between the Nilfgaardian Empire and the kingdoms of the Nordlings. Less popularly known as the Nilfgaardian Wars or the Nordling Wars, each one displayed the Empire's desire to subjugate the expanse between the river Alba in the south and the Dragon Mountains up north. Though started by the Usurper, they turned out to be a prominent portion of Emperor Emhyr var Emreis's reign and the 13th century as a whole.
The Black Cloaks first marched north to absorb the neighboring Ymlac and Rowan. Their earliest clash with Nordling people happened around the mid-12th century during the war against Metinna, aided by mercenaries from Temeria no less.Genealogy of Ciri - Crispin Kameny However, to imperial historiography, it was the 1239 annexation of Ebbing which launched the proper Northern Wars that lasted until April 1268, when the Peace of Cintra was signed. On the other hand, the Northern Kingdoms beyond Yaruga usually see the Battle of Marnadal in 1263 as the start and place the end in 1272. The latter is because what Nordlings dub the "Third Northern War" gets labelled differently in the Nilfgaardian record.
Be that as it may, the tension, stemming from the huge societal imprint left on afflicted regions such as Brugge, existed well into the 14th century.In there is a passage in which the children of Vyrva are mentioned to fear, among other things, the possibility that the "cruel invaders from a hundred years ago" might appear again.
==Wars==
The Northern Wars include:
*Northern War I 
*Northern War II , otherwise called the "Great War"
*Northern War III 
==Trivia==
*Andrzej Sapkowski once compared the Empire of Nilfgaard to Rome of the Pax Romana era, equating Nordlings with Gauls and Britons in the same breath. He then said the interviewer's parallel with Nilfgaard as Napoleonic France and the North as European monarchies wasn't bad either."The work of my life is yet to come." – Interview with Andrzej Sapkowski
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