Nar's Conquest

==The First Narean War==
After the success of Nar's soulflame procedure, 162 years passed with the Nareans and the Reinians skirmishing often. The Reinians vastly outnumbered the Nareans, but between the soulflame and their positioning, the Nareans were mostly on equal footing with their enemies. The Nareans were in close proximity to the trolls, but whenever the trolls attacked Reinayas, they hooked around Nar’s Keep because of the volcano. So when the trolls would be beaten back from Reinayas, Nar could plan his attack right afterward.
During once such attack of opportunity, two well-respected Reinian mages, Naeshthrael and Zorash of House Thrael defected to Nar's side. Their father Vorenthrael, a general in Reinayas's army, disowned them, and in a battle three weeks later, hunted them down with his daughter Ariesha. Zorash killed his father. Naeshthrael froze in place as his sister and brother fought to the death, until Zorash pushed his soulflame into instability and immolated them both. Naeshthrael fled to House Thrael and took the rest of House Thrael's children, his siblings Venlia, Zinsha, and the toddler Traetos, and hid them from both armies in the woods. Eventually he was found and in exchange for his siblings' location staying secret, he would return to Nar's Keep to serve as archmage. He agreed and took Traetos with him to raise as his son.
Nar’s army razed most of Reinayas, leaving only cultural and palatial buildings. They already had all the military positions they needed in Nar’s Keep, although they did fortify the garrison positions for troll defense. Nar left a small contingent there. The new capital was declared Nar’s Keep. He claimed Reinayas as an outlying city and renamed it the Smouldering City.
Those who did not join Nar and undergo the soulflame procedure were exiled to leave Bahneria and never return, just as they had done to the Nareans. Most sailed east to Tellaria, where they found their elf kin in Alvestrin. Soon after, a group of nobles and mages, led by Krelthor, made a pilgrimage to Veradorianis in order to raise a counterinvasion.
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