Avian Triumvirate—Mammalian Confederation War

* Avian Triumvirate / Affiliates
	+ Faerin
	+ Galvanor
	+ Fal'qar (Deceased)
	+ Zarak (Deceased)
	+ Severen/Tenebrae (Deceased)

* Avian Triumvirate
	+ Faerin's Phoenix
	+ Eagles
	+ Peacocks

* Phoenix Triumvirate

* Avian Triumvirate
	+ Eagle aircraft
	+ Faerin's airship

* All
	+ Speedorz

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Wolf—Lion War

The second war to be waged in Chima, and the first large-scale conflict Faerin and Galvanor fought in, from 823 to 819 years before the events of the Roleplay. The events leading up to this war began the Confederation Era of Chima's history, named after the Mammalian Confederation, who outlived their enemies' alliance, the Avian Triumvirate, by about thirty-nine years. This war was an extremely important part of the Mammoth, Leopard, and Fox tribes' histories, and though memory of this conflict was erased from the minds of Chima's inland peoples by Leodus' spell, it was later considered, in hindsight, to be somewhat of a spiritual progenitor to the Second Chima Civil War.

## Catalysts

* Faerin publicly revealing the truth about the Fire Wing Harnesses' purpose, and splitting the Phoenix Tribe.
* Faerin and her Phoenix constructing The Purple City in the Arctic, in the year 824 BR.
* The Leopards finding out about the Elemental Balance as a result of this, and failing to persuade Faerin to leave the north.
* Faerin and the Leopards creating the Avian Triumvirate and Mammalian Confederation with the tribes that believe their respective claims.

## Goals

### Avian Triumvirate

* (Before Faerin's betrayal) Keep the stolen Fire Wing Harnesses locked up in the Purple City perpetually.
* Conquer Lion City and take control of Cavora, to defeat the MC with power source starvation and become an oligarchy leading the continent.
* (After Faerin's betrayal) Faerin— Escape to the West Sea with her mind-controlled Phoenix.

#### Eagles/Gryphons (Galvanor only)

* (After Faerin's betrayal) Recede from the AT and select a new "king".
* Galvanor— Kill Faerin.

### Mammalian Confederation

* (Before the fall of their HQs) Drive all Phoenix out of the north; defeat the AT.

#### Mammoths

* (After the fall of their HQ) Conquer the Purple City to serve as a new headquarters for their tribe.

#### Lions

* Lynne— Retake Lion City and drive out the fractured AT.

#### Leopards

* Restore the Elemental Balance before Chima is destroyed.

### Phoenix Triumvirate

* Fal'qar and Zarak— Send Severen to liberate the Fire Wings; confront Faerin over her actions.
* Severen— Extract the Fire Wing Harnesses from the Purple City, to help restore the Elemental Balance.

## Results

* Mammoth Headquarters destroyed in 821 BR; Mammoths aim to take over the Purple City.
* Fox Headquarters destroyed in 820 BR, tribe scattered; the Foxes lose their leaders and recede from the MC by default.
* Lion King slain by the AT, Lion City taken over in late 820 BR; the very young Lion Prince survives, and Lynne takes command as Acting Regent.
* Fal'qar and Zarak's incarnations at the time "killed" by Faerin in 819 BR.
* Faerin's Phoenix brainwashed to go under her direct control; Eagle and Peacock kings slain by Faerin; Peacocks nearly wiped out; Eagles deny Galvanor kingship despite him being the King's only son.
* Lynne retakes Lion City from Faerin.
* Severen escapes the Purple City with the Fire Wings; Galvanor sabotages Faerin's airship, and it crashes to the far northwest.
* Faerin and Galvanor both frozen instead of killed.
* Leopards destroy the Purple City and restore the Elemental Balance; Mammoths recede from the MC because of this.

## Battles

### Major Battles

* Battle of Mammoth HQ— Combatants: Faerin's Phoenix, Eagles, Peacocks, Mammoths, Leopards.
* Battle of Fox HQ— Combatants: Faerin's Phoenix, Eagles, Peacocks, Foxes.
* First Battle of Lion City— Combatants: Faerin's Phoenix, Eagles, Peacocks, Lions.
* Second Battle of Lion City— Combatants: Faerin's Phoenix, Lions.
* Second Battle of the Purple City— Combatants: Mammoths, Leopards, Faerin's Phoenix.

### Minor Battles

* First Battle of the Purple City— Combatants: Lions, Leopards, Foxes, Mammoths, Faerin's Phoenix, Eagles, Peacocks.
* Battle of the Arctic— Combatants: Mammoths, Leopards, Faerin's Phoenix.
* Battle of The Grassy Plains— Combatants: Lions, Foxes, Eagles, Peacocks.
* Battle of the future Minor Tribes territory— Combatants: Foxes, Peacocks.

### The Inciting Events

In 824 BR, the current incarnations of the Phoenix Triumvirate regrouped, and Faerin made a move to take over the Phoenix Tribe, despite her allies urging her not to. She managed to convince some Phoenix of the forgotten truth about the Great Illumination, and a sizable portion of the tribe split off, taking some of the Fire Wing Harnesses with them. Unable to destroy the harnesses, Faerin began building a heavily fortified city to the far north in the Arctic, intending to keep the Fire Wing Harnesses there perpetually, and had her Phoenix spread the word about the Great Illumination, hoping to gain more allies. The Peacock King, whose tribe had been reduced to a smaller nomad group after the Tiger—Lion War, allied with Faerin to live in the Purple City, and the Eagle King also decided to ally with them, to keep the Fire Wing Harnesses locked up; the three factions formed the Avian Triumvirate. The main Phoenix Tribe, not wanting to risk a civil war that would damage their tribe and its public image even more, elected to leave it be.

Soon after, there began to be earthquakes rising in magnitude, and the Leopards made the correlation that the earthquakes began after Faerin and her Phoenix moved to the Arctic. In a valley on the north-south border, leopard philosophers, historians, and scientists converged and analyzed the phenomenon, becoming the first tribe to learn about the Elemental Balance. The Leopard King ventured to the Purple City to urge Faerin to leave the north, explaining that the presence of Phoenix there would eventually destroy the continent. Faerin refused to leave without tangible evidence, and drove the Leopards away. The Leopards related this information to Chima's other tribes, and the tribes that believed their claim, the Lions, Foxes, and Mammoths, allied with them, forming the Mammalian Confederation.

### The Avian Triumvirate's Initial Advantage

The Leopards and their allies, now having no choice but to forcefully drive Faerin out of the Arctic as the earthquakes slowly worsened, attacked the Purple City after a few more failed negotiations, beginning the Avian Triumvirate—Mammalian Confederation War in 823 BR. Despite the AT being the smaller faction, the MC wasn't able to break through the defenses of the most technologically advanced city at the time, leading to a long stalemate in the war as the tribes fought small battles across the north and south. The Mammoths' Headquarters was destroyed in 821 BR, and the tribe retreated to regain their strength.

In 820 BR, the AT regrouped and launched a brutal surprise attack on the Foxes, who'd been weakened during the war; the Fox Headquarters at the time was destroyed, and the tribe was scattered. The Peacock King, angered at his tribe's former allies the Lions for not taking in his ancestors after the Tiger—Lion War, eventually suggested that the AT attack and conquer Lion City to gain a significant foothold in the south. The Avian Triumvirate, using all of its soldiers, actually managed to slay the Lion King and drive out the Lions, taking control of Lion City and Mount Cavora, and cutting off the chi supply to the Leopards and Mammoths.

### The Fall of the AT

In early 819 BR, the other two Phoenix Triumvirate members (believing the Leopards regarding the Elemental Balance, and having sent Tenebrae/"Severen" to infiltrate the Purple City to take the Fire Wing Harnesses) confronted Faerin over her actions. However, Faerin, who'd seemingly gone insane, turned on all her allies, killing the Peacock King, the Eagle King (but not before he helped Galvanor escape), and the current incarnations of Fal'qar and Zarak, before bringing her Phoenix under her direct control through a progenitor to hypnotism. The Peacock Tribe, at the Lion City in its entirety, was nearly wiped out by Faerin's Phoenix, and left scattered and leaderless, unaware that their king had an illegitimate son. The Eagles retreated back to their homeland, where they selected a competent leader to falsely claim as the Eagle King's biological son, so as not to put the half-breed Galvanor on the throne.

### Destruction of the Purple City

Field Marshal Lynne, temporarily leading the Lions in place of the very young prince, launched an assault to retake Lion City now that the AT had fallen apart. Her campaign succeeded, and Faerin retreated back to the Purple City with her brainwashed Phoenix. Severen successfully escaped with the liberated Fire Wing Harnesses just before Galvanor arrived ahead of Faerin, planting explosives on the phoenix' airship to sabotage her planned voyage to The West Sea. The Leopards and Mammoths followed Faerin to the Purple City and attacked even as she and a third of her army made it out on their airship. Galvanor's sabotage worked, and Faerin's ship crashed somewhere in the northwest of the ocean. During the battle, Galvanor was caught in the crossfire as he tried to escape the city, but he fell beneath the Arctic waters, and was frozen instead of killed. The Leopards bombed and destroy the Purple City, eliminating the presence of Phoenix in the north, and ending the Avian Triumvirate—Mammalian Confederation War. This, however, drove a wedge between the Mammoths and Leopards, since the former had been planning to take over the Purple City to use as a new headquarters themselves.

## Long-Term Ramifications

* Despite the Leopards' brutal destruction of Faerin's Phoenix (excluding the group that escaped on her airship) being criticized by the other tribes, this did restore the Elemental Balance, which lasted for centuries, until the time of the Roleplay.
* The Mammalian Confederation, now comprised of only the Lions and Leopards, eventually became defunct during the 39 years of peace that followed (before the Wolf—Lion War), though not before one of Lynne's daughters met and married Leopard Prince Leo'dus as a result of the alliance; thus, the Leopards' royal line became connected with Lyron's bloodline, though the lion DNA in the Leopard Kings became increasingly diluted as they continued marrying within their tribe.
* In an attempt to persuade the Mammoths to rejoin the MC, Lynne launched the Northern Outland Mountains expedition in 810 BR, which brought about the creation of the first White Lions.
* The Phoenix Tribe, over the ensuing centuries, eventually recovered the four Fire Wing Harnesses that Faerin had taken, though what she'd said about the Great Illumination was dismissed as propaganda, and eventually forgotten even by the Phoenix.
* In 219 BR, 600 years after her airship had crashed in the northwest glaciers, Faerin and her brainwashed Phoenix were found, thawed out, and "revived" by the Manta Ray Empire using chi; this brought about the Imperial Civil War.
* Galvanor was found and revived in the same way by Malgus at the time of the Roleplay, which led to his takeover of the Eagles, and the Second Chima Civil War.