The Trench Wipe

The **Trench Wipe**, known by IHOPites as "The Fell of the King" and by Ranch Davidians as "The Night of First True Darkness", is considered the turning point in the Cheeseburger Heresy leading to the defeat of King Flapjack of Elden IHOP. In the stroke of a moment, Nine Armies' worth of Burgaurkar descended on Loyalist Principalities with an unseen viciousness, killing billions of warriors, and displacing trillions of Diner-Exodists. This lead to many dissenting Princes to fall in line to the Burghers, And created the Lesser Baron Gentry after the death of the King.

## Origins: A Cruel Plot

During King Flapjack's reign, many Princes were dissatisfied with his rule. Some Hoppites began to feel the sluggishness of excess of pancake, and their desires grew to eat meats from chicken to beef to pork. While technically legal due to meat being delicious with Mayo, the King refused to allow a permanent meat option in the diner, suggesting a more free-choice, stately matter. Hog Extremists wanted a Pork Supremacy Option, which was a controversy itself with the dissenting Princes.

King Flapjack began to warm to the idea of it as he had "Chicken and Waffles", which brought a tear to his eye; however, his heart softened too late. During the Games of Princes, a cruel plot had just hatched.

### The Burger King, a Hungry Conqueror

The Burger King had ruled for some time, and choosing to expand dimensions, went to his alchemist, Father Michael, who developed a magical transformation potion that could bind the will of the client (The consumer) toward the patron (The Burger King). The potion was powerful, but as alchemy is of equivalent exchange, it came with two costs: The Potion had to be consumed "In A Ring of Root and Oil", and "the consoomer[sic] gains a powerup at the expense of the patron".

Thus, The Burger King hired a criminal to steal the most powerful consumable oil in the foodrealm, the Oil of the Elder. Meanwhile, he purchased three of the most expensive roots known to culinary arts: Glorbus Onions. The use of these ingredients, along with his nation's finest grains, create the enchanted Nine Onion Rings.

When combing through the countless princes, The Burger King sent "leagues of messengers" to the uncountable Princes of King Flapjack's realm. Nearly all of them vehemently denied them, some offered hospitality but turned down any offers of polity behind their King's back, and around twenty had been picked out to have a desire of performing some skullduggery of treacherous intent. However, using a few subtle tests, the Burger King found nine perfect candidates for his plot.

### The Burghers, the Burgaurkar, and the Plan of Attack

The Nine treasonous Princes became enthralled to the Burger King, becoming the Burghers. They grew to monstrous sizes, ten feet and twelve feet tall, and mighty and magical. They were then given great dominion over their individual armies, creating a false sense of power. The Nine armies turned from regular Men to Burgaurkar, mighty Burger-warriors with mighty swords, fry-laser weapons, and sauce grenades. They amassed secretly toward loyalist Principalities "most ripe for the striking". within a few moments, a terrible strike occured.

## The Trench Wipe

The Nine Loyalist Princes were totally unprepared for the onslaught that occured. Within the hour, the Loyalist side was reduced greatly. The ratio went from 99:1 to 43:57, and within a few months, the Burger King had laid siege to the IHOP Prime, and slayed the King. The Trench of Lorbic origin became a place of Exodus for the Hoppites, and thus, like a Wave, or Wipe, the Dinerfolk would rest in the then-peaceful trench until the schism.