War of Independence and Unification - Drasia Dynasty

On 28th of Dendra 4874 without any warning the war started, multiple synchronized surprise attacks right across Muin-Ru targeting many of the key strategic locations within the Gnome military all from the various Dwarvern Kingdoms that lived below the surface. The surprise nature of the attacks meant that the Gnomes where caught unaware and the fact that the Dwarves hit sites all across the country all at once left the Gnomish defenses and organisation of their response to the attacks was slow and messy. After the first few months of success as the Dwarves continued to hit gnomish positions and move on quickly, Muin-Ru was able to begin to organize its forces but the dwarves continued to use gorilla tactics to counter the superior military advantage that their enemy had. But the tide of the battle started to turn the more organised the the Muin-Ru's became their superior technology was used to effectively defend large strategic sites with limited manpower and they became more vigilant as well. The Dwarven Kingdoms had done little to coordinate their attacks other than to time the initial attacks but in 4875 they officially united and formed the Drazia Dynasty they then appointed Thorfin Gilmar as the general of their combined military forces much to the displeasure of King Morgrym, though he was crowned high king of the Dynasty. One of the first things that Thorfin did was to conscript even those who were unable to fight and put them to work digging tunnels, along with increasing numbers of his army, pulling them away from the front lines. This meant that the Dwarven forces had to retreat more often, lose ground that they had taken and Thorfin often ordered them to use bluff tactics to scare Gnome forces into prolonged stand offs rather than battles, to sow confusion and cause the gnomes to commit resources ineffectually, the Muin-Ru leadership believed that they were winning and began increasing the pressure on what they thought was a wounded and losing army but this was actually one of Thorfin's greatest successes. The dwarves lured the bulk of Muin-Ru's forces to the planes on Nantona to the south of the Kingdom of Gold, they had far more troops and it looked like this was the last of the Dynasties armies, the Muin-Ru forces thought that this was going to be a decisive and tremendous victory which would crush the dwarven uprising. As the vast army advanced across the open ground of the plane, the ground itself collapsed beneath them, killing, injuring or at least incapacitating nearly the entire army what remained where moped up by the dwarven forces above and those below the ground finished off any living gnomes that had fell. The war swung back in favor of dynasty. Tunnels were used in other battles as well but they had limited effectiveness after this first time, but even though it never caught the gnomes out as completely again the fact that they were always cautious and wary of this tactic was used to their advantage throughout the rest of the war. Depending on who you ask the other famous time this tactic was used is either the greatest military success ever achieved or the worst war crime ever committed, Thorfin set his mining crew to work at Stormlight, the Capital city of Muin-Ru. After months of defeats and losses those from the surface were tired and drained but though their spirits were weakened they were not broken they continued to fight back and rebuild their defenses rapidly, this was of course until their capital city suddenly collapsed into a pit, killing thousands, destroying the factories, military command and proving that no surface city could ever be truly safe again, the ruins are now known as The Crater of Woe. Within a week the Muin-Ru had surrendered and gave up their claim to the land above the Kingdoms of the Drazia Dynasty, many gnomes were taken as slaves which was considered a just reward. The rest fled across Tanalier, a number were offered refuge in Carthorka only to end up as slaves there instead. The only hold out was the city of Jel'hep which continued to resist even after the war officially ended, many gnomes that were able flocked here before the Drazia army surrounded and laid siege to it, they began installing thousands of floating crystals below the city streets until eventually they were able to achieve flight, the city itself took off and used their new aerial superiority deal massive damaged to the besieging force, the crater left behind by the city leaving, became known as The Crater of Hope. They were able to maneuver the city to rein huge boulders down on dwarven forces, but since most of the country had already surrendered their fight was mostly pointless especially as the dwarves had little interest in the surface once the gnomes were gone. So eventually the city of Jel'hep and The Dynasty officially made peace, and the city headed east, and now floats over the coast of Janmier.