The Great Farlands War

Battle of Grey Caps Pass, 314 BLC

### Summary

The Great Farlands War is a war between the Yettin and the Hotspring Macaques & Chimpanzees, it lasted from 315 BLC to 313 BLC and resulted in the yettin species being pushed to extinction, and the Hotspring Macaques taking over the Farlands. It started because the Hotspring Macaques had taken loans from the Yetis which they used to improve their infrastructure and military, and after refusing to pay it back the Yettin declared war, so the Hotspring Macaques, knowing they'd lose, allied with the most powerful tribe in the Isles, the Chimpanzee Tribe.

The war would rage on for 2 years, and terribly handed by the Yeti King Sozi resulting in a grave defeat for the Yetis with only a few survivors.

### Battles

#### The Ravaging

It was a cold and foggy morning when Hotspring Macaque and Chimpanzee ships transporting over 27,000 soldiers led a surprise invasion on the Farlands, deploying alongst the coast and leading assaults & raids on villages and towns close to it. This was a massive blow to the yetis, having close to 5,000 of their kind slain in the attack.

The Yettin King Sozi missing, not taken by the enemy, but off on vacation, taking a dozen whores to his rural cabin, leaving Jarl War'wyn to deal with invasion on the Northern Isles, not knowing of the Hotspring Macaques invasion which he found out about 2 weeks after it had happend.

#### The Battle of Grey Caps Pass

When a force of 12,000 Chimpanzee & Hotspring Macaque soldiers where marching through a passage in the mountains of the Grey Caps, west of the Grey Mines, they were met with a force of 2,500 Yettin Warriors, this was about 3 weeks after the Ravaging, and 4 days after King Sozi had heard about the invasion, choosing to lead his own kind into combat to boost morale and his own image.

The Yeti Force was waiting at the exit of the snowy ravine the opposing force was marching through, the two forces met, the Yettin showing their fury in the battle after what the enemy had done to their brothers.

The battle raged on when King Sozi met the ruthless chimpanzee warlord named Leofwine the Black, and as the warlord charged at the Yeti King, Sozi dropped his axe, and ran, fearing for his life. This demolished the morale of the defenders, and soon the other Yetis would also retreat, humiliated.

To not have the retreating yetis slaughtered as their formation was broken, Sage the Mage, who was spectating the battle from the cliffside, erupted a giant ice wall to stop the enemy right in their tracks, although this would come at a cost as he needed to use some sort of energy source for this powerful move, and that energy source was his body, which would kill him, but his spirit still free, and roams the Farlands to this day.

#### Massacre of Yettin Square

After many skirimishes between the two sides, one resulting in the death of the famous monke-at-arms Samuel the One-eyed, the Yetis would be pushed back to their capital Yettin Square, now known as Old Yettin Square. The invading force of now about 40,000 would lay siege to the city, and after 2 weeks, getting impatient, and the chimpanzee not very tolerable of the cold, they led the attack.

Siege towers were pushed up to the walls, battering rams slammed against the gates and the battle would erupt. The Yetis were heavily outnumbered, about 5,300 strong, but would fight for their lives, and as dusk was closing in the walls would be taken by the attackers, and the Yettin would be pushed back.

The battle continued in the streets, the Yettin were losing, but refused to surrender, so they were slaughtered down to the last monke, with only a few survivors. And when they opened the doors to King Sozi's castle located in the back of the city, they found he had not been killed by Hotspring Macaque, or Chimpanzee, but Yettin.

### Aftermath

This battle would mean the end of the war, resulting in the Hotspring Macaques becoming the rulers of the Farlands and the Yettin nearly going extinct and having to flee from their homeland. Around 60 BLC when Yeti rebels led by Warybar, and with the help of reinforcements from the northern Bulwark Lands successfully drove the Hotspring Macaques out of the mainland, and back to the Northern Isles and Macaque Pines.