Eimarin Civil War

The **Eimarin Civil War**, also known as **The Celestial Civil War**, **The Thamunzar-Hjokkunzar War**, or **The War in Heaven**, was a galactic conflict that brought about the collapse of the Celestial Empire waged by the technological Thamunzars and the sorcerous Hjokkunzars. Surviving records from the Eimarin Empire referred that war as **The Great Kinslaying** (Eimarin: Vāladara Chorazrod).

## Background

In the latter days of the Celestial Empire, Emperor Ondarandas and his court found out that they has lost their invincibility. Within days, the rest of the Celestial Empire also found out that their invincibility was gone, as hundreds of Celestials were killed by black holes and lethal accidents from powerful spells. They paused their monuments and left their primitive slaves behind as they mourned for forty years: within the four decades of peace, the primitive peoples of the Galaxy were aided by the mortal civilisations -- the Nabenans and the Gweudetons -- who protected nine of their fledgling civilisations. In the next decades, more planets joined their alliance, known as the Emperor's Jewels, as protectorates and vassals.

On the final year of mourning, Gweudeton was added as the 51st member of the Emperor's Jewels. It and its allies fought against the Celestial slave-ships that hunted and slaughtered more primitives, while Nabena's alliance was aided by a splinter faction of Celestials who used their magic to defend their allies.

Centuries later, in the 167th year of Emperor Auvandas, two philosophies emerged in their attempts to regain their invincibility: the Thamunzars, who utilised machines and augmented machines into their spirit-like bodies; and the Hjokkunzars, who channelled vast amounts of magic into themselves in attempting to remake reality. As the two orders spread across the Galaxy, the Thamunzars built great forges and armies of magic-infused metal, while the Hjokkunzars constructed great conduits to draw magic from other dimensions to be harnessed as an energy source. Years later, they became so popular, that they tore the empire apart from Auvandas' crumbling rule. Twelve years after the two orders were founded, the Hjokkunzars made the first attack on a Thamunzar world-forge: the Battle of Imædrijas.

## Course of the war

The day when Imædrijas was demolished by the Hjokkunzars was considered the start of the war. Twelve days after the fall of Imædrijas, Thamunzar fleets raided the conduits of Hjoxar, Rinxar, and Vaitara, razing them and absorbing their excess magic.

While the Emperor's Jewels wisely avoided both sides, three of them joined the Thamunzar, while three others converted to the Hjokkunzar, reducing the league to fifty-five steadfast member states. The Nine Noble Houses, aristocratic nobles that served the Emperor, remained neutral as they defended him from the assaults of the two orders.

On the 7th year of the war, the Seven Stars of Ilgathum were harvested by the Hjokkunzars and Thamunzars to build superweapons. Only did the timely intervention of Nabena's allies were they prevented from harvesting Nabena's sun and freezing the Nabenans to death.

On the 9th year of the war, the Battle of Luradon Nebula was waged between the Thamunzars and Hjokkunzars. It was a turning point where the Hjokkunzars prevailed.

On the 12th year of the war, the city of Ādmatras was torn apart by Hjokkunzar and Thamunzar forces that battled in the city. The Thamunzars prevailed and tore the planet to mine its core.

On the 12th year of the war, the Thamunzar Celestial Lumbariz transmutated himself into a large machine. During the ritual, a certain god infused him with so much power that he was transformed into a powerful god.

On the 19th year of the war, the Celestial Gate of Ruvæthol was fought between a Hjokkunzar sorceress and a Thamunzar smith-lady. They damaged the gate during the fight, tearing open a rift that dragged the whole planet and the combatants into the Void.

Although the Baritai sector of Celestials joined the Hjokkunzar, a group of Baritai Celestials migrate out of the Galaxy.

On the 23rd year of the war, a mixed faction of Thamunzar and Hjokkunzar rebels transported the primitive Druharzans to a distant planet from their homeworld of Gausari. Fascinated by their magical ceremonies, these rogue Celestials protected the Druharzans and their planet from the other armies with a interstellar storm. For hundreds of years, these Celestials taught the Druharzans to use their advanced technology, leaving behind a powerful civilisation. In return, these Celestials are venerated millions of years later as the gods of the Novantirna and Malendor Supercorporation.

From the 24th to the 28th years of the war, the two factions of the Thamunzars fought each other. The Peacekeepers prevailed in that war.

On the 28th year of the war, the garden world of Isodala and the industrial planet of Axernel were ruined as battlefields of the two orders. Isodala was corrupted by the Hjokkunzars' sorcery, its forests and primitive slaves distorted into beasts of burden and twisted crops. Axernel became heavily mechanised on its western hemisphere; its oceans dried and its slaves converted into haunted robots. As their star system, Ruvaikoros, was next to Nagiruge, the Nagiruge inhabitants called upon the Gweudetonian guardians to save them from that horrific fate.

On the 36th year of the war, a coalition fleet of Hjokkunzars raided the palace world of Rauthoxan to claim its ten thousand slave planets from their Thamunzar lord Karaxol.

To bolster his rule, Emperor Auvandas supported the Thamunzars and suppressed the Hjokkunzars in the 45th year of the war. He wanted the Thamunzars' machinery and dreaded the Hjokkunzars' attempts to tear open portals into other dimensions. The Nine Noble Houses mostly obeyed his authority Even though the Thamunzars were supported by the imperial fleets, they were unable to overwhelm the Hjokkunzars, who grew stronger.

On the 46th year of the war, the Hjokkunzar lord Jelxaras sieged the world-forge of Laria.

On the 58th year of the war, the Thamunzar lord Krōvæcholas purged the Fifteen Kingdoms. He himself was possessed by a Void monster, driving him mad as he slaughtered thousands of mortals before the automaton Ranixal slew him.

## Conclusion

On the 69th year of the war, Plagoressam Mysilfas the pale Anevondir slave led an uprising against his Celestial masters at the age of 24. More people began joining Plagoressam's massacre using stolen Celestial weaponry, before they fled with him on a spaceship to an uninhabited jungle planet. Plagoressam forms another league of his own with hundreds of rebellious planets, and his forces attack Sulara while its fleets and armies weaken from infighting. Plagoressam is crowned as Emperor in a ruined temple on his base-planet of Charintam, beginning the Mysilfas ("bright mirror") Dynasty.

The Anevondir return with a massive fleet, and bombard the Celestial capital city of Eirauno, before they slaughter any Celestials that they find. Many surviving Celestials flee into their portal back to their dimension. Having taken over the entire planet of Sulara for themselves, the Anevondir rename their native homeworld "Aneuplak". They establish their capital on the ruins of Eirauno.

Emperor Plagoressam begins his extermination of all Celestials in the Galaxy: any Celestial that is not to be killed is to have their organs harvested to create more chemicals for his empire's technology.

## Legacy

Wherever the Celestials went, the survivors remembered those heavenly tyrants into their myths.

### Vozonid mythology

Vozonid myths tell of a war that was waged by evil deities and traitorous Celestials to destroy the good gods, only to end in defeat. Pjosaroz was supposedly killed while defending Heaven from the traitors' demonic beasts, and Zomjonor created angelic gryphons to replace the Celestials who betrayed Heaven.

### Wonao mythology

Wonao legends claim that armies of angels defeated the Celestials and the demons they unleashed upon the Galaxy. Some of the Celestials were thrown into Hell, banished to the frozen wastes of Notluna, where they were stripped of their powers as demonic abominations.

### Malendor mythology

Malendors believed that the Celestials were abandoned by their creator, Odin, Who was angry that they murdered His creations for the sake of power. Along with the Einherjar who guided them, the All-Father took away the Celestials' powers and invincibility as a punishment, while He hid His followers from the ensuing war and ruin.

One of His sons, Itreksjod, granted his powers to a loyal Celestial, who became the machine god Lumbařiz. Lumbariz took many grifajes away from their homeworld to build a new civilisation as the successor of the Celestials, eventually becoming the Malendor Supercorporation. Therefore, the Malendors consider themselves as the true and rightful successors of the Celestial Empire.

### Resparin mythology

According to Resparin mythology, Heimdall, venerated as the god of fire, created races of fire deities to replace the Celestials. Many of those deities of flame became popular gods in Resparin cultures across the Galaxy, alongside Odin.

Some Celestial relics and machinery landed on parts of Jerde, such as Siangwaan, Vozolaz, Varn Venn, Plaeskovia, and Rukania. They were believed to be the source of the "spinels", mixed with an alien mineral, that grew upon exposure to fungi.

## Terminology

### In other languages

* Eimarin: Vāladara Chorazrod (Great Kinslaying)
* Novantirna: Töl Imârvačo (War of the Star-gods)
* Bujanski: Voina Lōžjobogjav (War of the False Gods)

## Trivia

* The Eimarin Civil War was largely inspired by the rivalry between Transformers and My Little Pony, two toy franchises from the American company Hasbro.
* It was also influenced by the "War in Heaven", in Warhammer 40,000, between the mechanical Necrons and the godlike Old Ones.
* The author came up with the idea of Isodala and Axernel after watching "Halo: Origins".

## See also

* Celestial Age
* Uorimon, a festival mocking the defeat of the Celestial invasion of Jerde.