The War Of Souls

**The War Of Souls** was the first Great War on Solara, soon after the discovery of the First Flame.

## Historiography

### End Date

102FA

Personnel| * Lord Gwyn
* Gravelord Nito
* Havel The Rock
* Witch Of Izalith
* Bahamut
* Kalameet

### **Precursor Events To The War**

The world was once ruled by the Everlasting Ancient Dragons, when it was mostly unformed and filled with Gray Crags. The first of the Dragons and siblings: Bahamut, a male silver dragon and Tiamat, a multi-headed and chromatic dragon both rule the earth but class each other as eternal rivals.

Over time in the Age Before Fire (Or the Dragon Years) many famous dragons are born as Tiamat and Bahamut create dragons in their image that have the ability to procreate. The First known, named, non Primordial Dragon is born approximately between the years 200-400DY and is known as the Black Dragon Kalameet, famous for his single eye that glowed a deep red colour. There are also Great dragons such as Sinh (born between 400-500DY) and Galdur (1100-1200DY), a green Dragon known for being larger than all living Dragons by tremendous amounts. There were also special Dragons such as the King of the Storms (born between 900-950DY) who had the unique ability to conjure great thunderstorms, Seath the Scaleless (born 1300-1400DY), a white paledrake born without any scales and Midir (born 1700DY-1800DY), a dragon born with four large wings.

With the appearance of the First Flame in 1989DY also came the creatures of the darkness, mostly hollowed who discovered souls within the Flame. Four of these souls were filled with Great Power each representing a different aspect of the Earth: Life, Death, Light and Dark.

Gwyn drew power from the Soul of Light, The Witch of Izalith drew power from the Soul of Life, Nito drew power from the Soul of Death and the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten, drew upon the Soul of Dark and split the soul among the creatures of the dark creating the first generation of Humanity.

### **The War Begins**

With the strength of these Great Souls, the four wielders challenged the Dragons for their rule of the world in the year 50FA. Though the beginning of the war, there was very little progress made as the Dragons of Tiamat proved capable in battle, easily destroying the armies of Humanity and so the Great Lords had to rethink their plans.

Many blacksmiths travelled across the lands searching for new ores and metals to help strengthen the armour for the armies and with much searching, a great discovery is made. In the year 63FA, Aldricius discovers a rare magic metal which he forges into a great magic sword, which he gifts to his good friend and warrior Sieghart as a token of their friendship and loyalty. Gwyn also creates an order of Knights for his greatest warriors, called Ornstein, Artorias, Ciaran and Gough. He also makes Havel a commander of his own unit who all donn armour carved from solid rock to prevent the dragonfire from melting them.

In the year 71FA the first great victories of the War of Souls is recorded. First Seath the Scaleless, a paledrake born with no scales and subject to much scrutiny among his kin, betrays his own kind and joins forces with the Great Soul wielders, disclosing their secret. He reveals that the Dragons rely on their scales for protection and that magic can easily destroy them and so the Wielders constructed a plan. Gwyn conjured great bolts of lightning and sunlight, The Witch Of Izalith weaved great firestorms and Nito unleashed a great miasma of death. With these powers combined the war turned drastically against the Dragons.

In the same year Sieghart manages to slay one of the Great Dragon using the power of his sword, by drawing upon its magical power to unleash a great slice of wind that cuts through the air, cutting the Dragon known as Sinh mid flight with his body crashing into the ocean. Sieghart is praised among his peers with Gwyn personally congratulating him. Gwyn also promised Aldricius his own kingdom following the war, for his incredible find and craftsmanship, in which Aldricius then praises Sieghart in turn, promising him his own noble name and house.

By 84FA many of the dragons had already fled the war, with countless of them slain. Gwyns Firstborn son, by this point has proved himself in battle many times, killing dragons using his great lightning imbued Swordspear, with him even fashioning himself armour out of the scales of his fallen foes and become revered as a God of War even gaining his own following, coming to be known as the Warriors of Sunlight, worshipping him as the Heir of the Sun.

Bahamut was captured by Aldricius and Sieghart following a great battle in the mountains after Bahamut was betrayed by Tiamat and his location disclosed to the humans. Ancient magic was then used to bind him and he was imprisoned in a deep underground location known only to Gwyn. With the supposed loss of one of their main leaders, Tiamat becomes the full leader of the War, with Kalameet becoming her second in command. The Great Dragon Galdur also abandons the war seeing its inevitibility.

In the year 101FA Tiamat is defeated in battle with Kalameet fleeing the war. Tiamat is subsequently bound by the same magic as Bahamut and is also taken by Gwyn, imprisoning her deep below the Earth in a different location, giving this location only to Aldricius as he did with Bahamut. In 102FA the remaining dragons in the war are slain and captured, marking an end to the great War of Souls.