Editing The War of Many Names

{{Worldbuilders}}[[File:SecondHolyWarEnd.jpg|thumb|345x345px|The end of the War looked dramatically different than the beginning, in part due to the rampant innovation and industrialization of the realm over the end of the [[PR]] era. ''(Image Souce: The Smithsonian)'']]
'''The War of Many Names''' was the second realm-wide, centuries-long war against [[Tiamat]] the Dragon Queen, after her return in 793 [[PR]], and the countless Dragons she had been raising for nearly a millennium on the island of [[Kiston]]. The War lasted so long, and evolved on so many fronts, that it is still highly debated whether it should be treated as one very big war, or broken up for the distinct wars that rose and fell over the centuries.

== List of Names ==

=== The War of Dragons ===
(785-850 PR)

=== Realm War II ===
(851-900 PR)

Tiamat's political machinations pitted her foes against one another. As during the first Realm War, political regions across Quelmar clashed over territory and resources, but now dragons continued to ravage the land.

=== The Second Holy War ===
(901-1000 PR)

As part of the second holy war, [[Tiamat]]'s alliance with the other Archdukes and Archduchess lead to a special [Unnamed] pact that was used throughout the war, in which souls across Quelmar that were en route to their afterlives were sometimes intercepted and convinced to work against the realm, being given a chance to return to Quelmar and keep living, but as vengeful wraiths, [[Ghost|ghosts]], spirits, and "psychobombs" (derived from psychopomps).

This would lead to the creation of [[The Hermes Seal]].

Some cities were hit much harder from the oncoming [[Ghost|ghosts]] than others, with two notable cities affected by the "Holy War" being [[Ahol]] and [[Al'Adeaf]]. In the case of [[Ahol]], the city eventually devised a series of [[Spirit Wardens]] who processed all dead bodies to prevent ghosts from returning and attacking the city from the inside, while [[Al'Adeaf]] devised a way to keep ghosts peaceful and help them access the afterlife in the form of spritual statues built in the likeness of the departed. 

=== The War of Red Water ===

=== The War of [[Apotheosis]] ===
(1001-1010 [[PR]])

=== The Final Push ===
(1101-1270 PR)

=== The Cataclysm ===
(1270-1295 PR)

== Combatants ==

=== Tiamat's Armies ===
Tiamat enlisted the full force of the dragons in Kiston, as well as unlimited supplies of draconic armies, pulled from sources still unknown. For ground attacks, Tiamat used both [[Draconian|Draconians]] and [[Draco-Orc|Draco-Orcs]]. Draco Orcs were reserved mostly for operations closer to their homeland of Kiston.

== History ==

* In 999 [[PR]] it was known that '''[[List of Quelmar Drugs|Kraken Blood]]''' was a popular performance enhancer employed by armies all over. 
* At one point approaching the year 1000 [[PR]], [[The Hermes Seal]] was enacted, devised by the gods of [[Olympia]] in [[Arborea]], it forged a pact between rulers of the Outer Planes and limited how souls could enter the afterlife.

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