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First War of the Power

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Character  Belád BonceduilCharacter  OzcuraCharacter  OrcLocation  World of Aiers

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Battle of Polforia. The human-elven forces of the Army of the Whide Axis breaks the left flank of the demonic army: the assembled, last legions of the Dark Legion in the left flank where the bottom of the barrel of the Legion of the Demons, formations done with unreliable allies, vassals and survivors of previously disbanded legions of previous legions, along with many of the last avaible conscripts in the demonic lands.

The leaders of the Whide Axis detected the weakness of the left flank and pushed further into it, breaking the line. The demons tried to send their last reserves avaible to hold of the left -personal guards of demons and dragons-, but the battle was already all but lost with the enemy heavy cavalry pouring over the center from the broken line:

The demons and their core of most loyal servants retreated to the citadel of Dol-Nur, while most of the last legions, fastened at the very last moment to face the triumphant armies of the Venerable Empire of the Whide Axis, the Unlic Empire of Uslen, the Kingdom of Purpurian, the Five Kingdoms of the Northwest, the Principalties of Hannian and the Dwarven Fortresses of the West, simply disbanded into the swamps and haunted lands of Polforia, seeking to escape the elves and humans.




The First War of the Power, also know as the War of the Powers or War of the Powerful was fought between the 2.203 until 2.223 since the aparition of the Humans (a.H).

BACKGROUND



Since the beginning of the human age (the year 1 of the a.H), the aparition of the humans became a factor of inestabiliy in the world of Aiers, triggering what will be called the AGE OF INVASIONS, or as well know as Early Human Age.

In the beginning, the settlement of humans was somewhat pacific, but produced a serie of migrations -who produced as well more invasions and migrations- wich make crumble the High Elven Empire, wich extended between Ushaenor, Aels and Zarhuy.

Despise the severe comeback suffered by the humans by the sudden desaparition of their civilization the 100 a.H, 300 years later, the 400 a.H began the proces of human expansion, wich will last until the contemporary times.

The humans and their Kanov cousins migrated from Zarhuy to Aels and Hieyoks, pushing away the previous settlers and native inhabitants, or incorporating them into their new nations and kingdoms.

The more competitive, numerous and fierce Kanov and Humans quickly take possetion of the better lands for their economic production bassed in farms and livestock:

However, once it was sorted the Human and Kanov preminence in some of the more important territories, began the conflict between the Kanovs and the Humans, being Polforia an excelent example, where the wars, skirmishes and weak peaces will exist in quick sucession since the 500 a.H.

Meanwhile in the south, human nations as Ighipus, Farsian, Uslen and Dume will rise, combat each other and fall for the hegemony of the sea of Caritz, adding to this kanov nations like Blazakhov.

Dume, a human republic since the 691, and with centuries become the larger and more powerful Empire of Caritz, when in an island in the middle of the Dumian Empire, an unknow and new treat appeared:

The Daimons.

The 1.365, after an eruption of the Mount Demonach in the Island of Satanmet, the Daimons (or demons) suddendly appeared, and they destroyed the rich comercial cities of the island, compromissing the Aels-Caritz-Hieyoks trade routes.

The Dumian Empire sended an army to defeat the newcomers, but the sucesive attemps in conquering the island failed: And so, slowly, the rising power of the Demonic Republic began to expand:

the 1398, the Nigromancer conquered the islands of Tok-Thoria from the Dumian Empire, and since the 1.400, the raids and attacks of demons over the lands of the empire will become constant, and a serie of wars will be fought.

However, despise their decadence and division, the dumian general Aercos finally defeated partially the demons the 1.500 a.H, forcing them to abandone Satanmet, and migrate to the north of Aels:

However, the demons-human rivalry continued, and the Demonic Republic reagrouped their forces and centrated their attacks in the Human-Kanov Vakkusta Empire:

However, their numbers weakened, the Daimons signed the first of the many treaties and alliances they will sign in their story: Allied with humans, kanovs and other species, enemies of the Vakkusta Empire, they orchestrated the fall of the Vakkustas...

And then, they unleashed their barbarian, monsters and their own forces, united under the banner of the Dark Legion, against the Northern Dumian Empire:

Dume, the capitol of the city, will finally fall the 1.676 a.H, giving to origin the DARK AGE OF DEMONS.

However, the victory of the demonic republic was also his end, as in the following years the powerful generals who gained importance in the war will create their own kingdoms, being the mayor -nominal- emperor of the demons Sataan, who settled in Polforia.

However, to dominate the disputed territory of Polforia wasn't easy, less with the need to not only fight humans and kanovs, but as well competing demonic states.

However, the 1.869 a.H, Sataan conquered most of Polforia, ending the Kanov-Demon war, and then with his power consolidated, began to plan the next step: to conquer all Polforia, as well the Human kingdoms in Sargos and Uslen.

Until the 2.203, the beginning of the "Great War of the Power", the demons fighted a serie of minor wars, signed alliances and occuped territories:

They united once again, under their Dark Banner, the Dark Legion:

A union of all the species, races, nations and tribes enemies of the Humans, who where expelled of their original lands, killed and raided by them, or who simply feared the human expansion and their agressive ways of impossing their culture and religion by force or annexion.

The Dark Legion was viewed as the reunion of the "Free Nations" against the evil power and opression of the humans...

Finally, when Sataan and his main generals, as Satman, the Nigromancer of Tok-Thoria, the witch king of Dol-Nur and others decided they massed enough forces, it was time to began the war...

OUTBREAK OF WAR

the 2.203 a.H, the Dark Legion was ready:
Demons, Kanovs, human vassals, blood elves, drows, dwarves, beast people, orcs, harpies, gargoyles, trolls, goblins, gigants, fauns, Hattak, ozcuras, lycantropes and all the forces were ready, concentrated in two principal points:

Morod in Polforia, comanded by Sataan himself, and Hortann, the defiled "sacred mountain",under the orders of the right hand, Satman, in Uslen:

The first target of Sataan were the Amazon tribes that lived in the north of Polforia -Nortender, Helzig and Hieyokscream- a first step to guard their rear, and then to use the mountain passes of Navatiak to fall over the North-western christian human kingdoms:

The Amazon tribes resistence where brave, but they where outmatched and quickly defeated by the Dark Legion:

and before they where ready, all the human christian North-west of Aels was flooded by the Dark Legion, crossing their armies in Navatiak and the Degoland pass:

DEMONIC PHASE:

One by one, the human kingdoms of Degoland, Sargos, Huncle, La Cruz and Botania, fall to the imparable tide of the Dark Legion.

Meanwhile, in the south, Satman attacked the more powerful human kingdom of central Aels, Purpurian, defeating them after a much more harder campaign.

After that, the Dark Legion continued with the assault of the human pagans of Enket, who resisted with guerrilla warfare, much for Satman frustration, unable to win a decicive battle, turning the mass of his forces against Uslen...

Between the 2.203 and the 2.208, all the main human kingdoms of Aels had fallen, and only existed as pocket of resistence the remanents and the weaker kingdoms:

It was like the "Confederation of Free Nations", the official name of the enemies of Humanity of the Dark Legion had succed in re-taking their lands and defeating the human amenace...

However, some Sargonic refugees, who escaped from the fall of the Kingdom of Sargos who escaped to the island of Liohn, fearing that even there the Dark Legion could reach them, or the local subyugated population of Grey Elves could betray them, sended some expeditions to discover a new safe haven for them:

And so, they discovered the Continent of Ushaenor, and they finded the High Elven Empire of Whide Axis.

ELVEN PHASE

Is quite unclear what determinated the High Elves of Ushaenor to not only receive the humans and refugees, but to join them in the War of the Power: Comercial interests, revanchism or interests in retaking for them back the long ago lost colonies of Aels, the point is that after lengthy discussions, the Venerable Empire of Whide Axis entered the war the 2.209:

A new, massive expedition was prepared in what will become the last High Elven 'cruzade': the last and larger campaign they ever launched.

A massive High (and ash) Elven, reinforced with human refugees of Aels and humans of Ushaenror crossed the sea.

After recruiting reinforcements and mercenaries in islands like Akresh and Liohn, the expedition landed in Botania:

The arrival of the new enemy take by surprise the Dark Legion, and with their forces spreaded in the conquested territories previosuly in the war, so when the Whide Axis marched to the south, they encountered and destroyed several smaller fractions of the Dark Legion.

The Elven commanders, following the advice of Akresh mercenaries rather than their Sargonic allies -in wich they never truly trusted- decided to march to south, to liberate the larger human kingdoms of Aels, where they will be able to reinforce their forces before the assault of Polforia.

In Barlans, Bultr bridge, Dol-Sorne, the sands of Iperto and Aldehidy, the Whide Axis defeated several armies of the Dark Legion.
The 2.213, they began the siege of the fortress of Satman in Hortan, meanwhile reinforces conscripted in Uslen joined their ranks, and human-Kanovs from Farsia and Blazakhov attacked from the south the forces of Satman and the Nigromancer of Tok-Thoria.

After the victory, the army of the Whide Axis marched to the north, fighting and defeating the Dark Legion in Gnomia, the cold steppes, the wall of Dargoina mountains, entering in the demonic lands in Polforia:

In one of the last battles in Polforia, the dark legion was once again defeated, and the 2.221 the Whide Axis began the siege of Dol-Nur, the larger demonic fortress, wich will fall only the 2.223 a.H

2.223 PEACE

Dol-Nur finally falled:
almost 3 years of siege where needed, but in the end the mayor demons as Sataan and Satman were captured, and the Dark Legion was dispersed: not completely defeated, but disbanded and without the mayor generals, and only unificators of such an heterogeny force as the Dark Legion was:

As solution, the wise and wizards of Whide Axis decided that even if they kill the Great Demons, they wouldn't be able to stop them from raising again, so they bringed the prisioners back to the Island of Satanmet, where everything begin, and they sealed with their more powerful magic the demons, once again, inside the Mount Demonach...




In the image, a middle-aged Belád Bonceduil, conscript of the army of Whide Axis, fighting a mixed unit of the Dark Legion, composed of several kinds of demon servers, commanded by demons themselves. 

Is notable the mosly human equipment Belád uses, as the forces of Whide Axis supplies come mostly from humans.

The Dark Legion of the first War of the Power was numerous, but aside from the demon troopers, lacked the equipment and discipline, and the bulk of their forces where unreliable.

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edit 27.03.2016: Found the old drawing and decided to fix it, re-scan and add as well in PS additional lights and shadows!
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