Three Hundred Year War

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The Three Hundred Year War was a Kalshanese civil war. When the king and queen were inspecting the condition of the city of Branwithe, an arrow came from an unidentified location and pierced straight through the heart of the queen. The tradition and proper course of action would have been, since one of the monarchs had died, the choosing of a new set of king and queen. However, the king refused to abdicate the throne. Instead, he sent the guard sweeping through the city, in an enraged attempt to discover the assassin.

The city was devastated and the killers were not found, his goal unfulfilled. His actions instead brought caused a grief felt throughout the nation as the population for the first time feared their own leader. Some reacted by turtling in, attempting to stay as secluded as possible; others attempted to continue their lives normally, just without doing anything that may be frowned upon by the king. There were a few, however, who reacted with anger. They decided that the king's outburst showed a failure in the system, and that said system had to be removed at any cost. Secretly, an army was gathered and trained to depose the king, and thus began the Three Hundred Year War.

The war started with a failed siege on the capital in which the rebels had greatly underestimated the security that the king had imposed on Felthria. A counterattack on the king's part also failed as the fleeing rebels were more efficient in their escape than the king's forces were in their attack. For the next three hundred years, there was constant battling throughout the countryside. The leaders of each side changed several times during the war, and near the end, only the historians could remember what the war was even about.

After three hundred of years of war, a plan was devised by the Church of Falis to end the war. Through teaching the children various fictional tenants of the faith and preaching the same to the adults, the elves of Kalshana were united in a common goal: expelling from their nation the infidel humans who had started the conflict. The humans, who had become more and more of a minority over the course of time, fled the country for less hostile locations. Thus began the Kalshanese Dark Age, during which the Church governed.

Not much is known of the Dark Age, except that it was obnoxiously hard for accurate records to be kept, and that it was a struggle merely to survive. Over time, however, the racist notions that had become associated with the Church faded into the mists of obscurity. A memorial was established in honor of those who fought in the war, around of the grave of the queen who caused the war. Eventually, the some of the more revolutionary members of the Church pressed a motion to put the government in the hands of the people, and a constitution was written, rewritten, and amended half to death, till eventually it was in its current form.

Several hundred years later, we are in modern Kalshana. There are still a very small handful of very old high elves who still remember the days even before the War, though you would be hard pressed to find them.

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