The Revocation War

The Revocation War was the inevitable conclusion of the downfall of the Envoys precipitated by the exposure of their policy of assuming the identities of various heads-of-state, it has to be said by the rather brutal gambit of murdering the genuine articles and replacing them with one of their own kind exercising their natural shape-changing talents to seamlessly assume the role.

It seems the catastrophy that would end the Age was inevitable the moment the Elves first exposed the Envoy treachery in the northern Brightstar kingdom. Subjecting the Envoy plan to directly guide geopolitical policy to the full glare of righteous wrath with hindsigh appears a little reckless. Not even Elves see all.

The Council of Self Determination provoked the Overseer to release the Harvester which began the war in earnest.

The first engagements did not go well for the Unity forces, mundane means had no discernible impact on the creature of writhing darkness and many fell before the merciless onslaught with nothing remaining after the beast moved by. A saving grace was its ponderous pace, the Envoy army was slowed enough that the series of delaying actions hindered the enemy sufficiently for settlements in the path of the attacks to be cleared. Refugees poured across the land, their lives saved for a while longer by a heavy price.

A further consequence of these battles was the gathering of information about the composition of the army that travelled with the Harvester; vile abominations that were the corrupted remains of the people who had disappeared from the destroyed relocation caravans and towns. Horrifying creatures shambled with multiple limbs and heads, with claws and tentacles and fangs and horns. Twisted and mutilated with no Will of their own they were commanded by the Envoys who were lead by Ules-eel, the greatest of their generals.

Then came the Battle of Greengrass and the accidental involvement of Khiro Arkadian.