War of the Nine and the Three
The Conflict
Prelude
Alaria Nineslaw rose to power within the Church of the Nine as their High Hierophant of the Knights of the Nine, unusual for a lowborn musketeer to first rise to knighthood within the order, and then became their High Hierophant. Many speculated as to how she managed to rise to such power, but it was quite simple--she had a vision and the drive to pursue it, which the Knights had lacked for centuries since the end of the crusades. They had become an outdated, ceremonial organization with no use on the contemporary battlefield. Alaria changed that by turning them into a highly trained, driven force of mounted swordsmen and musketeers, capable of rapidly deploying to enforce the will of the Nine. Within a few years, she had gained enough influence and power of the whole of the Church of the Nine to turn it into a major religious-political powerhouse. Horrified by what she saw as moral decadence and royal oppression throughout the continent, she called for a new crusade to unify the continent once again and restore peace and prosperity to the continent. Caught by surprise and split by their own feuds and wars, the other small kingdoms of what was once Losgard were caught in a war they never expected. Torn by the split, and encompassing too many factions, it was eventually decided to call it the War of the Nine and the Three to encapsulate the religious origin and how monarchs aligned with each pantheon sided with their respective religion, even sometimes against their own people. Indeed, much of the fighting in the war was done not by Alaria's forces, but sectarian movements that sought to overthrow their ruling government and replace it with the politicized religion of the Nine.
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