Breaking of Chains

The Conflict

Prelude

The Empire at Issithoss remains perhaps the largest, longest reigning, and most successful empire in Khthon's history. Somehow they managed this without any sort of push for integration at all. Their subjects and client states remained subjects instead of citizens and tributaries instead of provinces. The animosity of the peoples they conquered was never stamped out, only buried just below the surface. All it took was a single spark and the entire world went up like a tinderbox. That spark is hotly debated among scholars, but the two largest schools of thought both agree that the first was the Shenate Dynasty. They were a tiny kingdom, and quickly crushed, but the next rebellion and cause of the split between those camps was the city-state of Nydos in Hellenis. Their throwing off of the Yuan-Ti yoke may have been even more one-sided than the Shenate failure to do the same. Once Hellenis saw that it could be done, the other nations rebelled separately but nearly simultaneously. The fire had caught.

Battlefield

Nearly every city on Khthon was the site of its own self-contained battle between its original inhabitants and its Yuan-Ti overlords. The only semi-traditional theater of war was the area surrounding Issithoss itself, where the snake people were numerous enough to win the majority of the initial engagements, and the cities where the transplanted slaves had won banded together to march on those in which they had failed.

Outcome

The end of the war saw the re-establishment of many old civilizations and the founding of several new ones.

Aftermath

Keotihuacati, Kano-Rimpa and Song rise as the new great powers of the world.

Historical Significance

Legacy

The surviving Yuan-Ti are viewed with almost universal mistrust even today.

Battlefield Type

Land

Start Date

2799 Dark

Ending Date

2969 Dark

Conflict Result

The Empire at Issithoss collapsed, and took a continent with them

Location

Khthon