Military action
Following the attack on Takanda by Xalaxos during the Reign of Emperor A'latl A'latl became enraged. He raised the bones of a skeletal raptor and gathered a throng of Takandan beasts and Tahosian warriors astride his new undead companion. He marched upon the dunes of K'jatar and demanded Xalaxos' surrender, but his forces were ambushed by her sorceresses which decimated his ranks and forced him to flee. The presence of his army in her kingdom was the justification Xalaxos needed for civil war.
The kingdom of K'jatar rallied under the banner of Xalaxos, initiating a siege upon the capital of Tec'Tahos and the rest of the Dynasty's holds. She used her destructive magic to open fissures and chasms, wrack the skies with storms, and made the ground quake so that her armies could march unopposed.
The warfare between the two factions destroyed many temple cities, including Takanda's city of Zicotl and even Xalaxos' city of K'jatar. The forces of Emperor Al'atl pushed the Queen's warrior shamans to the north-western fringes of Tansia.
During the final battle atop the peak of a volcanic mountain, in a fit of rage and spite, Xalaxos unleashed a a cataclysmic spell that destroyed her body, most of her forces, and many of A'latls' armies, creating the jagged wastes known as Xalaxos' Teeth.
A'latl was spared the destruction, rising from the dead infused with Necromantic magic. Xalaxos was defeated, but the victory was bittersweet. To A'latl, a debt was owed to those who died for his war, and the destructive energies that lingered blinded the souls of the dead. A'latl eschewed the temptation of the corrupting magic of necromancy; instead of raising them to finish off Xalaxos' fleeing host, he guided the lost souls of the battlefield through the Gate of Mortality, a feat not even Vauldis anticipated. That day, surviving soldiers of the Dynasty described him as a godly shepherd.
Soon after, Vauldis was revealed by Takanda as the mastermind behind the near-collapse of the Dynasty and was sentenced to be executed by A'latl himself for treason. The dark shaman fled Tansia and sailed to Kalkaross, never to be heard from again until the Sinking of Sekkar & Vauldis Rises to Lichdom centuries later.