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Galwyndor, at the time of the Great Purge

The Great Purge, also known as the 4th Great War, was a turning point in the history of Galwyndor. This war, which began in EE 4,626, was waged worldwide in an effort to exterminate all beings that could use the omnicrux (or vorsys), commonly known as magic.

Catalyst

A surprise attack on the city-state of Gruen was believed to be the catalyst to the events leading to the Purge. The surprise attack was orchestrated by four Draol magickers with the aid of the Bynalite army. They caught Gruen by surprise by using a Keldra Gateway to transport the troops right to the front gates. The Bynalites, unwittingly, were actually fodder for the Draol vormongers to soak up excessive amounts of magic from their deaths, which they used to infiltrate and destroy the walled city. During the attack, the court's magician, an Eari wizard named Anocast, recognized the Draol style of magic and urged every raven and rider who could be spared to send a message to Meralia, where the Eari council was, to warn them of these developments. However, all riders and birds were killed in a lightning storm produced by the Draol sorceress Ilosa. Seeing this, the caval commander Genther Stormloft was dispatched as well, and he succeeded in surviving the lightning storm by stripping him and his unshod horse of armor to escape.

The Meralian Accord

Stormloft made his way across the sea to Meralia to deliver the news personally, and after initially being dismissed, the Eari council would come to recognize the extent of the threat. A Meeting of Lords was called to the kingdom of Meralia, which ultimately decided to outlaw magic usage in a bid to protect the world from further destruction. This council edict came to be known as the Meralian Accord. A total of twenty-two nations signed the agreement; it should be noted that no representatives from any schools of magic were invited save those from the Eari, and the race without representation was the merfolk. This accord decreed that wielding omnicrux was punishable by death.

In order to facilitate the ultimate extermination, the Eari crafted 8 relics - the Eari Stones - which could soak up and trap magic forever. They instructed special keepers called the Tal Calar how to use the stones, and how to use wraighs to find magic users. A massive multinational army was formed in order to aid the keepers in their task to seek out and exterminate all magic users.

The Great Armies

Two massive forces were assembled to carry out the Great Purge, one in Greater Galwyndor, consisting of forces from each of the nations there who participated in the Meralian Accord, and one force from Lesser Galwyndor, primarily made up of forces from the Aerylothian army and the Gruenor army. This vast coalition of armed forces was called the Great Army. Stormloft, wanting to avenge his family and countrymen, volunteered to lead the army on Lesser Galwyndor.

Last of the Draol

During The Purge, many spellcasters went into hiding in an attempt to escape the fate provided by the Eari Stones, as they were all powerless against them and the wraighs. Atury, one of the last remaining spellcasters of Galwyndor, was hunted down like all the rest. The Gruenor and Aerylothian armies, who led the Alliance, all but decimated Atury's throng of minions; when victory was nearly certain, Atury, in a last-ditch effort to escape, opened a Keldra Gateway, a spell which was beyond his ability, which erroneously transported himself and some of his minions. Led by the Gruenor captain Gunther Stormloft, a small portion of the two armies manages to enter the gateway and pursue Atury to the world of Errod.

For seven years and three moons we pursued the last of the remaining Draol, Atury, only surviving student of Orilac the Wise and the one they called the Glyphmaster. He, accompanied by a small contingent of disciples. It was Jarl Ultar’s forces who first overtook them in the highlands of the Andermark, and held them fast, until Commander Stormloft’s retinue arrived and severed a retreat from the East. Having none of the Eari Stones in our possession therewhen, a fierce battle staying six days ensued. Each side suffered many casualties as we awaited the reinforcements to deliver the Stone into our possession, as we could not defeat the Glyphmaster otherwise. And so we endeavored simply to stave off defeat, losing many lives in the interim. Before we could come into possession of the powerful artifact, on the dawning of the seventh morn, a great chasm rent the sky grown lush with crow near the smoking plain, called forth by the Glyphmaster himself, which swallowed up our prey and a multitude of our allies alike. All who entered this dreadful gateway vanished therewith. ‘Twas there, in the shadow of the Atlicas atop the very bosom of Andermark, where the Fourth War claimed its last. The Great Purge concluded, and therewhen the realms entire tasted the bitterness of magic no more.
—as journaled by the hand of Cpt Bulred Denimir, 3rd Averian Army, 47th Eltry Regiment, 5th Caval

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