The Necromancers' War
The Necromancers' War
- When: 1520–1600 STC (~80 years of war against the undead)
The Undead Nobility
Following the migration triggered by The Cataclysm, a powerful faction of necromancers — largely drawn from former Ikosian nobility seeking immortality — attempted to seize control of the fragmented human settlements. They mass-produced armies of the dead, utilizing the corpses of the fallen, and sought to establish an eternal ruling class of intelligent undead.
The Exile to Ulquaan Ibasa
The living kingdoms of Altazia, unified by existential terror and coordinated heavily by the newly re-established Triumvirate Church, fought a desperate war of extermination.
The living won. However, the cost of utterly destroying the entrenched undead leadership was deemed too high. Instead, a treaty was struck: the surviving necromancers, liches, and intelligent undead were forcibly exiled to the remote, monster-infested island of Ulquaan Ibasa in the Nerud Archipelago. They were permanently banned from the mainland under threat of total annihilation — a tense ceasefire that has held, barely, to the modern day.