Tarenarin Invasions

"It started quiet enough.

A few patrols went missing.

The taxmen from two-three outlying villages never returned. What few of us that cared assumed it was that Valaco and his northmen mounted a larger raid this year, or that the Artinians grew bold yet again.

By the time the thrice-damned grey mist had enveloped Arde Nowydd itself, it was already too late. None of us knew what had truly been happening behind that wall of shadow and ash.

I rue the day I found out."

-The memoirs of Valen am Athrafal, chronicling the first days of the war. Valen was Camnoir of the North during the latter phases of the invasion.

The Tarenarin Invasions were a prolonged military conflict lasting for over three decades between 2734 and 2770 TC, fought mainly between the Caras Lenanhar and the Tareni Empire, though a multitude of lesser kingdoms and factions rose and fell during the length of the war, aiding either side. It was the largest and most destructive war in history, estimated to have cost the lives of millions of men and elves, with unparalleled destruction caused to entire continents. It saw the end of the Tareni Empire and most of its allies, and ushered an era of decline and ultimate fall of the Dominion near two-hundred years later.

Scholars generally divided the entire conflict into three separate phases, each more destructive than the last.