| Category | Wars | |||
| Period | 1692 - 1694 | |||
| Theater | Azrik | |||
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| Map | Vetoubahr |
In 1683, the final year of Apoxlin's Sentence (1485 - 1683), a renowned general returned home. He had long served the Ba'lith Empire, fighting alongside mortals in The Hells and elsewhere, his skills forged by one of the best. This otherworldly figure, Raxcvillibus, now sought service in Ba'lith's capital, only to be denied. Rax's extensive spy network, built over centuries, revealed that the Church of Coeus had orchestrated this decision, fearing his prolonged exposure to Asmodeus would lead him to covet the emperor's sash.
For the next nine years, he dedicated himself to readying for battle. The overarching aim was to overthrow the Church of Coeus, the governing body of the Ba'lith Empire.
On 9 War March 1692, Raxcvillibus and his command staff, the Lix Tetrax, amassed their forces for war. Traversing the jungles of southern Ma'Ohari and entering Azrik from Tas'dvr Mout, they formed a small yet formidable force built up over two centuries. Among the more unusual elements were the Soul Annihilators, nineteen fire giants that had suffered Drachlaz's experiments, becoming death giants. Mercenary contingents included nearly ten thousand cambion dwarves from Smizerak, a Maleraunt mercenary regiment from Kilth, and four Gol'hakh mercenary companies from Goth-Dyvermoir.
In their southward march, Rax's army initiated a fabricated conflict, leaving ruin and devastation in its wake as it assailed the frontier strongholds of the Torgilm Confederacy (1475 - 1719). North of the Marmarath Fortress, a Ba'lith army, one previously commanded by Raxcvillibus, changed allegiances. Together, they vanquished a dissident army of the Torgilm Confederacy and subsequently seized the formidable river bastion of Marmarath.
With a rich history of serving Ba'lith for over three decades, Rax managed to divide the empire, with numerous units defecting to the side of a renowned commander instrumental in training some of Ba'lith's most skilled military forces.
In the Battle of Ezdynn, Rax's forces secured the river crossing through a nighttime assault. Inflicting substantial casualties, he unleashed the Soul Annihilators to harass the retreating enemy as mortars on river barges rained shells across the battlefield. Shaken by the loss of confidence in their commanders and leaders, the subsequent phase of Rax's campaign became known as the Coeus Civil War (1694 - 1697).