Post by Bluestorm on Jan 21, 2018 18:36:34 GMT
The Centaur Civil War
The sixteenth centaur king, Himeni Kadaris, was a weak ruler. He withdrew the strong centaur cavalry from his southern border, where they protected centaur farmers from the raids of the Haran Rainforest elves. Some of the members of the council of centaur lords that helped him to rule became disgruntled that he refused to listen to them, and began to plot against him.
However, the leader of the traitors, Kivellan Tieri, revealed their plot to a centaur lord he thought would be sympathetic to their cause, Himeni’s own son, the ambitious Reminni Kadaris. But he over-estimated Reminni’s ambition, and Reminni told his father of the plot. The traitors were forced to flee the city with their households and hid out in the countryside.
But the mayor of Orston, at that time a growing market town, sided with the traitors, and took them in to his town. They began to find supporters all over the Peragun Plains, and soon they had amassed a large army. They sent a messenger to the king, asking him to surrender to them or prepare for war. Himeni was furious, and sent them back the messenger’s head.
Thus began the centaur civil war. The traitors, believing they had the stronger army, attempted to strike a decisive blow and end they war swiftly. They had, however, bargained on Himeni’s incompetence as a general, but Himeni had placed his son in charge of the army.
The traitors besieged Ryaina, cutting off the supply lines, but Reminni led a small force out a secret passageway, and as they drew the traitors’ army’s attention, the royalist main force thundered out of the city gates and slammed into the army’s rear, routing them.
Reminni pursued the traitors’ army into the hills, where they scattered and he was unable to finish them off. Meanwhile, Kivellan, still in Orston, was gathering a second army, from what supporters he could still find, and the remnants of the first.
In the end, it was not a battle that truly ended the war. While Reminni pursued the traitors’ army into the dragonspine mountains, his patrol was caught in an avalanche, and none survived. Seizing the moment, Kivellan led the second army and took Ryaina, easily defeating the defending force. Himeni surrendered, and Kivellan exiled him and the few who still followed him to the great desert. Kivellan and his successors became the new rulers of the Peragun plains, starting the Tieri Dynasty.
In the great desert, Himeni and his followers walked for days, until they discovered a great oasis, where they built the city of Ajihad. The Kadaris Dynasty ended with Himeni, and his successor, Tahiri Ghavellen, began a new line.