Great War

The Great War, also known as the Planar War, was a thousand-year long conflict between the various races of Celestium, the Western Continent on Mortium, and Abyssium. The war was initiated by the abyssal Empire of Judek against the celestial Kingdom of Illumina after they learned the technology to create planeports and portkeys. The majority of the war's conflicts occurred on Mortium due to Mortium being the bridging plane that connected the other two. At first, the mortal races only suffered the side effects of the other two planes' devastating war, but 200 years after the beginning of the war, both celestials and abyssals began to raid mortal settlements for resources and magical weapons. Almost every civilization in the Western Continent formally entered the conflict in an attempt to pacify the extraplanar threat. After the Empire of Judek successfully transported a Desolator from Abyssium into Mortium and used its destructive power to raze the Menetar city of Sterdam to the ground, the warlords of Menetar petitioned the entire Western Continent for an alliance to finally end the threat. Lantria, the United Dominion, and the city-states along the Great Gem Road answered Menetar's call. Over the next three hundred years, the mortal races slowly and successfully drove back the celestial and abyssal armies. With great losses and a growing demonic threat in Abyssium, the Empire of Judek petitioned for a ceasefire. The other two planes, weary of the fighting, readily agreed. Soon after, the leaders of all three planes met in Tellemetra to sign the Tellemetra Accords to formally end the Great War. Though tensions remained between the Three Realms, the planes have not seen a conflict as widespread or as destructive as the Great War.