Viscaronn II a royal grey drake, who ruled Máurdorne for almost 1,000 years sought peace and friendship with the rest of the world, specifically Oskiliath. A rise in nationalism and fear of dragons across the neighboring state of Oskiliath led the leader, Grande Amir Unsuel to actively hunt drakes and the dragonborn people, throwing them in prisons, deporting them or killing them. It was the attacks on his kind, the dragonborn, and rise of the racist discrimination of that brought the nations into a time of contention, leading Viscaronn II to declare war upon Oskiliath.

The war lasted for more than 10 years, with heavy losses to the Oskiliath side, especially that of the vassal state of Bukká Mortainé. The vassal states of Bukká Mortainé, BeJórne and Seabart Pictorius surrendered in 18,049. This is believed to be due to the cascading support effect – with Bukká Mortainé surrendering first, Seabart lost its coastal support and defences, and with Seabart surrendering, BeJorne lost its main land buffer. A large offensive push by Máurdórne prompted the start of the surrenders. Viscaronn II pleaded with the other vassal states to turn on the capital of the Vale and Unsuel’s administration, to which the state of Skalt accepted, turning against the protectorate in 18,052. It is said that Skalt always being a less subservient nor loyal vassal state, they were compelled to change sides by the fact they were fighting an uphill struggle.

After the sundering, Maurdórne essentially but unofficially surrendered. But the matter of Skalt vs. the protectorates remained – as such Bukká Mortainé washed their hands of the whole thing, becoming independent, and Skalt appealed to the two now independent states of BeJórne and Seabart Pictorius to join the cause in removing Unsuel’s administration. A steady alliance between the two states and Skalt formed on the belief that Unsuel had committed war crimes. The whole nation plunge into a civil war which was quite passive as both sides were completely out of troops and money, which is why things progressed at a snail’s pace.

In this period, Oskiliath broke in half, with the then loyal states to Unsuel forming eastern Oskiliath, and the others forming the west. Unsuel ruled the east until 18,168, when he was assassinated by Máurdornié sympathisers from the west. The remainder of Unsuel’s delegates and forces were crushed by the leader of the west, Yemil de Kord. Yemil reunified the nation over the course of 15 years before Oskiliath finally became whole again and promised a time of peace, making efforts to rebuild the nation. He also offered aid of up to 50% of Oskiliath’s wealth to Máurdórne for the next 50 years as a token gesture in the hopes that the change of governance and power in Oskiliath would mark the end to Maurdórnie persecution. The unstable governance of Máurdórne that barely held much sway over the anarchy of the lands it claimed to rule, declined the offer.

On august 1st 18,436, a hooded figure stood in the direct line of fire of the Orion, holding out his hand in the air, he shone of pure light some witnesses say, as he deflected all its fire back upon it. Badly disabling it and leading it to crash into the ground. At the exact same time, reports from across the globe came flooding in that the Anduwin’s great machines had started glowing, moving or operating. Light shone from ancient armour and relics and the people of the world saw this as a blessing.

In 18440 the aggression of the emperor and the maurdorne as a whole begun to build once more. The armistice collapsed and the world fell back into war. Fighting in Oskiliath broke out after it was found out that the Emperor had secretly annexed Bukka Mortaine, and used unknown magic to conceal this from the world. The Andromeda, the second Maurdornie warship, laid waste to Oskiliath, destroying the city of Emmelrost, and capturing multiple key points including the Vale.

Meanwhile, a last band of heroes had traveled to the Ozmit, where they were able to call upon Y’shaj to assist in the destruction of the empire. Although successfully recruiting her to their side, they were powerless to stop what had seemed to be inevitable…

The Emperor was just a puppet for the fallen Anduwin know as Nezhar – who had driven Venarinn, the Emperors rtrue identity – mad from grief of his fallen brother. This madness allowed Venarinn to assume multiple identities unbeknownst to each other. It was at the Cataclysm of Nezhar that this was brought to a head, and with the help of Viscaronn II, they were able to kill and thus lay Venarinns soul to rest. The Grey Drake dynasties blood truly spent, the Maurdornie war was brought to an abrupt end.

The watchful peace is the period after the Cataclysm of Nezhar. It is a time of great change, and territorial expansion.