N/Legends/First Fiend War

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• 695: The fiends were finally ready to come out into the open and confront the power of the Third Empire. However, as of yet humanity had still yet to discover the power of magic for their own purposes, while the fiends had always had some magic as their gift from Lamoth, and thus humanity was in a major disadvantage, as was the case with the dragons. Now they struck out at a small village, and overnight the population vanished, abducted into the nearby woods. A scouting party was dispatched from the town of Arkanros, several hundred strong, into the woods. But they came out with half their number, wailing for their lost brethren and complaining of how many tricky death-traps were hidden away in the woods; ordinary difficulties that would be simple nuisances in most cases were always deadly in that woods, and their men died left and right from unknown causes. The scouting party retreated back to Arkanros, convincing Emperor Tywy that there was something grave prowling in those woods.
• 695-697: During the subsequent two years, those woods became darker and darker, and people in the surrounding places became increasingly terrified with being anywhere near the place during the night. Disappearances mounted, resulting in whole settlements becoming deserted as those who could, escaped to some farther place untainted by the corruption of Lamoth's fiends.
• 697: Emperor Tywy sent out another scouting party, this time two-pronged, to cut through the woods from two opposite sides, attempting to catch the fiends in between them. The attempt utterly failed, as more and more disappearances took place. One entire party disappeared in the woods. The others, having travelled all the way through the woods and back into the sunlight, had lost most of their number and still had found nothing. In the subsequent weeks, Emperor Tywy ordered the construction of outpost forts around the woods, and advised that those living near the woods evacuate immediately.