History of the Colonial War

This is a summarized version of the book by Jath Kmrad, History of the Colonial War.

In the third age of the history of Erta, Daemr continued it's ever-expanding goals of nautical exploration and colonization. Much of Kezara had Daemrian colonies and ports in this time, as well as on D'thamur Isle. Smaller expeditions were launched from these colonies, continuing southward until the Precipice of Heaven was discovered. The port of Adthar was founded, and the northern peninsula was slowly explored and mined for it's ores. Adthar and it's surrounding colonies were growing rich off the trading of ores with the Far East Trading Co., but were lacking in food and medicinal supplies. The shortage was caused by two outside forces. One being the attacks by Collosi, which raided the smaller villages and colonies and destroyed much of their supplies. Supplies were held in large quantities for long periods of time, in order to survive the cold temperatures, but this lead to great loss whenever Collosi attacked. The other was the war with The Maw. Adthar had no knowledge of the war, but in order to preserve resources Daemr stopped shipping resources to Adthar.

This led to severance between the southern colonies and Daemr, and shared hatred for their home nation which in their eyes abandoned them. Harsh conditions on the Precipice worsened this hatred, and the colonies only choice in these times was to band together. The common name they adopted, Mrth'ra, translates to "The Survivors". Mrth'ra began to stockpile more resources by trading with the Far East Trading Co., and began to establish more international ties as well as infrastructure within their own country. The nation seemed to be on the rise, until the supplies of coal, silver, and iron ran out. The Mrth'ra economy collapsed, and with no agricultural areas the food shortages reached an all-time low. Southern villages, in the mountains, were abandoned as Adthar was flooded with immigrants from the south. Kalia Kmaher, the political and military leader of Mrth'ra decided the nation had only one choice; to invade the homeland.

The immigrants were put to work in the military, their mining skills put to use swinging a sword or axe. With little steel left, Mrth'ra built it's weapons out of stone and wood, and armor out of leather and hide. This makeshift military was underpowered, but was in such great number that Daemr saw the threat and responded.