Falglorian Unification War

Commonwealth of East Falglor

On the Commonwealth side, the leader of the East Falglorian forces was Duke Alastair Stewart, a distant cousin and trusted ally of Elspeth. Alastair was mostly granted the position by way of politics, but was sort of proven in battle, commanding a few peasant forces in the Splintering and putting down minor rebellions in the Commonwealth in the years leading up to the Eight Year's War. He was no military genius, but whatever he lacked he hoped to make up for with a cabinet of military advisors. Under him were a number of nobles who had remained loyal to East Falglor who brought their own personal forces and troops into the war with them, such as Viscount Cadoc Pugh, the noble in charge of the garrison of Westrock, and Earl Harold Acker, who was second in command of the Commonwealth Army in the West, who had earned his position through both connections and a victory against the Royal Army that had gotten him promoted to the position.

The Commonwealth had a medium sized army, mostly comprised of conscripted peasant levies. Their army was hardly equipped, counting on the peasants to bring most of their equipment while allocating most of their best armor and weapons to the personally commanded forces of some of the nobles. Because of this, the quality per quantity ratio was terribly proportioned, with a thin minority being well-equipped units personally supplied by nobles and a vast majority being undersupplied peasant soldiers. To supplement both the manpower and the quality issue, the Commonwealth often employed the use of Uthani mercenaries.

Of the nobles that stayed with East Falglor, a great many of them were loyal to the Commonwealth and had bet a lot on the alliance's victory, and as such they contributed heavily to the army. Many nobles used their own personal troops as elite units within the army, contributing their resources and wealth to help the Commonwealth out. Much distrust and scheming to take power did take place behind the scenes, but for the most part, the nobles did place securing a victory over West Falglor over their own issues and grievances with the government and each other.

City-State of Gal Agapito

The army of Gal Agapito was small, barely numbering five hundred, nearly 1200 with peasant conscripts. Their navy also had chunks taken out of them as some Admirals defected or deserted when faced with the fact that they were going to war with West Falglor. Regardless they remained the premier naval power in the alliance, and were fairly competent when it came to sea battles, winning multiple naval and coastal battles with the relatively underfunded Royal Navy. Their main naval commander was Admiral Alasne Marinelarena, known as the 'Leviathan of the South' for her ability and accomplishments in sea battles against the Royal Navy. She was raised to the rank of Admiral of the Fleets for her contribution in putting down the South Sea Revolt and her tremendous ability in putting down a number of pirates and other enemies of state on the sea.

When it came to the land forces, Captain Unai Otxoa was the commander of the miniscule forces of Gal Agapito. Otxoa was a prominent member of the city elite, and as such was given the title of Captain as more politicking than in regards to any actual military ability. In that regard he was an imbecile, forcing the army into unfavorable positions many times and relying heavily on faulty or outdated intelligence to make his decisions, without much a grasp on any of the fundamentals of warfare. He was reviled by many of the soldiers of the army and was not liked within both the armed forces elite nor the civilian elite.

Gal Agapito, with their manpower shortages, was one of the forefront customers of mercenaries, hiring entire companies to fight for them. By the middle of the war, nearly three quarters of their army were mainly mercenaries, giving all the downsides of having a predominately mercenary army.

Tomachi

Tomachi was no better than the rest of the aforementioned alliance. It itself was undergoing terrible internal stability issues. Tomachi itself was a state cobbled together by Alammaran conquerors who thought that lumping the entirety of the cultures together in a singular province/region looked good on a map. As such, throughout the Period of Chaos and much of the Falglorian Unification War they suffered from heavy infighting and weakness caused by continual uprisings and revolts. Each noble within the country had their own army and own chain of command, meaning that no one really knew what was going on and there was little coordination between forces.

While on paper Tomachi possessed the second largest army in the alliance, most of it were the personal armies of nobles, some of which either didn't see a point in fighting West Falglor, or sided with West Falglor in the war. Of the forces that did fight Falglor, most of the armies were heavily undersupplied and low morale peasants, with personal units of the nobility rarely taking part in the fighting, if ever. As such, they were rarely able to raise such a large army, let alone keep it together as a coherent unit for long periods of fighting.

Fervoni Holy Union

The Fervoni Holy Union was the main powerhouse of the alliance, providing most of the financial support needed for most nations to fund their armies and contributing their own forces to fight West Falglor. The Union was an established power, one of the main arbiters of military might during the days before the Alammar Empire, and even within the Empire it continued in its influence and authority. Post-Splintering it had emerged with a large army and much public support from a great number of local and foreign churches all across the world in spite of the decline of religiosity.

Coming into the war it had the largest army of the alliance and was the most unaffected by the Period of Chaos. The only real flaws was that the Holy Union didn't possess a navy of any kind and was geographically located in the north, meaning it couldn't bring their full forces to bear against the Kingdom of West Falglor, plus the fact that they had to pay a number of taxes to Uthan for the ability to march their troops through the Efil Pass. As such the morale for the Fervoni troops was often low, with few actually knowing why they were fighting.

In command of the Fervoni troops was Great Defender of the Armies of the Gods (more commonly abbreviated to just Defender-Commander) Siegfried Meier, who underwent all the different trials needed to assume leadership of the army, and had been approved by both a bare majority in the United Council and the Grandmaster. Siegfried might have also gotten his role because he was a former member of the Alammaran elite and had powerful family connections within the church and was only elected due to politicking, though that fact is up for debate. Regardless, he was a competent enough commander during the Eight Year's War, though a bit conservative and crabby with his manpower and resources.

Halfway through the war Siegfried died by sudden heart failure, dying before he could be rushed to a healing mage. Some suspect it was his older age getting to the Defender-Commander, others suspect it was West Falglorian assassination, others think it was The Cult of Zelial. In any point, he was replaced in the role of Defender-Commander by Siamak Hatami, who was actually very competent, though by the time he had been raised to a position of leadership, the war was already lost. Siamak came to the role by way of repeated victories under his command on multiple fronts, proving himself worthy in the eyes of the churches.

Kingdom of West Falglor

The Kingdom of West Falglor was a rising power in the south. It had inherited a plurality of the Imperial Army from the Alammar Empire post-Splintering, contained multiple key-resource and production areas, a large population, and favourable geography. Not to mention that the Royal Army contained some of the brightest figures on military theory in the world at the time, people like Harold Caxaton, who revolutionized military theory for the next few centuries, laying out a whole plan for an entire reformation of the Royal Army, its ranks, separation from the nobility, and the different avenues of authority based on merit, coming up with ideas that were ridiculously ahead of the time.

These plans and reforms, however, would be delayed and lobbied due to the nobles disagreeing heavily with being locked out of the military. These military reforms would be partially put into place, though nowhere near their full intended outcome by the time the Falglorian Unification War broke out. They would later be fully enacted and put into place by James the First during his campaign against the nobility.

The commander of the army when the Falglorian Unification War broke out was General Hegio Plautus, a former top military commander in the Imperial Army who had defected to rebel forces following the Splintering. To buy his loyalty he was made a Baron and given his own realm, which did accomplish its task of buying goodwill pretty nicely. Regardless, Hegio was one of, if not the most competent and best military leader of the entire war, utilizing new technologies, new strategies, listening to field commanders, even leading his troops on the ground in more than one occasion.

The Royal Army itself was heavily powerful on paper. Most of its men were veterans of the Splintering and the different revolts and uprisings that had occurred in the Period of Chaos, and their ranks were large enough to not need to hire many mercenaries nor levy a large percentage of peasants, meaning that their agricultural base could remain intact throughout the war and not suffer tremendously in a prolonged war. Their army was also very well equipped, West Falglor possessing a large amount of ore and smithies willing to turn that raw ore into weapons and armor for the Royal Army.

However, what was probably the most important advantage and advancement for West Falglor is probably their revolutionary strategy of incorporating mages into the Royal Army. The program, spearheaded by Lodema Hulle, a mage herself, sought to produce or train mages on a large scale and integrate them into the army. This proposal, devised just around nine months before the Splintering, was approved by the at-the-time governor and later King of West Falglor. While the program was in its infancy by the time the Falglorian Unification war broke out, it was more than enough for the legions of alliance soldiers who had little to no mages, leading to total West Falglorian victories in head-on battles. The program would evolve and grow as the war raged on. Lodema would later be named Captain of the Magic Forces of Falglor, and serve until her death.

While the alliance and different nations around the Continent did have mages fighting in their armies during this period, it was usually isolated incidents of mages volunteering to join the army rather than something so institutionalized like in West Falglor. Attempts to forcefully recruit large numbers of mages were considered, but rarely carried out due to the innate ability of said mages to just fireball whoever came knocking. It was deemed impossible to carry out, and many nations simply didn't have the public support or resources to integrate any large amounts of magic users into the military, so when West Falglor did it, word spread quickly, though many were uncertain of how Falglor actually carried it out.

Conflict

The Falglorian Unification War, or the Eight Year's War began on the second year of the new calendar, on the eighth of Primum, beginning when West Falglorian troops began to clash with Eastern Falglorian soldiers and defenses, prompting the rest of the alliance to declare war on the Kingdom of West Falglor. Initial Commonwealth forces put up a decent fight, but were no match for the Royal Army, who punched through the frontline, causing a near total collapse of the Eastern frontline as demoralized and hastily raised levies retreated in droves once they heard the heavily extolled West Falglorian Army marching toward them.

The Fervoni Holy Union possessed the most troops of the alliance and was the most powerful and established of the bunch. But, unlike the rest of the alliance, it is not located in the south of the continent, past The Urysas. In fact, it is located in the north, only being able to contribute forces by shuttling them through Uthan or through river and sea routes. The army of the Fervoni Holy Union consisted of multiple legions of professional infantry, supplemented by a few battalions of peasant levies recruited from the local area, made up of either those devoted to the gods or those who were forcefully conscripted.

The Fervoni Holy Union possessed two choices when ferrying troops to the front lines of the war, either funnel them through a land route through Uthan, or through a mixture of river and sea routes. The former choice was much more preferable, cutting logistical costs in half and giving the Holy Union much needed breathing room in relation to their military matters. Uthan did allow both sides military access, but with a few clauses.

1. Don't fight in Uthani territory.
2. Don't use Uthani territory as a safe zone.
3. Don't set up camps for more then a week without paying taxes.
4. Don't disrupt business anymore than usual.
5. The Army of Uthan is liable to take away and arrest any who disobey these clauses.

As such, the Fervoni Holy Union was only able to pour troops into East Falglor's frontline side, unable to mount an assault on West Falglor's northern border because of the clauses set by Uthan. This space which the Holy Union used to funnel troops into Commonwealth territory would be known as simply the North Gap by both alliance and West Falglor forces, seeing as it was a byproduct of borders that were very liable to change and not a geographical element. This North Gap was immediately latched onto by both alliance and West Falglorian tacticians as being a point of extreme strategic interest. If the West Falglorians could take the North Gap, then Fervoni Holy Union troops would be unable to aid East Falglor and Gal Agapito as effectively, sealing the two nation's fate and putting the whole alliance at risk of collapsing.

Both sides knew this, and the North Gap was always heavily defended. The base of operations for the alliance forces was a town by the name of Westrock, whose importance had skyrocketed overnight. Hundreds of soldiers were garrisoned in the strategically located town, making it a hub of different military activities, and becoming a valuable target for West Falglorian forces. However, said forces were unable to find gaps in the defences of Westrock, which was fiercely defended by alliance soldiers.

On the main Falglorian front, the Royal Army was making steady progress. They were much better prepared for the war and had pressed the advantage early, meaning Commonwealth forces started on the backfoot. Adding to that, the whole of the Falglorian front was large, and even with reinforcements from alliance members, the Commonwealth often found themselves unable to keep the entirety of the front garrisoned and defended. The main mode of advancement on the front for the Royal Army was utilizing this weakness and combining it with the advantage of superior Western communication and recon system to find gaps in the large front, then exploiting it by pushing forces through. This, while giving the Royal Army steady headway in their military operations, meant that advancement was slow, interspersed with skirmishes and rare direct battles with Commonwealth and alliance forces.

Advances in the front line were often marked by which towns or hamlets or other facets of civilization were controlled or directly garrisoned by whichever army, or which army most recently marched on a road. During wintertime, progress on the main fronts crawled to an immediate halt except for the frontline near the coast, which was warm enough to not suffer most of the ill effects of winter. This was because when marching troops through long stretches of land, said troops would inevitably need to rest or sleep overnight, and they would camp in tents. In winter, a tent isn't going to protect you much from the freezing cold, meaning soldiers would die of hypothermia if commanders attempted marches over long distances in winter.

By year one, the dynamic of the war had been set in motion. West Falglor was on the offensive, and the alliance was on the defensive and responding to the decisions that they made, which put them on the backfoot during the war. Alliance commanders began to realize that the war would drag on for quite a while, and that they needed to prepare for a war of attrition rather than the few knockout battles into West Falglor territory they were hoping for. On the side of West Falglor, while they had also prepared for a more attritional war given the fact they were fighting four nations, they were also hoping for a few knockout battles to decimate the army of the alliance and simply walk into the capital of East Falglor.

The strategy so far for West Falglor was to focus on the eastern front, on East Falglor. If they were able to conquer East Falglor, then Gal Agapito would be helpless to stop the superior Royal Army, which would knock out two members of the alliance at once. Not only that, but the morale boost from having reunified Falglor would be immense. Easily the forces diverted to the eastern front could be shifted over to Tomachi, knocking the disorganized state out of the war completely, and forcing the Fervoni Holy Union to give up.

The strategy of the alliance was initially to deal a knockout blow after knockout blow, delivering defeat after defeat to the West Falglorian forces with their overwhelming numbers and spreading their forces thin enough on both borders so that an alliance army could potentially punch through the frontline of the Royal Army and march straight into Wrenin. However, as the war stretched further on, the alliance realized that such a number of defeats against the Royal Army would be impossible, and that their advantage of overwhelming numbers was not so much an advantage since they couldn't muster as many troops as on paper. The overall alliance strategy shifted more from a quick easy victory to a war of attrition on two fronts, hoping to wear out the West Falglorians until they could make some headway.

For a long time, this state of affairs continued mostly unchanged. Westrock remained a nigh impenetrable stronghold, and both the eastern and western front mostly stagnated in progress. Tomachi was protected by the Prafian River, a natural border that prevented commanders in the Royal Army from making any progress on punching through the Tomachi forces. Miniscule progress was made on the eastern front, usually in the metric of a small hamlet or town being taken or traded back and forth for multiple days, but other than that, fighting was mostly skirmishes as both sides looked for points to penetrate through the overstretched frontline and potentially take a key city or point.

The middle years of the Falglorian Unification War were punctuated by few battles and a stagnant frontline, but as time stretched on, things had begun to reach a breaking point. East Falglor probably suffered the worst from the prolonged warfare. It had recruited and enlisted a great number of peasants to supplement its fighting force, and most of those peasants were farmers. This caused a major shortage of people available to grow and harvest crops, meaning that either entire fields withered on the vine, or large influential merchants and other rich figures bought up large portions of land from the Commonwealth, who illegally sold farmer's land to fund the war effort. Sometimes the farmers of the land being sold would still be alive and in the army, or passed it down to their children, who woke up one day to find that they now had a landlord in charge of their land, which caused a lot of unrest both domestically and in the army.

This shortage of domestic agriculture also caused a great deal of famine. While there were mages to grow the food, there often wasn't enough to harvest all the grown food and distribute them to the people, meaning that starvation began to take hold in the country. While the landlords did promise to both hire people to harvest the food and then sell the food to the people, killing two birds with one stone, they often did nothing of the sort, utilizing much cheaper indentured servants and sometimes penal workers to harvest the crops, which they would either trade away or sell at a premium. This meant that East Falglor suddenly had no food even with a bunch of farms, and had to rely on foreign support and import.

The Commonwealth was also broke, very broke. They had burned through their coin reserves extremely fast paying for the war effort, meaning that they needed money to keep going and keep fighting. This need for money led to the decision to sell land to landlords, and it had also resulted in another thing that every single peasant hates, an increase in taxes. Elspeth increasingly grew unpopular both in top political circles who saw East Falglor's failure in the war as her fault as well as unpopularity coming from the common people, who saw her as the reason for the growing taxes.

Her grip on East Falglorian politics was beginning to waver, as repeated domestic unrest and mutinies in the army challenged her authority. One of the final death knells for her undisputed grip over East Falglor fell when Alastair, commander of the Commonwealth Army, died via poisoning. Some blame the poisoning on West Falglorian spies, others on jealous elements within the nobility, some on Harold Acker on suspicions that he wanted to ascend to the leader position on the army, a few even pin the blame on The Cult of Zelial. Either way, Elspeth's grip on the army disintegrated overnight, and she herself became paranoid of potential assassins going after her next.

A power struggle began to form in the army and between the nobility, and the stability provided by the shared enemy of the Kingdom of West Falglor disappeared as the nobles turned on each other, seeing the office of commander of the Commonwealth Army as a valuable stepping stone to become more influential in politics. As for the army, Harold Acker basically took on the roles as general of the army, though he was challenged on several fronts by popular captains and commanders, especially by Cadoc Pugh. The army continued to grow more fragmented and threatened to descend into factionalism, which would no doubt be the death knell of the Commonwealth of it so happened.

Gal Agapito also suffered severe issues. Their measly army, sent to supplement the eastern front had been either completely annihilated in the fighting, been subsumed into regional command structures, been taken prisoner by West Falglor, or returned home, beaten and battered. With Gal Agapito's already shaky manpower issue, it was simply unaffordable for them to muster a second army, and whatever land power they did have was mostly dissolved, leaving the navy Agapito's sole power. The South Flotilla, the official name of the navy, was itself mired in factionalism and argument over who should hold power, hampering the South Flotilla's capabilities. Even that was unsatisfactory, as it became increasingly clear that the Eight Year's War would be a land-based one, with little focus on naval supremacy.

That's not to say the South Flotilla never did anything, they continually raided and harassed merchant ships that tried to trade in West Falglorian ports, tried to secure river dominance, especially in the Prafian River, and occasionally attempted behind the lines sea invasions, though they nearly always fizzled out because of lack of support from the rest of the alliance along with the shortage of any troops to actually try and hold and take West Falglorian territory. As a result, the South Flotilla was mostly sidelined throughout the war, though they did perform exceedingly well against the underprioritized Royal Navy.

The Tomachi, which had a distinct geographical advantage over the Kingdom, relatively did nothing and wasn't invaded by Falglor. While they did have a natural barrier in the way of the Prafian River in order to guard their homeland, the river worked both ways, meaning that Falglor was also protected from any invasion from Tomachi, causing a stalemate on the western front that stagnated for years. Tomachi was still connected to Uthan by land, fought with West Falglor scarcely, and still frequently traded by sea, meaning that they suffered few of the ill-effects that came with the protracted conflict. However, this also meant that after a while, the different nobles of Tomachi simply dropped any pretense of a united front together and just went back to fighting, meaning that there was little to no push from the western part of the alliance.

The Kingdom of West Falglor also suffered from the fighting as well, even if less than their enemies. The recent Weighan Outbreak had shaken national unity and public support for the war in the south extensively, as well as damaging the King's reputation. Any maritime trade across the sea was impossible due to the South Flotilla's continued efforts, with coastal cities suffering the worst.

All in all, everyone was tired from the fighting and the warring, but none were about to give in yet. West Falglor was making very slow progress in the east, though it wasn't at a very impressive rate, meaning that ground gained was negligible at best on most days. Westrock continued to be a bastion or resistance, beating off any attempts at a siege or encirclement, though that would all change soon. Cadoc Pugh, fed up with Harold Acker and his leadership, would attempt to lead a coup against Acker in Pugh's Revolt, leading his Ironforged Legion, abandoning Westrock, hoping to seize control of the army before West Falglor realized.

Pugh's Revolt led to heavy fighting between Acker's forces and the Ironforged Legion, leading to an eventual defeat for Pugh, his arrest and later his execution. However, the damage had already been done, Pugh's misinformation that he hoped would confuse and distract the West Falglorian forces before they would realize what was happening, defeating Acker and pushing back the Royal Army before they would inevitable realize that Westrock was undefended. That plan failed when insiders within Westrock realized that the garrison was gone, meaning that Royal Army forces simply walked into Westrock after a short battle between collaborators and the skeleton crew guards.

This cut off the Fervoni Holy Union from the rest of the alliance, something that was of much concern to Fervoni forces residing in the Commonwealth, who realized that they had no easy way out anymore, and began to desert en masse in order to try and catch the next ship out back to Fervoni, causing a mass collapse of the eastern front, an advantage that the Royal Army pressed aggressively, defeating the disorganized and still recovering Commonwealth army on many occasions, causing the already dispirited army to nearly disintegrate in the face of Royal Army offensives. Nobles often switched sides and defected to West Falglor when they realized that the war wasn't going their way.

First came the Siege of Gal Agapito, threatening naval access to the rest of the alliance, causing panic within the Fervoni troops and the alliance at large, culminating in a final battle in which the Royal Army was victorious, capturing most of the South Flotilla, the naval commanders, the leaders of Gal Agapito, and a few other alliance commanders. That was the final death knell of the Commonwealth, as the Royal Army swept east, defeating the scattered remnants of the alliance army, and eventually capturing the capital of East Falglor, Citsas, arresting Elspeth Stewart, and many of the remaining nobles in East Falglor.

News about the collapse of the Commonwealth took time to circulate throughout the rest of the Continent, reaching the other two members of the alliance. The worse case scenario had occurred, halving the members of the alliance and leaving Tomachi isolated from their greatest ally. The time it took for this information to circulate gave the Royal Army enough time to move its troops east, ready to charge over the Prafian River. Once news reached Tomachi proper, everyone panicked, no one knew what to do. Instead of forming a sort of united front, the nobles instead decided that there was no hope of going against the full might of West Falglor directed onto them, especially with little to no Fervoni support.

Some nobles scattered, packed everything they could fit in a procession or convoy and left to some other place, hoping to reestablish their wealth and power somewhere else, others defected over to the side of Falglor in exchange for keeping all their lands and wealth, a few stuck with the alliance, hoping to use the natural defense of the Prafian River to bleed out and attrition Falglor, who had now accomplished their main goal of reunifying themselves, meaning that morale would go down as troops would begin to wonder why they were fighting an enemy to the east who had no relation to Falglor other than being their neighbor.

As the Royal Army began to strategize for an offensive to the east, warrring between nobles only intensified between those that sided with Falglor, and those that remained loyal to Tomachi, but more importantly themselves, leaving Tomachi defenses weak on the Falglorian front. Alger Everlye took command of Falglorian forces in the west and prepared for an imminent invasion. Fighting between Falglor and Tomachi would reach relative lows, a few skirmishes on the river being the only real conflict or action being taken for a while as Alger laid out the plans for an in-depth invasion of Tomachi.

The Fervoni Holy Union was effectively locked out of the conflict, the logistics necessary to send troops and supplies all the way over to Tomachi was extremely expensive, ludicrously so, and as such it wasn't really an option, and the alliance was only an alliance in name, as Tomachi was left to fend for themselves against Falglor and the various adversary internal forces it faced.

The Western invasion began just seven months after the fall of East Falglor. While the Prafian River and the geography of Tomachi were difficult enemies that would be hellish for any army to attack conventionally without native support, Falglor did have native support in the way of defected nobles who wanted to join the winning side in the conflict. As such, Alger was able to march his forces straight into Tomachi through allied territory and bypass whatever coastal or bridge defenses that the loyal Tomachi forces had put up. With native support and guidance, the campaign was an enormous success, defeating and outmanuevering Tomachi forces on their home soil, humiliating the armies that still fought against them and destroying enemy morale easily.

The campaign ended with the Royal Army marching with little resistance into the then capital of Guixing, where they plundered and razed the city, destroying what little morale loyalist Tomachi forces had. After eight years of conflict, the Falglorian Unification War ended with the surrender of Xian Tao, the military leader of Tomachi's forces. Falglorian forces would proceed to occupy the country and fulfill most of the promises made to the defecting nobles of Tomachi. With the surrender of Tomachi, Fervoni leaders had no choice but to sign a peace deal with Falglor, formally ending the war.

The war ended in a Falglorian victory, although the result might be contested by The Order, who see it as more a white peace. Falglor accomplished all the goals they set out for themselves to do, conquering East Falglor, Gal Agapito, and Tomachi, establishing themselves as a major power in the south of the Continent, coming with the added bonus of undermining Fervoni's authority as a major power, and putting their prestige into question.

That doesn't mean Falglor came out of the war unscathed, however. Many of West Falglor's resources had been put toward the war effort, and while Commonwealth troops were retreating, Acker often ordered the personal guard of noble units to raze and destroy farmland and other supply bases behind them as they retreated, in order to deprive advancing Royal Army troops of supplies they could just gather. While West Falglor won the war regardless, the devastation the war had on the landscape and on other facets of civilization were not to be understated. This meant that while the Fervoni definitely lost the war, it wasn't the worst case scenario for them because Falglor was tired after constant warring, and couldn't go after any of their neighbors without an uprising breaking out.

The war, while proving the effectiveness of Harold Caxaton's army reforms, also highlighted several key issues with the armed forces of the Kingdom of Falglor. For one, the Royal Navy was a wreck. Throughout the war, the still largely feudal, undersupplied, underprioritized Royal Navy was repeatedly defeated time and time again by the South Flotilla of Gal Agapito, proving a major embarrassment for Falglor. To combat this, Alasne Marinelarena, former Admiral of the South Flotilla, was converted over to being an Admiral for the Royal Navy. Despite being initially hesitant, she soon proved a boon, providing several key naval reforms that would transform the Royal Navy into a halfway decent fighting force.

Other leaders in the alliance didn't fare so well. Elspeth Stewart was convicted of several heinous crimes by the Chief Justices and sentenced to a public execution. Harold Acker, Xian Tao, Unai Otxoa, and several other high up commanders within the captured alliance army were also sentenced to death, though some more quietly than others. Conflicts with those loyal to the old regimes would prove minimal, seeing as how nobody at the end of the war was really all for East Falglor, Gal Agapito, or Tomachi, no nationalist sentiment in the slightest.

In the modern day, the Falglorian Unification War is often remembered in Falglor as a great triumph of the nation over a combined force of enemies that would see the nation destroyed. Several kings did try and celebrate the end of the war with parades and other celebrations, though it never really took off, and would fade into the background as an obscure holiday that only a few would celebrate. In the Order and other places with high church influence throughout the world, the war is known as the Eight Year's War, and tends to gloss over the strategical defeat of the Order, more focusing on operational and battlefield victories, emphasizing that the end of the war was actually more of a white peace.

In the end, the Falglorian Unification War ended up establishing Falglor as a major rising power in the years to come, setting them on the path to becoming a major southern power to rival the Order and other powers.