Appendix F


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Tales of Yorn, Appendix F: Timeline of the Blood Wars

 

In a world stricken with timeless battles and bloody conflicts... the Blood Wars was another one of those. It is difficult to tell exactly how long the Blood Wars lasted, for as it is said in this (supposedly in the words of Ulfulaz the Historian himelf):

 

"...for during a day in the Blood Wars a boy becomes a man, though not by the soft damp embrace of feminine things, rather through the hard caress of steel and the hard, pumping rhythmn of war drums, the hard, twitching clutches of his dying companions, the long, hard steel that sprays a deluge of hot lifesblood upon the fresh young face of a lad who will never again know his carefree days, forever hardened by his desire for conquest and war."

 

(Coupled with the chidings of Duane, who offen asserts that Ulfulaz is a "mincing arseholder", this passage is used as evidence by some "el-slash" writers that the aged historian is gay. The relations that these writers have depicted betwixt him and the talking lance, however, have absolutely no foundation in the canon... and are also totally gross.)

 

Anyway... though the timeline that Ulfulaz puts forth for the Blood Wars is referenced in the years of the, as he puts it, Realm of Landiness and Worldings, with a bit of Waterousness, it is difficult to know how long the Blood Wars lasted from the perspective of its participants, as the magical nature of its origin and existence is (literally) quite cloudy. It is suspected that its enchantments contain a liberal dose of the unpleasant unsubstance, untime.

 

The Timeline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion

As thorough as this timeline is... the Steward Earl Sloan page seems to indicate that the land was shrouded in the sinister and uncrossable Mist Sea well before the year 0. That would seem to conflict with the information provided for year 979.
There are at least three theories about this. First Theory: "All the wars of grievance shall heretofore be moved to the enchanted Mist Sea, which I have enchanted." Notice that Vhadxi never actually says that he created the Mist Sea, merely that he enchanted it, and gave it a cool name. He probably came up with the idea because southern Yymp was socked-in with fog most of the time anyway, causing many people to get lost there. So hey... why not magic it up so that the people who annoy you with their stupid problems get lost there permanently? Second Theory: Vhadxi's enchantments contained within them an undose of untime, due to the fact that Vhadxi intended the conflicts therein to be endless, but somehow, endless just wasn't horrible enough (thus, he used untime). The Blood Wars thus never cease to exist, for they are a neverending infinite war where Timenes has no rule: The war rages on at all points of the timeline while the enchantment is in place. By this reasoning, Yorn does not end the Blood Wars... he merely banishes them from Battal. For this reason, the lowlands of Yymp are a barren wasteland: it is as if the Blood Wars and all contained within have simply ceased to exist. Third Theory: Realmworlds never has and never will give a shit about continuity, get over yourselves. Nerds.