The Night of the Silent Winter
This was the na of a battle that was only known to the mbers of the Zhen Clan, the Zhu Clan and the Royal Bai Family.
This was the night that the Five Petals of the Blossoming Scales Kingdom, beca the Three Forests.
For this is was the night when the Pai and Gao Clans were wiped off the face of empire, alongside their cities of Birch Scale and Yew Scale.
The act of wiping out an entire city is normally not a very quiet procedure, nor is the act of inter-clan civil warfare.
There’s normally lots of burning, screaming, violence and death involved when destroying a city and slaughtering all of its inhabitants. It’s the type of thing that’s very hard to do without anyone noticing...but that’s exactly what happened.
In one mont, the combined forces of the Zhen Clan, Zhu Clan and Bai clan, led a coordinated effort against the Pai and Gao clans with the aim wipe them both out.
Now, depending on who you ask or what primary sources you use, the reason for this scorched earth policy varied greatly.
The Zhen Clan insisted it was a result of the Pai and Gao clans consorting with enemies of both the dostic and foreign variety, the Zhu Clan believe it was a difference in ideology that caused the rift, while the Bai Clan simply claim that the Pai and Gao had beco too ignorant and violent to ignore.
Either way, what was known was that the Pai and Gao clans were the ones to start harassing the others clans into conflict.
A fierce battle broke out between the clans that once called each other brothers, a battle that was characterized by massive loss of life among both the civilians and the cultivators.
Many people at the ti knew that this fighting wouldn’t end until one side or the other had been obliterated, collateral damage be damned. From the way the people were fighting, this wasn’t a war for resources, but sothing significantly more personal.
However, sothing unexpected occur during the course of the battle.
As quick as the blink of an eye, the release of a sigh and the drop of a pin, both Yew Scale and Birch Scale froze over into winter white hellish landscapes.
Every person, every beast and every building in these two cities, were frozen solid in a thick layer of icy aether that threatened to freeze even the onlooking Zhen, Zhu and Bai warriors.
Official records never state how this event occurred, whether it was the result of a powerful aether treasure or a lost aether art, but there were many, many reports that detailed what had happened to both of these cities and clans once they beca frozen hellscapes.
Soon after the cities of Yew Scale and Birch Scale were frozen solid, the river that the two cities were built atop of suddenly began to beco violent, raging and surging like a massive sea serpent or an angry dragon.
On that night, many swore they saw giant, writhing tentacles erge from the depths and drag the frozen cities into the depths below, sinking them into the Roaring Tide Continent’s abyssal zone. Many warriors at the ti assud the tentacles belonged to a powerful aether beast king and saw the frozen cities as an opportunity. But, there are records that claid the tentacles belonged to sothing else entirely, sothing that defied the natural order.
With how quickly and how strange the battle ended, the Three Forests agreed to refer to this mont as "The Night of the Silent Winter" and vowed to never reveal what had truly happened this evening to the masses and empire at large.
For years after this incident, the Blossoming Scales Kingdom was at peace, with the Three Forests leading the way.
However, as ti passed on and the Pai and Gao Clans faded into mory, a new threat in the form of the Fallen Clan arose to disturb the peace.
And thus ca a new status quo: The Three Forests vs the Fallen Clan.
A battle that would rage on and on and on, until one side or the other was obliterated.
...
But pray tell, what cri did the Pai and Gao clans commit in order for the entirety of the Blossoming Scales Kingdom to hate them so?
The Pai Clan were farming folk who simply lived off the land, while the Gao Clan were traders, plain and simple.
Neither truly had the power to overpower the other two clans and the Royal Family, nor have they really showed the [desire] to do so...so why did they attack in the first place?
Nobody knew for certain, but...there was one detail that everybody seed to forget about in regards to the history of the Fallen.
A detail so small that many, many historians and warriors alike dismiss it over imdiately due to how common of a phenonon it was.
They found a way into the abyssal zone.
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[What’s that sound?]
*Thoom*
*Thoom!*
*THOOM!*
[Bad noises. Need to bail!]
Not taking any chances, since she just developed an understanding of what those words ant, the skeleton zako(?) stopped harvesting parts from her latest victims and proceeded to roll away from what she considered to be the blast zone.
From what she could hear, sothing or soone was breaking through the floors of this prison in an upward fashion in her direction.
Evidently, she wasn’t the only one to have this feeling.
The Fallen Clan warriors, who were initially excited about the arrival of whover this "War Elder" was, suddenly beca silent as they realized that the person they were waiting for was arriving to their location, not through the stairway or a teleportation thod, but by breaking through every single floor between their cell and this location.
Noticing this behavior and sensing the incoming torrent of energy, even the Puppet Elder and the Gate Elder had to move out of the way before it was too late.
By the ti they evacuated from the point of impact, the anticipated event finally happened.
*AAAAAOOOOOO*
*BOOM!*
[!!!].
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