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Marrishland has a long and violent history. Several civilizations have risen and fallen, here, and the book tells about events during one of the most turbulant periods - a period whose events determine whether a civilization survives or dies.

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The Hammerfall War (Wainat 14, 998 - Belnat 20, 1000 I.D.)

On Wainat 14, 998 I.D., the wint army crossed into enemy territory while the Kalkorae held the perimeter. The Hammerfall War only lasted twelve months, but its grisly climax alone has proved enough to burn it into the memories of the Mar. The Hundred Tribes soon discovered that their ancient enemy's magic had evolved during the last few centuries as the Totanbeni and the Erden cultures had grown together into a single civilization. Historians call this strange combination of cultures the Dominah, though it is not known what the new tribe called itself.

Very little is known about what actually happened during the Hammerfall War. Surviving accounts seem unable to agree on whether the Dominah summoned all the ghosts of their dead to fight for them, thousands of monstrous lizards rose up from the earth to halt the attack, or both. Some scholars believe the Dominah had been destroyed by the Drakes living in the area, such that the wints faced monsters when they expected to battle fellow humans. Others claim that the Dominah transformed themselves into the Drakes and drove off their enemies with their horrifying new forms. A number draw parallels between the Dominah monsters and the demons summoned by Kafthaian witches, but others argue that neither tribe had the cultural materials available to them to travel down this particular mystical path. A few scholars maintain that the monstrous allies of the Dominah in the stories of the Hammerfall War are metaphorical, and that the Dominah created an extraordinarily contagious and fatal manifestation of Dinah's Curse with their magic while protecting themselves from the plague with additional magic.

Regardless of the nature of their new magic, the Dominah almost certainly saw that their destruction was at hand. The wints of the Hundred Tribes faced token resistance from a relative handful of Dominah guerillas who nevertheless inflicted no small number of casualties. A month later, however, the Kalkorae felt the full force of the Dominah. The mass of monsters threw themselves at the north side of the Kalkoraen perimeter. The outposts were well-equipped, but after a month of relentless assault, the Dominah walked over the line.

They wasted no time with the other outposts, instead sweeping west. The Kalkorae were not ready for such an attack, having placed the majority of their weapons along the perimeter. The Dominah faced minimal resistance as they razed one Kalkoraen city after another, moving with obvious haste. It took more than a year for the Kalkorae and the Hundred Tribes to catch up with the Dominah (Heldnat 999 I.D.). When they finally did at Hammer Falls, however, they found only the Dominah. The Drakes, ghosts, and/or demons had either disappeared or abandoned them.

The Dominah received no mercy. Kalkorae and wints alike killed the remnants of the entire tribe and burned the bodies. Belnat 20, 1000 I.D. marks the end of the Hammerfall War because that was the day the last of the Dominah was executed. In all, the Hammerfall War killed roughly ten thousand Dominah, two thousand members of the Hundred Tribes, four thousand Kalkoraen soldiers, and nearly a hundred thousand Kalkoraen civilians (roughly a third of the total population of the Kalkorae).

(Contribute by Weard Leif Gesyk)