Locust Wars

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== History ==

===The Desert War===

===The First Desert War===

The Locust Wars describe two conflicts that engulfed Dorne during the Autumn of Locusts, involving five of the Six Kingdoms. In the west, tensions that had resulted from the Mountain Kingdoms' expansion into the Desert resulted in a long and bloody conflict, known to future generations as the Desert War.

The Locust Wars describe two conflicts that engulfed Dorne during the Autumn of Locusts, involving five of the Six Kingdoms. In the west, tensions that had resulted from the Mountain Kingdoms' expansion into the Desert resulted in a long and bloody conflict, known to future generations as the Desert War, later to be called the First Desert War.

====The Scorpion and the Sun====

Eight years prior to the Autumn, the House Dryland had invited into their hall and sphere Conran Qorgyle, an Andal warlord newly arrived from across the sea. They had made promises of friendship and cooperation with the man, and eventually decided to strengthen that bond with marriage - Milona Dryland, second child and eldest daughter of King Lucifer, was betrothed to Ser Conran Qorgyle. After her fifteenth nameday and during the early years of the fall, Conran and his host arrived in Hellgate Hall to claim his bride, and to deepen their ties with the Drylands. During this visit and before the wedding, the andal knight met with Prince Vorcan Dryland, the heir to Lucifer. They agreed, in secret, that they would cooperate to remove the Red Marchers from the desert, and that they would raise eachother up as brother-kings - this pact would become known as the '''Bathouse Oath''', named for the location in which it was sworn. During the wedding ceremony, Vorcan and Conran called on the attending headsmen of the tributary clans to rise up with them. They then conspired to place Lucifer under house arrest, and raise up Vorcan as King, after which they declared their joint intent to push the Fowlers and Daynes from the desert.

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[[File:postLocust.png|thumb|Political map of Dorne after the Locust Wars. Thousands of lives were spent for little change in borders.]]

The Autumn of Locusts shifted into a quiescent Dornish winter - the men and women of the peninsula outlasted insects and wars both. The Locust Wars reaffirmed the Greenblooders continuing need for a King, and solidified Bloodroyal Castor as the steward of a still vital and strong realm. The Green King Willem Wade perished not long after his defeat - to succeed him, the men of the Greenblood chose [[Edred Lake]], magnar of Goldpeppers. A martial and warlike man, Edred had fought well during the Scourge War, and his father had perished many years earlier doing battle with Olyvar. In the west, the balance of power had shifted, but the Daynes and Fowlers remained strong, if humbled. Three of the western Clans - Maltrevar, Spiny and Ruthvan - would, in the years which followed the Locust Wars, elevate [[Conran Qorgyle]] to the position of High Lord of the western desert, in exchange for promises of land, glory and protection from the mountain kings.

The Autumn of Locusts shifted into a quiescent Dornish winter - the men and women of the peninsula outlasted insects and wars both. The Locust Wars reaffirmed the Greenblooders continuing need for a King, and solidified Bloodroyal Castor as the steward of a still vital and strong realm. The Green King Willem Wade perished not long after his defeat - to succeed him, the men of the Greenblood chose [[Edred Lake]], magnar of Goldpeppers. A martial and warlike man, Edred had fought well during the Scourge War, and his father had perished many years earlier doing battle with Olyvar. In the west, the balance of power had shifted, but the Daynes and Fowlers remained strong, if humbled. Three of the western Clans - Maltrevar, Spiny and Ruthvan - would, in the years which followed the Locust Wars, elevate [[Conran Qorgyle]] to the position of High Lord of the western desert, in exchange for promises of land, glory and protection from the mountain kings. Conflict would return to the west of Dorne within a few years of this unification with the [[Second Desert War]], a conflict far vaster, more brutal, and bloody than the First.

[[Category:Events|Locust Wars]]

[[Category:Dorne|Locust Wars]]

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 == History ==
-===The Desert War===
+===The First Desert War===
-The Locust Wars describe two conflicts that engulfed Dorne during the Autumn of Locusts, involving five of the Six Kingdoms. In the west, tensions that had resulted from the Mountain Kingdoms' expansion into the Desert resulted in a long and bloody conflict, known to future generations as the Desert War.
+The Locust Wars describe two conflicts that engulfed Dorne during the Autumn of Locusts, involving five of the Six Kingdoms. In the west, tensions that had resulted from the Mountain Kingdoms' expansion into the Desert resulted in a long and bloody conflict, known to future generations as the Desert War, later to be called the First Desert War.
 ====The Scorpion and the Sun====
 Eight years prior to the Autumn, the House Dryland had invited into their hall and sphere Conran Qorgyle, an Andal warlord newly arrived from across the sea. They had made promises of friendship and cooperation with the man, and eventually decided to strengthen that bond with marriage - Milona Dryland, second child and eldest daughter of King Lucifer, was betrothed to Ser Conran Qorgyle. After her fifteenth nameday and during the early years of the fall, Conran and his host arrived in Hellgate Hall to claim his bride, and to deepen their ties with the Drylands. During this visit and before the wedding, the andal knight met with Prince Vorcan Dryland, the heir to Lucifer. They agreed, in secret, that they would cooperate to remove the Red Marchers from the desert, and that they would raise eachother up as brother-kings - this pact would become known as the '''Bathouse Oath''', named for the location in which it was sworn. During the wedding ceremony, Vorcan and Conran called on the attending headsmen of the tributary clans to rise up with them. They then conspired to place Lucifer under house arrest, and raise up Vorcan as King, after which they declared their joint intent to push the Fowlers and Daynes from the desert.
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 [[File:postLocust.png|thumb|Political map of Dorne after the Locust Wars. Thousands of lives were spent for little change in borders.]]
-The Autumn of Locusts shifted into a quiescent Dornish winter - the men and women of the peninsula outlasted insects and wars both. The Locust Wars reaffirmed the Greenblooders continuing need for a King, and solidified Bloodroyal Castor as the steward of a still vital and strong realm. The Green King Willem Wade perished not long after his defeat - to succeed him, the men of the Greenblood chose [[Edred Lake]], magnar of Goldpeppers. A martial and warlike man, Edred had fought well during the Scourge War, and his father had perished many years earlier doing battle with Olyvar. In the west, the balance of power had shifted, but the Daynes and Fowlers remained strong, if humbled. Three of the western Clans - Maltrevar, Spiny and Ruthvan - would, in the years which followed the Locust Wars, elevate [[Conran Qorgyle]] to the position of High Lord of the western desert, in exchange for promises of land, glory and protection from the mountain kings.
+The Autumn of Locusts shifted into a quiescent Dornish winter - the men and women of the peninsula outlasted insects and wars both. The Locust Wars reaffirmed the Greenblooders continuing need for a King, and solidified Bloodroyal Castor as the steward of a still vital and strong realm. The Green King Willem Wade perished not long after his defeat - to succeed him, the men of the Greenblood chose [[Edred Lake]], magnar of Goldpeppers. A martial and warlike man, Edred had fought well during the Scourge War, and his father had perished many years earlier doing battle with Olyvar. In the west, the balance of power had shifted, but the Daynes and Fowlers remained strong, if humbled. Three of the western Clans - Maltrevar, Spiny and Ruthvan - would, in the years which followed the Locust Wars, elevate [[Conran Qorgyle]] to the position of High Lord of the western desert, in exchange for promises of land, glory and protection from the mountain kings. Conflict would return to the west of Dorne within a few years of this unification with the [[Second Desert War]], a conflict far vaster, more brutal, and bloody than the First.
 [[Category:Events|Locust Wars]]
 [[Category:Dorne|Locust Wars]]

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