The Abar–Zamunzian War

by @timescrolly1 Ebb 775 TH – 32 Hollow 775 TH30 items

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A war told day by day, from a chancery

Didyia is an invented world on a map generated with Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator; nothing here is real. The map lists two wars on the Kingdom of Zamunz that are still open in its present year, 775: the Khanate of Khuld's, since 771, and the Abar Empire's, which starts this year. This timeline tells the year of both from the chancery of the Thearchy of Slalt, the one realm asked to bless a side.

What to look at

  • Day precision in a custom calendar. Every date is a day of the Tideshell Reckoning; the three dates on Tide Rest are the day that belongs to no month, when both armies stop.

  • A layer per front. Layer 1 is the southern front, where Abar besieges Khundushur; layer 2 the northern front, where Khuld's riders take Zamunz's towns; layer 3 the sea; layer 4 the chancery at Nishjiss, whose dispatches contradict one another.

  • The map view places each event at its town; the two armies meet at Nunul, on layer 2.

  • Item relations: caused and led_to chain the first days of the war, two accounts of Bamunzdus contradict each other, and the Tide Rest on each front is the same event as the other.

  • Across timelines: the Thearchy's own history leads into this chronicle; see The Thearchy of Slalt, from the Covenant to 775.

  • Entities for the realms, towns and people; the Thearchy's orders are a custom kind, and its ties to the empire a custom relation.

Items

  1. Abar's ultimatum to Zamunz expires

    Zamunz

  2. Abar's envoy asks the Thearch's blessing

    Nishjiss

  3. Abar's army crosses at Kinbirar

    Kinbirar

  4. Khuld's riders cross the Galshinch hills

    Galshinch

  5. Abar's western fleet sails from Shathanarg

    Shathanarg

  6. Bamunzdus changes hands

    Bamunzdus

  7. The Shell Court sits on the blessing

    Nishjiss

  8. The grain at Zazilbura is burned

    Zazilbura

  9. The siege of Khundushur

    9 months, 5 days · Khundushur

  10. Abar's account of Bamunzdus reaches Nishjiss

    Nishjiss

  11. Zamunz's account of Bamunzdus reaches Nishjiss

    Nishjiss

  12. The first assault on the landward wall

    The landward wall of Khundushur

  13. The blockade of Buzan

    Buzan

  14. Gazi asks the Thearchy to stay neutral

    Nishjiss

  15. Srat tells its vassal to say nothing

    Nishjiss

  16. Bilbundus changes hands

    Bilbundus

  17. Zamunz fireships raid Unulbar

    Unulbar

  18. The Thearch refuses the blessing

    Nishjiss

  19. Zamunz sorties and burns the siege-engines

    The Abar siege-lines

  20. The Thearch bids the Rest be kept

    Nishjiss

  21. The southern front keeps Tide Rest

    Between the lines

  22. The northern front keeps Tide Rest

    Khulukkhur

  23. The Emperor of Abar answers

    Nishjiss

  24. A relief column is ambushed on the Bamunzdus road

    The Bamunzdus road

  25. The sea gate of Khundushur holds

    The harbour chain

  26. Khuld takes Khulukkhur

    Khulukkhur

  27. The meeting at Nunul

    Nunul

  28. A storm scatters the blockade

    The headland

  29. Zamunz asks the Thearchy to mediate

    Nishjiss

  30. The Count closes the year

    Nishjiss