Necromanic Wars
A.Y. 3272-380, 108 years, covered much of the Known Worlds but very little fighting occured in space.
Following the end of rhe mage Wars, Necromancers began to proliferate throught the Known Worlds. Since the wars ahd ended, their primary role as mercenaries was no longer profitable, and they began to turn to other industries.
Though temples tried to be self-suffienct, they often needed support from surrounding communities, to which they sold their services in exchange for goods and money. Cheap labor was common, as a dozen necromancers could direct several hundred reanimated corpses at simple tasks. Mining and field work were the main sources.
Primary Causes
The primary driving force behind the war was the Grey Temple necromancers, who felt that the world belonged to them and they should take it. A schism between Grey Temple and Green Temple necromancers at the begining of the Third Age had caused nearly all temples to identify with one of the two theologies.
However, while Grey Temple theology included a sense of entitlment, the Grey Temple necromancers lacked any kind of support system. It took the rise of Arch-Lich Honoreck to unit the Grey Temples and begin a campaign to take over the known worlds.
The War
The bulk of actual fighting in the Necromanic Wars was done by the Grey Temple necromancers, who by this time had amassed several hundred Lichs. They had many allies who commited living troops to the cause, and in the span of a few years they had captured a great deal of territory.
Honoreck had promised his followers a thousand-year nation that would be forged through the crucible of war, and many were eager to oblige. Those under his controll that would not fight willingly were executed, and their corpses made to fight for the cause.
In total, the war lasted for 108 years, but claimed more lives than the Second Chaotic Period of the Mage Wars, do primarily to Honoreck's tactics and the fact they basically everyone alive was fighting neck-deep in rotting reanimated corpses.
Defeat
Honoreck's thousand-year nation came to an early end when the Slayer Dragons got involved, and forged an alliance with the Green Temple(which, up until then, had largely stayed out of the whole debacle). The Slayer Dragons brought in huge armies of trained and wel-equiped soldiers who were still alive, and using a variety of tactics straight out of Uther's playbook, they brought about a quick and decisive end.
The main technique invovled using Green Temple magic to counteract the grey, and turn Honoreck's own armies against him. With relatively few human troops on the battlefield, this tactic was brutally successful. Honoreck himself was slain by Lal Soratami, at the time a Slayer Dragon, but would later become Pendragon in A.Y. 3411.
Aftermath
The real tragedy of the Necromanic Wars was just how many people did not die as a direct result of combat. Both sides actively employed large numbers of undead, which meant festering corpses were literally everywhere spreading disease. More people died of illness and joined the undead armies than were actually slain by them.
However, the horror came after the war when it was discovered that many countries which supported the Grey Temple and fought beside them, had willfully slaughtered their own people to provide more bodies for the cause.
This disgusted Soratami, and his first act as Pendragon was to ban Necromancy outright within the Alliance.
