Ninety-nine-years war

An intermediary period towards the end of the First Age durring which the stability of the Known Worlds was in jeapordy.

Decline and Fall of the Earth Sphere Unified Nations

The Begining of the End

In A.Y. 158, Pendragon Aden Searlin starts a plan known as the Earth Sphere Unified Nations in an effort to stabalize the Alliance and prevent a resurgence of the Mage Wars. Aden's plan is centered primarily around good-faith and economic checks and balances.

The Gudersnipe Foundation formally withdraws from the Alliance at this point, which actually does more to stabalize matters than the Pendragon's proposal. A wide spread distrust of the Foundation existed at this time and they became an easy scapegoat.

But the peace created by this schism was a false one at best. Nations fell back on posturing and isolationism, and old rivalries began to creep back into perception.

The Technical End

The Earth Sphere Unified Nations functions for around 230 years before fracturing completely. Economic ties forged during this time maintain the false peace for the next six hundred years, but the Slayer Dragons have no more political or economic power to enforce the alliances, so any major event runs the risk of destroying Uther's work completely.

The Actual End

For the past 600 years, the Earth Sphere Unified Nations has existed as a name and nothing else. Arindell functions as an autonomous city-state, and the pendragon's continue to fulfill their primary role as defenders of good. This era came to be know as The Golden Age of the Slayer Dragons.

The Ninety-Nine-Years War began with unprecidented military builups all over the Known Worlds. Historians theorize this build up was a responce to the growing visibility of the Gudersnipe Foundation as they works to build the GATE network across the entire Known Worlds.

Fighting in the Ninety-Nine-Years War

Or more accurately lack there of. Aside from many scattered skirmishes, very little actual fighting took place. Though they lacked the political, economic, or military power to back them, the Slayer Dragons still held an important political voice.

Acting mostly as a nurtral third party, they traveled the Known Worlds mediating disputes. The Gudersnipe Foundation also helped stablize the situation by refusing to move troops over it's now complete GATE network, and instead offering the services of it's Crimson Blade mercenary division. Crimson Blade soldiers instead often acted as peace-keeping forces instead of invading armies, helping to maintain the tenuas balance and prevent another Mage Wars.