Uva Thress, Imperial Historian
11,748 A.S.
It should be noted that while the Non-Battle for Humanity marked the first instance of open conflict in the Chaos War, hostilities truly began almost two years earlier with the assassination of the Panisian royal family, which was subsequently blamed on Sceptrine soldiers. Not only did this act spark a war between Panisahldron and Sceptre, it left the child Queen Arivana alone amongst the throne’s councilors, who sought to prolong the war for their own ends. Had not the two great sorceresses of the age, Jasside and Vashodia, come to the aid of Sceptre, and forced a once one-sided war to a conclusive, yet (modestly) peaceful resolution, humankind would have been significantly less prepared for the invasion that came soon after.
And had not the prodigal warrior Mevon Daere returned home to his father, the emperor (who had thought his son dead at the time), it seems unlikely that the mighty Imperial war machine would have ever stirred from its slumber . . .