Araxian Wars¶
The Araxian Wars are the first war between the Araxians and the kingdoms of south-west Astia, fought around 580 AL in the Proturan reckoning (S107). The Araxians lost it, and their defeat shaped the far greater war that followed, the Second Araxian War of the 720s AL. The Proturan regional timeline is the only source to date the first war; it lists "Araxian Wars" among the region-wide conflicts in the last decades of the Hollowing, just before the "Rifts" period begins at 600 AL (S107).
Outcome¶
The one account of the war's result is given in passing, as the explanation for the second: "after their defeat in the first war, the Araxians had reorganized and taken many subversive measures to weaken their enemies from within. This strategy seems to have paid off as the northern kingdoms fell one after another despite having numerically superior forces and generally having a significant advantage on the battlefield" (S107).
The war had a southern theatre. Berek Beetleslayer, the dwarf who runs the Pale Pit in the Warrens of Proturas, "fought in the Southern campaigns in the Araxian wars" (S061, S028); nothing further is said of those campaigns. The Rift gazetteer records destruction "during the second Araxian War" at Lyrspire and the Uthein colony (S066), but names no losses from the first.
Gap
The sources say nothing of where the first war was fought, who led either side, how long it lasted, or how the Araxians were defeated. Who and what the Araxians are belongs to their own page.