Battle of Rayew

Battle of Rayew 1580-1601 Age of Form and Flow

Rose Empire attempts to assert its dominance on Inteia by disrupting trade and laying seige to the City of Rayew. The Empire calls for the surrender of the militas in the cities of Rayew and Nemari. The resulting blockade makes life generally miserable for villages through out the land.

In the year 1582 the Emperor Bedlan Toft was assassinated. Princess Devari becomes Empress Devari in a fortnight. She begins her reign of terror by issuing new orders to destroy the entire cities if they do not surrender and come to the Council of the Wise on the island of Taydo. The two years against the Emperor were inconvenient. The long, brutal war that was ignited in Rayew crossed continents and seas of Kay Seif.

Many heroic names of the survivors of the Battle of Rayew are remembered in song. They invariably were drawn into the terrible carnage known far and wide as Last War.

Seeds of Dissent
In and around the year 1520 in the Age of Form and Flow, trade had flourished between the Rose Empire and the Merchant Society of Inteia. Rare goods were sold in elaborate indoor market-houses financed by the Empire. All citizens of the Rose Empire are systematically educated to arrive at the conclusion that they are vastly superior to others and are entitled to the nicest treasures within the reach of the Empire. The Merchant Society had rebelled starting with the Kingdom of Lin on the desert continent Nayneth and managed to peel away the grip of the Rose Empire's trade colony by encouraging merchants to band together and resist the greedy Emperor Bedlan by crippling the ships of seafaring traders what bore the Imperial flag