War of Earth and Water
The Conflict
Prelude
Thalatta is a mass of liquid water shaped by the manipulative forces set by the meridians who inhabit it. It floats in the Threshold far from most any source of food.
They are able to collectively pilot this spherical ocean in any which direction. Needing prey to survive, the hierarchies in Thalasso decided to cooperatively move their home to where prey was plentiful.
Deployment
Thalatta
During the war, as thalatta approached, the water climbed along the outside of the topopolis and creeped inward; asphyxiating plants and engulfing scurrying animals. The sphere misshapened along the spiral landscape, according to surface tension, but remained externally as a continuous glob, while the water volume inside manifested a spring-like movement around large sanctuarised air bubbles.It was not perfect ball that rested snuggly in a spring. No, no.... there was still some open space where the forest dwellers had time to adapt to a newer amphibious, then aquatic, lifestyle.
Battlefield
Dark Forest
All that Cerise in Laplot, and Lazzaris in the mountains, could do was amass at the outer edges at the newly drowned woods. The war was a thousand year period of intense skirmishes - lacking any decisive factor - interspersed with nothing else happening.There was never a critical battle one could point to. The unstoppable mass rammed into the immovable earth and that was that.
The Engagement
Waiting Siege
The waters followed wherever the meridians went and just sat at the Nonantum intersection to block traffic.This remained the status quo for a thousand years because the water would neutralize the acid-base chemistry in their bodies. In that time, the meridians gorged on the creatures of the everdark. As time went on, streams of steam would journey outside the water to raid passersby.
Outcome
Aftermath
Historical Significance
Legacy
Former laplwyd territories in the Everdark were effectively abandoned with few lackluster attempts to recolonize them after the waters receded:
Mardröm was one residence belonging to the diarchs that was blasted to grey ruins. Husby is a human town resurgent all alone in the forest.
Alternate Name
Water Siege on Earth Laplot Blockade
Conflict Type
War, Theatre
Battlefield Type
Land
Conflict Result
Destabilizing, shrinking and dislodging of Thalatta from Farmland
Location
Belligerents
Thalasso
Diarchy of Tee
Strength
Uncertain
Uncounted
Casualties
Uncertain
Uncounted
Objectives
Establish an sustainable hunting grounds
Disrupt Thalatta's spherical hold
Entry for Worldbuilding Summer Camp 2023
Answering: "a conflict between two unequal powers in your world"
In response to the prompt What scars from a past military conflict refuse to heal years, decades or even centuries later?
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