The Sundering of Unidiel

The Sundering of Unidiel was a political event that occurred in the year 610.   While the great city of Olimandias has always been the most powerful political entity in the land, the Kingdom of Unidiel had gradually gained enough influence to begin undermining -- and challenging -- the great city and its hegemony. Seeing this threat, Olimandias dispatched a number of Alleviators, special agents, to discretely sow chaos within the Kingdom and turn local leaders against each other. Followed shortly by offers to "pacify" the situation they had caused.   Due to the machinations of the Alleviators, the Kingdom of Unidiel slipped into civil war, and Olimandias mustered an army to march south and forcibly invade.   Knowing that Unidiel was the only nation that could resist Olimandias, this situation quickly became a flashpoint that many factions rallied around. In a strange twist, The Labyrinth, which had regularly raided the Kingdom of Unidiel until then, became the leader of a domain coalition to both defend the Kingdom and launch a major assault on the City of Olimandias.

Selena Nadir met with each of the domain leaders and managed to build a temporary alliance-of-convenience. With the combined forces of Unidiel and the domains, there was a real chance that Olimandias's reign would come to an end.   And then both Selena and Chikara died in the depth of the Labyrinth, right before the offensive was set to begin.   Without Selena serving as the general of a unified army, the alliance-of-convenience immediately fell apart, with domain leaders squabbling over control and tactics. Without cohesion, individual attempts to attack the legions of Olimandias were met with failure. The domains withdrew. Olimandias then successfully pushed south and invaded the Kingdom of Unidiel.   Soundly defeated and occupied by foreign legionnaires, Olimandias formally divided the Kingdom of Unidiel into two separate nations -- Vanadiel and Uradiel. Resources separated and new nations divided by culture, the two new nations have never been able to cooperate. And so ended their resistance.   Olimandias's power remains unchecked, and both Vanadiel and Uradiel are now properly submissive members of the Hegemony.