Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Garvenus/The Stormlords (section)

=Battle for the Central Lands=
Soon after the calamitous war, the Central Lands were in great disarray, a factor which may have led to the first foreign invasions into there, the event which many consider as the beginning of the '''Three-Way War'''. It is suggested by Vashialian and Benaloran accounts that the "tribal folk were easy to conquer, and easier to run off," probably given their weaker state after the War of Unification only a generation or so before. Running to their newly minted rulers, the northern members of the Stormlords sought assistance with their plight. However as the Stormlords were also recovering from the War, they were unable to assist them in defending their new holdings. Weren't it for the fact that by this point both Vashial and Benalor were fighting each other for the right to control the Central Lands, many thought it would have been possible for a direct assault upon the Steppe.

Although they were unable to directly attack either of the invaders during this time, the Stormlords managed to stave them off by sending retinues of their warriors to both the Vashialians and the Benalorans in an attempt to have both of them wear each other out and drive them away from the Central Lands in a stalemate. The two groups of warriors would present themselves as separate tribes submitting themselves to their new colonial masters, an act that greatly displeased the warriors in question despite its necessity in the plan. They would provide their respective Empires with intelligence about the Central Lands, deliberately running the Empires into each other and forcing them to fight each other. To make the ruse even more convincing at first, the warriors would fight on their respective sides, sometimes even killing each other in order to maintain their cover.