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==Peace of Rain==

The conquest had bled all Vilous white. Small incursions were made into [[Vilous#Jiar-Jia_(The_Swamp_of_Death)|Jiar-Jia]], [[Vilous#Vekshimar_Uresh|Vekshimar Uresh]], and Mensala, but very little military progress was made in those theaters, as the infrastructure necessary had mostly been destroyed. Not even the feared general could coax more conquest from her empire. And so, reluctantly, she allowed it to turn its efforts to rebuilding.

These domestic tasks were almost entirely handled by subordinates, however, as during this time, General Rain Silves turned her attention to the life-magic of the shamans. She failed, disinterested with their life rituals, but her spirit was strong with the blood she'd spilled and drank. She used the knowledge she had gained from the shamans to develop her own magery. She learned to twist her own body, in small ways at first, but with growing talent.

Hope, by both the southern sergals and the empire's neighbors, that the crude autocracy would collapse, proved empty. Rain refused to die, cutting down assassins with glee, and resisting their most exotic poisons. With time, rumors spread of these unfortunates dying not to the blade of the increasingly mad general, but a monster with a thousand horrible shapes, sharing only her slitted yellow eyes.

And then, one night, Rain vanished. Her reign lasted thirty years, and colors every part of sergal society to this day. Before her time, yellow eyes were considered bad luck for a sergal, or worse. After, such creatures were treated with a nervous respect, for fear that it might be the general in disguise. In her absence, Vilous has remained united under one banner, perhaps out of simple fear that the the monster empress would return should it fall.