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The War of 102 Years (-19,598 to -19,498)

First Kranakakrak of the Dwarves. Declared by the great orator Uregor the Proud. The war actually only lasted 100 years, although since its end was brought about through time travel, it is perhaps understandable why a different name for the war may have originally entered the oral history and then stuck.

The war began with Uregor the Proud's spontaneous thirst for conquest in approximately the 10,000th year of his reign as Forge-King of the Dwarves. Uregor found his subjects to be equally willing to "have a go at" conquering all the lands. And so with the voice of Skarren Dwarftrusted, Uregor's trusted advisor, being the only voice of descent, an ale-fuelled Dwarven army driven by mindless patriotic fervor swept out over the lands. Where Dwarves met the strongest mounted resistance was where the destruction and losses were the heaviest as Dwarves in the throes of Kranakakrak are strongest where opposed. No governing bodies were set up by the invading Dwarves. No occupation forces were left behind in the conquered territories, merely a populace who startle easily and when asked are willing to admit that the tall and the clean-shaven in society have no right to govern themselves.

The war ended with the sudden appearance of Cedric the Bastard interfering at the Battle of Wang's Peak. Many Dwarves were slaughtered in this battle, including the Forge-King himself, who had kept the fires of war stoked in the forge-hearts of his people for past 100 years. Titak the Badly-Named became the next forge-king and was unable to maintain the enthusiasm, which was anyway significantly quelled by such an unheard of defeat.

The war represents the only time that Dwarves attempted to conquer all of Battal, and even then the proclaimed goal was apparently "just to see if we could do it," so nobody held a grudge.