Editing The Alrennean War (section)

== Pre-War ==
The war's beginnings lie in Novius Dorian's ascent to lichdom, somewhere around 600 years prior to the war's onset. Novius adopted a shortened version his childname, Alrennikar, "pale and joyful child" in Elvish; Alrenn simply means "pale" but can be inferred to mean "devoid of life."

Alrenn took residence in [[Merfen's Tower]] in the [[Frozen Wastes]] north of Teveren. How long he resided there is unknown, but for at least 100 years prior to his eventual push southward, he had manipulated and subjugated the [[Northern Tribes]] of Teveren, forcing them to all but worship him and eventually slaughtering them to consume their souls and raise the start of his undead army. He achieved this with the help of the ancient white dragon [[Sav Garan]], himself subjugated by Alrenn after a lengthy battle.

At some point, likely close to the start of the war, Alrenn or an intermediary traveled into the mines of [[Urster]] in Akhentour, waking an ancient atropal called [[Jarunvandir]] there and making a pact with it to power Alrenn's [[Staff of Siphoning|Siphoning Staff]]. The exchange was power for energy; Alrenn gave the atropal a portion of the life force he was siphoning from the land in exchange for a fraction of the atropal's entropic power. A symbiotic relationship, if you will.

Once he had a sufficient infantry, Alrenn began to push southward. Sav Garan fled westward soon after this and was last seen by the Northern Tribes of Akhentour.