Editing The Alrennean War (section)

== The Beginning ==
Alrenn began his devastation at [[Coldhaven Academy]] in Noveste, where his brother [[Erlighein Dorian]] once taught, sacking the city and razing Coldhaven to the ground between 13 Midwinter and the end of the year, 4055 VR. The utter destruction of the city was so thorough and infused with such dark magic that it presumably created or at least called the Nightwalker into being, which wandered the ruins until [[Aloysius Pridd IV|Aloysius Pridd]]'s intervention in later years. Alrenn then spread southward, collecting the corpses of the people killed to increase his army. Word spread quickly of Noveste's destruction, but Alrenn was swifter, using powerful necromantic magic to siphon the life out of the countryside itself; merely being within a certain radius of Alrenn's aura was sufficient to steal the life from any organic being, and was powerful enough to even shrug off antimagic fields.

By the end of 4056 VR, Alrenn had conquered the entire eastern seaboard of Teveren, taking the cities of [[Urel]], [[Alyeata]], and [[Jamafar]] with ease, and blighting the [[Pinewood]] and [[Pale Card]] forests so thoroughly that the trees in the east withered into ash, creating the "Gray Sea" between Teveren and [[Katalpa]] for roughly 50 years. Alrenn encountered significant resistance in [[King's Pride]] and [[Ogoni]] (the capital of Teveren at the time), with a stalemate which lasted over eight months as Ogoni's mages invoked numerous wards and walls of force to keep the hordes at bay. However, Alrenn's forces were able to easily outsiege the military of the two cities, as they required no food, water, or air to survive, and his shadow assassins were able to pick off sustenance-creating magic-users over time. Alrenn's forces eventually were able to blight the last of the crops of Ogoni a week before harvest, which caused the remaining people inside to starve to death and become recycled into undead allies of Alrenn.