Seven Year War

Also known as the Bloody Seven, the Seven Year War was a brutal war that claimed over 30 million lives over the course of seven long years. It involved the vast majority of the realm's nations and ended in the establishment of the Conclave. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. The Seven Year War remains the deadliest conflict in the recorded history of the Forgotten Realms.

Early History

Scholars agree that the biggest reasons behind the war were ethical and moral choices of early Humans and Elves that devastated Goliath culture, and eventually led to their armed resistance. In the first days of the Human and Elvish Kingdoms, Viking pioneers and explorers crossed the vast oceanic body of the Fordvern Advance and discovered the outer lands of early day Jotunrath. Before the days of Noble Goliath houses and cities, Jotunrath was called the Frostback Basin, a winding tundra of colossal mountains and valleys. The largest mountain range, the Frostback Mountains protected miles of untouched land home to undiscovered ecosystems of wildlife, raw minerals, and the Goliaths. The first human settlers cautiously attempted to make first contact with the large, blue-skinned natives that inhabited this new land. Strange, small pale men cutting down their trees and erecting flagpoles didn't do well with the first Goliaths who immediately took up arms and attacked any pioneers that got too close. This was met with greater resistance from the Vikings who treated the Goliaths as wild savages. The first conflicts paved the snow thick with blood. The Vikings eventually overpowered the weaker tribes of Goliaths and began to settle the land they had supposedly discovered. (WIP)