The Burning of Vekh'Zural

{
  "aliases": [
    "The First Light",
    "The Night of Smoke"
  ],
  "aliases_note": null,
  "content": {
    "engagement": "There was almost no fighting. The posts held between four and nine wardens each and were built to see, not to hold. Where resistance occurred it lasted minutes. Imperial accounts record fourteen Revakgol dead across the entire march.\n\nWhat the burning achieved was not military but temporal: it cost the Zegtuzsos the interval between detection and invasion that their whole northern defensive doctrine assumed they would have.",
    "overview": "Not a battle. Vekh\u0027Zural was a warden-march of roughly thirty watch-posts strung along the north bank of the Medestul, garrisoned by signalmen rather than soldiers. On a single night in 1269 AZN, advance columns of the Grand Army crossed in darkness at multiple points and fired the posts before their wardens could pass a warning north.\n\nThe Paathur learned of the invasion from the fires themselves.",
    "two_names": "The Saarotsos call it the First Light and teach it as the model opening operation - surprise, dispersal, simultaneity. The Zegtuzsos call it the Night of Smoke and do not teach it at all. It appears in clutch songs as a list of thirty names in fixed order, which is the order the posts burned.",
    "vital_statistics": {
      "outcome": "The Grand Clutch is called. Twelve Mulaagjuns answer. The war begins with the Zegtuzsos already reacting rather than positioning.",
      "result": "Revakgol success; Zegtuzsos northern watch destroyed",
      "type": "Raid / opening operation"
    }
  },
  "id": "military_conflicts.burning_of_vekh_zural",
  "meta": {
    "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. Vekh\u0027Zural is a canon name; its character as a signal-chain rather than a garrison is proposed here.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "The Burning of Vekh\u0027Zural",
  "native": null,
  "relations": {
    "belligerents": [
      "The Grand Army",
      "Coalition of Tribes"
    ],
    "location": [
      "Vekh\u0027Zural"
    ],
    "parent_conflict": [
      "Great Wyrm War",
      "history.events.the_great_wyrm_war"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": null,
  "summary": "The opening act of the Great Wyrm War: a Zegtuzsos signal-chain fired in a single night by Revakgol advance columns, 1269 AZN.",
  "tags": [
    "great_wyrm_war",
    "third_age"
  ],
  "timeline": {
    "year_end_AZN": 1269,
    "year_end_MV": 5869,
    "year_start_AZN": 1269,
    "year_start_MV": 5869
  },
  "type": "military_conflict"
}