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The Great Wyrm War is 36 years long and contains zero named battles. military_conflicts.great_wyrm_war is the only entity of its type in the index. This package gives the war a campaign spine: four phases, seven child conflicts, and the seven geographic features those conflicts happen on.

Grounding

Everything here is built outward from assertions the canon entry already makes:

• The war opens when Revakgol crosses the Medestul's northern border and burns the watch-posts of Vekh'Zural.
• It is fought by attrition and siege, not decisive battle, with fortified roads and supply lines built as the army advances.
• War academies teach the "Seventy Claws of the Northern Campaign"; Saarotsos children chant the names of fallen citadels.
• It ends in 1305 AZN with a final mountain bastion surrounded and the Paathur slain.

Items

Patches to the parent (3) — timeline block (currently empty on the military_conflict entity, though the event twin has the dates), a working summary to replace the current opening-sentence fragment, and a new content.campaign_phases section.

Child conflicts (7) — Vekh'Zural, Sosaaz, Busyl Causeway, the Yuliz Sieges, Netin'Fojaa, Urtkaa, Kaagaat.

Locations (7) — the Medestul, Vekh'Zural, the Ihtaa Fens, the Busyl Causeway, the Saark, Netin'Fojaa, Kaagaat.

Relationship edges (7) — parent-to-child links from the war to each engagement.

Design notes

Dual naming. Each engagement carries an imperial name and a Zegtuzsos name. The parent entry closes on the argument that two peoples remember the same flame differently; at present only Kaemisyol's side has a vocabulary. The paired names put that thesis into the record structure rather than leaving it as an assertion in the legacy section.

Why 36 years. Twelve of them are the Ihtaa Fens. The duration currently reads as an assertion with no mechanism behind it. Phase II supplies one, and the Busyl Causeway disaster gives the Imperial Logistics Corps — which the aftermath text founds and then never explains — a cause.

Seventy Claws. Defined here as a war-academy syllabus of seventy catalogued actions from the Road War phase, of which Yuliz and Netin'Fojaa are the two every officer knows.

Kaagaat was never stormed. Kaemisyol declined the assault. This is the tactical fact underneath the political choice canon already records: storming it would have killed the last Mulaagjuns capable of surrendering the Paathur system he wanted intact.

Open questions

1. The Medestul. Canon says "the Medestul's northern border," which reads as either a river or a territory. This package treats it as a river forming the frontier. If it is a province or a people, six of the seven locations still stand but the opening campaign needs restaging.
2. Entity type location does not yet exist in the index. A template guideline exists at canon/template_guideline/location.md, but no canon entity uses the type. These seven would be the first. Alternative: file them as geography or fold them into the conflict entities as terrain sections.
3. Twin entities. military_conflicts.great_wyrm_war holds the prose; history.events.the_great_wyrm_war holds the dates and every incoming relation. The patches here target the military_conflict entity. A decision on which is the spine is still outstanding and is not resolved by this package.
4. Coined names are non-canon candidates. Sosaaz, Busyl, Yuliz, Urtkaa, Kaagaat, Ihtaa, Saark come from generate_names. Netin'Fojaa is a lexicon compound (netin = ash/coal, fojaa = gate) and the translate tool warns that its grammar ordering is not fully applied. Rename freely.
5. No Zegtuzsos are named. The Paathur killed at Urtkaa and the twelve Mulaagjuns remain anonymous. Deliberate — that was a separate gap and is not addressed here.