Forge: Netin'Fojaa

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{
 "aliases": [
  "The Ash Gate",
  "The Throat"
 ],
 "content": {
  "consequence": "Netin'Fojaa ends the Road War and opens the Cliff Sieges. With the pass held, the highland clan-holds could be reached individually and could no longer reinforce one another.",
  "engagement": "He burned it open. Kori was used at a scale the war had not previously seen and the Kori Codexes were standardized within a generation partly on the basis of what was recorded here.\n\nThe imperial name is literal rather than figurative. After the fighting the floor of the pass lay under coal-ash to a depth that killed the ground; nothing grew there for a generation and the road through it was built on ash rather than soil.",
  "overview": "A single pass, the only practical route from the Saark cliff country into the northeastern highlands. The Zegtuzsos had held it for twenty-five years by holding nothing else - every other approach was worse.\n\nKaemisyol came north for it personally.",
  "two_names": "The Zegtuzsos call the pass the Throat, and had called it that long before the war - it is a description of the terrain. That the Empire renamed it for what it did there, and that the Zegtuzsos kept the older name, is the whole disagreement in miniature."
 },
 "id": "military_conflicts.netin_fojaa",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. Netin'Fojaa is a lexicon compound: netin (ash, coal) + fojaa (gate). The translate tool warns that sigtaara grammar ordering is not fully applied to such compounds.",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "Netin'Fojaa",
 "native": "Netin'Fojaa",
 "relations": {
  "belligerents": [
   "The Grand Army",
   "Coalition of Tribes"
  ],
  "commanders": [
   "Kaemisyol"
  ],
  "location": [
   "Netin'Fojaa"
  ],
  "parent_conflict": [
   "Great Wyrm War",
   "history.events.the_great_wyrm_war"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": null,
 "summary": "The breaking of the highland pass in 1294 AZN, and the only engagement of the Road War that Kaemisyol commanded in person. The pass has been dead ground since.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war",
  "third_age",
  "seventy_claws"
 ],
 "timeline": {
  "year_end_AZN": 1294,
  "year_end_MV": 5894,
  "year_start_AZN": 1294,
  "year_start_MV": 5894
 },
 "type": "military_conflict"
}

[Schema template & register reference — The Burning of Vekh'Zural (military-conflicts-burning-of-vekh-zural). Match its SHAPE and VOICE; do not mirror its content.]
{
 "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'Zural 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'Zural is a canon name; its character as a signal-chain rather than a garrison is proposed here.",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "The Burning of Vekh'Zural",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "belligerents": [
   "The Grand Army",
   "Coalition of Tribes"
  ],
  "location": [
   "Vekh'Zural"
  ],
  "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"
}

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