Forge: The Siege of Kaagaat

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{
 "aliases": [
  "The Last Clutch"
 ],
 "content": {
  "consequence": "The refusal to assault is the tactical fact underneath the political choice the parent entry already records. Storming Kaagaat would have killed the surviving Mulaagjuns, and Kaemisyol wanted the Paathur system intact and legitimate enough to govern through. A bastion taken by storm has no one left with the standing to surrender it.\n\nThe delegation went to Vusokaar in 1305. The Paathur system was preserved beneath the Dovahrein; imperial garrisons were admitted at key sites; the Mulaagjuns kept authority over Zegtuzsos villages.",
  "engagement": "Kaemisyol invested it in the winter of 1303 and did not assault it. Rings of fortified road were built around the mountain over the following two years - the same methodical technique used at Yuliz, applied to a target that could not be starved out quickly because it sat on its own water.\n\nThe defenders were not short of food when they surrendered. They were short of reasons.",
  "overview": "The last hold. Canon records the war's end as a delegation sent from a surrounded mountain bastion to Vusokaar under a white-scorched banner; Kaagaat is that bastion.\n\nIt was never stormed.",
  "two_names": "The Last Clutch is the Zegtuzsos name and is used without irony. The Empire has no distinctive name for it - it is simply Kaagaat, which in Saarotsos usage has come to mean an ending that everyone survived."
 },
 "id": "military_conflicts.siege_of_kaagaat",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. 'Kaagaat' is a generate_names candidate (sigtaara).",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "The Siege of Kaagaat",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "belligerents": [
   "The Grand Army",
   "Coalition of Tribes"
  ],
  "commanders": [
   "Kaemisyol"
  ],
  "location": [
   "Kaagaat"
  ],
  "parent_conflict": [
   "Great Wyrm War",
   "history.events.the_great_wyrm_war"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": null,
 "summary": "Twenty-six months of encirclement at the final Zegtuzsos mountain bastion, ending the Great Wyrm War in negotiated surrender, 1305 AZN.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war",
  "third_age"
 ],
 "timeline": {
  "year_end_AZN": 1305,
  "year_end_MV": 5905,
  "year_start_AZN": 1303,
  "year_start_MV": 5903
 },
 "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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