Caldera Conflict

A low-intensity conflict between Wyrmhold and Byssia from 220 AC to 221 AC. Notable for being the last effort by the Adventurer's Guild before it turned away from adventuring (and being the catalyst for that decision). Adventurers fought on both sides until the Guild and its high-level leadership pulled strings and unified them to put an end to it.

Fought over expansion into the Nocthian Caldera and ownership of the relics left behind. Wyrmhold claims them by right of conquest over the Hungering Frost and the abandonment of them by the Nocthian civilization; Byssia claims them by right of inheritance from their ancestors, the Nocthians. They also claim them as religious relics, sacred to Nocthis, now reborn.

This conflict still goes on via proxy warfare--both sides arm, train, and advise the local jazuu and barbegazi tribes. There are plans (on both sides) to heat it up again now that the Guild is no longer so focused on peacekeeping, but neither side has made substantial moves. Wyrmhold is planning a new set of bastion forts to extend their controlled area much further toward Mt Nyx, while the Byssian plans, as usual, are quite murky and subtle.