Deluge of Hadašham

Outright civil wars did not happen but the increasing corruption, political violence and instability demoralised both the population and the institutions. The first domino to fall was the Viceroyalty of the Ore Mountains rich in natural ressources, short of manpower just as of capable leaders. Their fragmentation started a chain reaction in the west. As the Imperial authority faded local rulers started to invite warriors as mercenaries for their wars. Many brought their families with them and settled in the freshly conquered land turning the military expeditions into full-fledged invasion.

Just at the same times uprisings of subdued natives broke out in all of the Westernlands, while the southern barbarians, long feared along the coasts intensified their raiding. Bands of several thousand warriors ravaging the land burning houses and crops alike, raping women, enslaving the folk weren't uncommon phenomena in this period. The Western Court, once proud and powerful was barely capable of defending the immediate vincinity of Lurrak and the soils of inner Panidutne from the incursions. Their calls for help fell upon deaf ears in the East, where the other two realm either slept a deadly, self-delusional dream, or were entangled in a fight of life and death. Ahargan was decisively defeated in the  First Battle of the Red Tower Pass  in 777. Fleeing a civil war of the unified Šalmaram north of the Zabirath, (of what the Southern courts were all but ignorant) a large group of refugees quickly defeated the remains of the viceroyal army establishing itself in their place.