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The process of [[Awakening]] [[Lifeless]] had already been developed before the Manywar. However, the [[Command]]s that had been known previously required fifty [[Breath]]s to create a single Lifeless.{{book ref|wb|32}} This arrestedstymied thenations' ability forto largecreate amountsa oflarge Lifeless troops to be used in combatarmy, as it was simply too costly.{{book ref|wb|32}}

However, one of the [[Five Scholars]], [[Shashara]], was spurred by [[Yesteel|Yesteel's]] development of [[ichor-alcohol]] into making a new discovery.{{book ref|wb|51}} She invented a [[Command]] that allowed for the creation of a Lifeless with a single Breath.{{book ref|wb|32}} Together these discoveries allowed rulers to effectively double the size of their armies;{{book ref|wb|33}} along with the fact that the new troops did not eat, take pay, or feel pain and fear.{{book ref|wb|32}} Larger standing armies could be created. This made the Manywar the first conflict on Nalthis to utilize Lifeless in great numbers.{{book ref|wb|26}} Powerful Awakeners fought, and siegeropes engineswere suchused as ropessiege wereengines, Awakened to throw boulders.{{book ref|wb|51}}{{wob ref|7375}} The power disparity between those with the new Lifeless Command and those without was another cause of the Manywar.{{book ref|wb|46}}

New Commands were also being discovered rapidly, and a golden age of Awakening took place, due in large part to the Five Scholars.{{book ref|wb|32}} These new discoveries helped further learning and knowledge, but they also provided dangerous weapons. The House of Idris, ruling family of Hanald, werewas particularly interested in Awakening, and gained powerful Awakeners and Lifeless.

At that point, one of the [[Returned]] had a vision of war.{{book ref|wb|32}} This ended up being the catalyst for the war, as it prompted [[Vasher]], then called Strifelover, to preemptively strike preemptively against the other nations before they attacked him.

As the Manywar began, the Five Scholars each seemed to go their own way.{{book ref|wb|32}} It appears likely that [[Vasher]] and [[Shashara]], as husband and wife, remained on the same side. It is also likely that the brothers, [[Arsteel]] and Yesteel, also stayed together. [[Denth]] began the war attempting to make peace, but eventually joined Vasher's side.{{wob ref|5841}} The split of the Five Scholars gave the various nations in the Manywar access to different Awakening knowledge and techniques that the other nations did not have access to.{{book ref|wb|32}}

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AfterFor reasons unknown to the modern world, the House of Idris and its servants fled T'Telir,.{{book theyref|wb|32}} They movedtraveled to the northern highlands of Hanald.{{book, ref|wb|1}}bringing Theythe establishedreligion aof kingdom[[Austrism]] therewith them, namedand Idris afterestablished the familykindgom of Idris.{{book Theref|wb|1}} Idrians,Though whothey had previously experimented with Awakening, they turned their backs on the artit as a whole.{{bookresult ref|wb|46}} The Idrians broughtof their religion,recent [[Austrism]]experiences, with them. Theyand used itsthe tenets of Austrism to make Awakening sound immoral and evil.{{book ref|wb|46}} This fear of Awakening impactedhad Idriansa greatly,deep theirimpact cultureon wasIdrian inculture, fact shaped by it.and Manymany superstitions grew up around Awakening.{{wob ref|6951}} For example, Idrians always worewear drab colors, such as black, whitegreys, or tans, so Awakeners couldcan not use that color.{{wob ref|6025}} However, this wasis notbased on truemisconception, as an Awakener could use those colors anyway. It wasAs a symbolicresult gesture.of this isolation and distrust, Idrians are, for the most part, were totally ignorant about the wayhow Awakening worked, due to their isolation from itworks.

In the wake of the Idrian Royal family's departure, and Vasher's step down from military dictatorship, the Cult of the Returned took control of the new nation, naming it Hallandren.{{book ref|wb|32}} Their religion eventually evolved into the [[Iridescent Tones]], and became the norm within Hallandren's territory. The only notable exception was in Pahn Kahl, which was absorbed into the new nation of Hallandren as a province,{{book ref|wb|54}} where the people retained their own religion and culture.{{wob ref|4498}} The conclusion of the Manywar was also the foundation for Hallandren's power in the region of the [[Bright Sea]] in the modern post-war era.{{book ref|wb|52}}