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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 troopsarmy, to be used in combat,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 engines, Awakened to throw boulders would also be used in combat.{{book ref|wb|51}}{{annotationwob ref|wb|chapter=517375}} 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.{{qawob ref|428|38|Can you give any history on Denth?|date=Jul, 20095841}} 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}}

''Main article: [[{{for|Nightblood]]''}}

Vasher was horrified by the destruction caused by the use of Nightblood.{{annotationwob ref|wb|chapter=266954}} Shashara planned on revealing the secrets of how to create Type IV Biochromatic Entities to the rest of Nalthis. Vasher decideddisagreed, that he couldn't allowbelieving that to occur, he couldn't allow othersuch Awakenedpowerful swordsweapons to become widely available to other nations. He and Shashara argued about it, and he ended up murdering her with Nightblood to stop her.{{book ref|wb|53}} Denth was furiousFurious at the death of his sister, heDenth defected from Vasher's side and never forgave him for it.{{qawob ref|428|38|Can you give any history on Denth?|date=Jul, 20095841}}

At some point during the war, Vasher grew sick of battle and war, possibly due to what he saw Nightblood do in battle. He decided to end the Manywar by returning his Phantoms from battle to Hallandren. He took control of his own nation in an effort to end the fighting, which ended up being successful.{{book ref|wb|epilogue}} The threat of his armies was enough to frighten the all of the nations into ending the war.{{book ref|wb|58}} He was then called Peacegiver by the Hallandren who could not understand why he had ended the war.{{book ref|wb|epilogue}} Vasher then Commanded the Lifeless to stay put like statues, a gift for the city,{{book ref|wb|58}} leaving them Invested with enough Breath to hold their shape, but not to move.{{qawob ref|680|27|Vasher left the Phantoms Invested with enough Breath to hold them together but not to move|date=Jan 18th, 20104500}} While the end of the war came soon enough to save most of the nations involved, Kuth and Huth, main enemies of Hanald in the Manywar,{{book ref|wb|epilogue}} were not so lucky and collapsed.{{book ref|wb|32}}

''Main article: [[{{for|Peacegiver's Treasure]]}}

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, factand shaped by it. Manymany superstitions grew up around Awakening.{{annotationwob ref|wb|chapter=256951}} For example, Idrians always worewear drab colors, such as black, whitegreys, or tans, so Awakeners couldcan not use that color.{{annotationwob ref|wb|chapter=16025}} 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 insulation 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}} Theywhere the people retained their own religion and culture.{{qawob ref|680|25|What do the Pahn Kahl believe in?|date=Jan 18th, 20104498}} 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}}

Over time, the specifics of Kalad's Phantoms were forgotten and they became known as the D'Denir,{{book ref|wb|58}} statues that had been a gift from Peacegiver as a memorial to the thousands killed{{book ref|wb|5}} in the Manywar,{{book ref|wb|28}} as well as a reminder them to avoid going to war.{{book ref|wb|epilogue}} The memory of the monstrous Lifeless remained, though, as both a curse{{book ref|wb|50}} and a myth.{{book ref|wb|32}} Sometimes youths would search the jungles trying to find the Phantoms, to no avail.{{book ref|wb|43}}

While the war itself was over, the tensions between the nations never fully vanished. Tedradel's hatred of Hallandren, in particular, would remain strong well over three centuries later.{{book ref|wb|1}} Pahn Kahl, too, hated Hallandren. Theyand wished to regain their status as an autonomous power.{{book ref|wb|54}} They hatched a plan, later known as the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]], to get Idris and Hallandren to go to war with one another, so Pahn Kahl could declare its independence in the confusion. This obsession with revenge eventually ended up destroying what remained of Pahn Kahl's culture.{{qawob ref|680|25|What do the Pahn Kahl believe in?|date=Jan 18th, 20104498}}

Eventually, about twenty years before the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]], King [[Dedelin]] of Idris and [[Susebron]] of Hallandren arranged a treaty where Dedelin would send one of his daughters to marry the God King, in hopes of forestalling war and easing the rising tensions between the two nations.{{book ref|wb|1}} The daughter would reintroduce the blood of the First Returned to the lineage of Hallandren, reinforcing the God King's claim on the throne. The promise of this daughter kept Hallandren aggression towards Idris at a minimum, at least until they got their bride.

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