The Great Battle

There are actually three battles which have been given the appellation The Great Battle, all of them taking place at Ardea, oddly enough. There is the Great Battle of distant myth which ended the Second Epoch, known to the fír suthr as the Battle for the Dawn, in which the three peoples of Doma united to fight the wraith Agiein, The Dark Terror, that threatened all peoples.

The second battle dubbed The Great Battle is also one of distant myth, being the first trial of the Great Man in the Great Man cycle of myths, in which the Great Man faced off against necromancers and their creations and single-handedly wrested victory from despair.

The third and final battle which has this title is the battle which ended the Third Epoch and marked the final trial of the Great Man in the Great Man cycle.

While the battles themselves are buried in myth, there cannot be any doubt, both from the burial grounds and the finds in the area, that a great many battles did take place at Ardea, most of which seem, based on the available evidence, to date to the late Third Epoch, some of which must have been of such import that they were labelled "great."

As to the claims of the first of the great battles, a large-scale fight at Ardea dating to the Second Epoch, it is almost impossible to determine. Laws of the region prevents any archaeological enquiry in the area, as the burial grounds which now cover the ancient killing fields are considered sacrosanct and are not to be touched.