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Death of Holkkarak and the End of the Murtuy ka Varha (concept)

The Murtuy ka Varha lasted some ten years, during which a near third of Kashirya was destroyed as war was fought against Holkkarak and the dead for some ten years, before the Asritaykan king Asojiva united the faltering realms of the living and led them against Kashirya in what would later be called 'Great Asojiva's War'.

Asojiva united the remaining realms partially through war, but more prominently through diplomacy and intrigue. Most famously, Asojiva was a very prominent theologian, and fables would claim he united eleven warring kings of eleven different faiths through a three-day long theological debate over the true nature of sand and its relation with the creation of the universe. Regardless of the stories, Asojiva marched against Holkkarak with the largest army mustered since the days of the Otachedian Empire along with a vast array of spells gathered by the Vidvaookeyatrans capable of destoying entire cities with apocalyptic blasts.

The event finally ended when the ruins of Caralovya were retaken by Asojiva, who slew Holkkarak and performed a ritual to banish the dead of the land back to the afterlife. As news of the victory spread, a furious mob gathered in Dorajpor and marched upon the academy there, where Navad Javhad had continued copying the rituals he discovered despite an inability to find anyone willing to distribute them. The mob would burn the academy to the ground, beat Javhad to death, and destroy the knowledge of the academy (along with thousands of unrelated books, scrolls, and tablets) and all of their copies. Local warlords soon took part as they reclaimed the east, declaring that all knowledge of the spells Javhad discovered were to be destroyed. Asojiva would then be crowned as the first ruler of the Taryaad Saramsaasan, which would last until the Vaarash.

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