The Farnorian-Garendian War

The Farnorian-Garendian War is one of the few records of historical events concerning the ancient elven civilisation which survived the collapse of Elven civilisation. While most records were destroyed during human raids on abandoned elven cities, with most city archives burned as an act of revenge by the illiterate human tribes, the Chronicle of the Farnorian-Garendian War, which documented the war's events, was protected by elven scholars who were spared by the human tribe that would eventually become the Virgandians. It is renowned as a piece of mythological literature in Virgandia, being the only written record which describes the massive scale of destruction and ferocity which the wars between the elven city-states caused.

SYNOPSIS
The Chronicle begins with the recounting of a report to the king of the Garendians, detailing the disasters which had fallen upon the city-state, ranging from earthquakes, the pollution of waterways with harmful alchemical waste, mass disease, desertification of farmland, famine, and a slave revolt which had just been put down, resulting in most of the slaves being killed. The king's decision in response to this was to invade Farnor, another powerful elven city-state which had also suffered from similar calamities, and to seize slaves from its population by capturing them in war. The king then prepared his forces for the invasion, amassing, according to the Chronicle, over 1,000,000 warriors in total, with 200,000 war chariots, 300,000 horsemen, and 10,000 war engines.