The Khazard–Gnome War is an ongoing military conflict between the Northern and Southern Gnome Empire and the forces of the Mahjarrat General Khazard, centred at the Battlefield. The war is featured in the Gnome quest series. The cause of the war is currently unknown. However, it does appear that fighting between the gnomish and Khazard forces began in earnest due to killings carried out by the Khazard against the gnomes.[1] These attacks themselves may have been in response to gnomish expansion into the region after the gnomes emerged from underground following the end of the God Wars.[2]
At one point the Gnome army got desperate enough to send one of their orbs of protection to the Battlefield.[3] However this left their Village vulnerable, and a group of Khazard soldiers managed to navigate the maze, attack the village (killing King Bolren's wife and many other gnomes),[4] and steal the other orbs.[5] An adventurer managed to recover the orbs, defeating a Khazard warlord who was in possession of one of the orbs.
The war coincides with the Arposandran War, which is also a part of the gnome quest series.
References
- ^ Glough in The Grand Tree. "Glough's Journal". Page 2-3. Old School RuneScape. "Today I heard of three more gnomes slain by Khazard's human troops for fun, I can't control my anger! ... We are small and at heart not warriors but something must be done! We will pick up arms and go forth into the human world! We will defend ourselves and we will pursue justice for all gnomes who fell at the hands of humans!"
- ^ Glough in The Grand Tree. "Glough's Journal". Page 1-2. Old School RuneScape. "However, rather than the great liberation promised to us by King Healthorg at the end of the last age, we have been forced to live in hiding up trees or in the gnome maze, laughed at and mocked by man. Living in constant fear of human aggression, we are in a no better situation now than when we lived in the caves!"
- ^ King Bolren in Tree Gnome Stronghold. Old School RuneScape. "We became desperate, so we took one orb of protection to the battlefield. It was a foolish move."
- ^ King Bolren in Tree Gnome Stronghold. Old School RuneScape. "Khazard troops. They slaughtered anyone who got in their way. Women, children, my wife."
- ^ King Bolren in Tree Gnome Stronghold. Old School RuneScape. "They took the other orbs, now we are defenceless."
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