The Water Wars

After the Elemental War, the Shadowlands found itself facing an ever-growing race of powerful mystics, the descendants of Furlich, the water children. The Wiley One’s children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, et al had the potential to conquer the world of Keshar and the Shadowlands. For, although the powers of their bloodline diluted over the generations, the chaotic nature of the heritage meant that the power never fully diminished, for a descendant 20 generations removed from the Great Sire might be born with the same level of power as one of Furlich’s Firstborn, thus the water children’s bloodline is perpetually revitalizing. Despite their lineage’s well source of power, they were not conquerors by nature, for their greatest adversaries were destined to be themselves. Ever since the end of the Elemental War, the water children have fought the self-genocidal Water War.
The Water War is a name given in hindsight, much like the Earth War. If one were to simply live through one of its gory conflicts than they might see that fray as a singular event, but if one views all of the generations of feuding water children as a whole, all of them together past, present, and future they would see the true scope of what is dubbed the Water War. Over the ages, it has permutated, escalated and de-escalated. Its campaigns were bloody and numerous: the Sanguine Strife, the Clan Crusades, the Downfall of the Five Houses, the Sprite-Gate Invasion to name some of the most note-worthy. Yet the results of each of the campaigns of the Water War remained unchanged: the water children never threatened the political power structures for their blood-feud left whole generations maimed or dead; after each water the victors grew in power as they siphoned off the elemental force of their vanquished foes; and this strife was destined to erupt again and again. The Water War’s nigh endless strife saw but a few generation-long respites like the Era of Pax Saarden in the Age of Empires and after Wizard War and the Fall of the Great School.