April 12, 8957 AE XX: Xiphatian and Legaian forces began to fight through the city. They each claimed that the other attacked them. The attack came in the middle of the night, most people were asleep, and no one seems to have witnessed the fateful initial attack. Either because they were asleep at the time, or they died in the attack. The nature of the initial attack is unknown. Possibly due to the fighting that followed erasing or obscuring any evidence of the attack that started it. There were massive casualties on both sides. More dead than wounded, as the wounded seemed to only have come from the counter attacks. Both nations blamed the other for the attack. This started a war that would last nearly eight years, with neither side coming out with a decisive victory.
[color=#003153]"I wasn't hiding. I was observing."[/color]
One of the great mysteries of Valencheirn are the ash ghost which appeared not long after the city's destruction. After much investigation, they have been found to be unaware of their deaths. They are not magical in nature, as they seem to be both Xiphatian and Legaian descent. What's more, no person has ever been found to have conducted any sort of necromancy on the people of Valencheirn, which is highly illegal. In addition, only those who seemed to have died in their sleep have turned into ash ghosts. Any attempt to inform them of their deaths is brushed aside. Our best guess is that these people became the ghost due to the trauma and ignorance of their deaths. How this is possible is currently unknown as it has never been seen before.