Agican War

A civil war that began about 20 years prior to the story, in the Kingdom of Agicus, a desert region with little resources of their own, and not nearly as densely populated as The Illidal. This was a significant event for the Imperials because although it started as a minor dispute, it boiled into a war the entire empire took one side or another on. It was particularly important because no true war had broken out between the kingdoms for thousands of years, and this involved every kingdom, not just factions within Agicus. Additionally, no war had been fought externally since the Great War 80 years prior. Every court has war stories referencing the Agican war, and many people are in power now because of their deeds in that conflict, or because their predecessor died in it. The actual results of the war are not important and are never covered to bring attention to this fact, what matters to these people is the trials and spoils of the war itself, the fact that it’s basically the only real military conflict they’d been able to prove themselves in. It’s implied that the rebel faction lost, as Agicus is still a kingdom, and that the imperial forces more or less put down the rebellion and that was that.