First Yuricaz War

The First Yuricaz War was a major conflict occurring from 489-499 ACR. The conflict is one of three making up the Great Blackwall War.

The war was begun by King Basilius in 489, after failed diplomacy over borders with the nation of Yuricaz. Basilius called upon Thane Gerald Straton and his vassals in Blackwall Hold to carry out most of the battles.

By 492, the forces of Blackwall, led by Baron Lukas Straton, besieged the fortress of Nubardum in northern Yuricaz. Two months into the siege, Thane Gerald Straton was assassinated by the mountain barbarians, believed to be in league with Yuricans, triggering the Barbarian Uprising of 492-496 and the War of the Three Thanes. Lukas Straton abandoned the siege to march his armies north to take back the crown for House Straton, effectively lengthening the war with Yuricaz.

The Yuricans continued to strike from 492-495 but were given a chance to gather themselves before facing serious threats from Nilos the Enforcer, who after taking the seat of Blackwall, led his armies to conquer Yuricaz from 495-499.

From 498-499 Fort Nubardum was besieged for ten months by Nilos' army. After the surrender of the Yuricans led by General Cylaros Seiwynn, the war was formally ended by the Treaty of Nubardum in 499.