Battle of Ishvalla

As the empire pushes forward many have fallen on all sides. The people of Ishvalla were a tribal society within the deserts mostly uncaring for outsider polices hoping to stay themselves.

The people of Ishval had clashed several times with the central government of the Empire in the past and had been annexed to a region in the southeast of the nation, near the Eastern Desert. Though religious and cultural tensions continued between Ishvalans and Imperials, a relative peace had been achieved between the two until 1233 AP, when an Imperial soldier killed an Ishvalan child during a riot. The area exploded in a storm of riots and protests until the situation had become an all out civil war, causing massive casualties on both sides. Though the Imperial Military had the Ishvalans outnumbered by far, Ishvalan rebels were able to keep the conflict going due to a steady supply of arms from the neighboring country of Cawold, which aided the rebels in order to weaken Imperial southern border for their own gains.

The fighting continued to spread until the entire East Area of the Empire had become a war zone. In 1240, a full seven years since the conflict had begun, Imperial Emperor Ireena the Greater issued Order 306, sending Imperial Mages  to the front lines to act as human weapons without regard for civilian causalities. This decision decisively, and horrifically, ended the war with the territory of Ishval being occupied by Imperial soldiers and the surviving Ishvalans spread throughout the country as refugees.