Eternal War: Difference between revisions

|aka              = Vampire Wars, Great War, first War in Heaven, war agains the Yssgaroth, Yssgaroth campaigns

|location          = [[Spiral Politic]]

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The '''Eternal War''''', ''([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'') also known as the '''Vampire Wars''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', [[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|''The Quantum Archangel'']], [[World Game (novel)|''World Game'']]) '''Great War''', ([[AUDIO]]'': [[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]])'' '''first War in Heaven, war against the yssgaroth''', or '''Yssgaroth campaigns''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') was a protracted and bloody conflict fought against the [[Great Vampire]]s early in [[Time Lord]] history, during the [[Dark Times]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'') It was part of a larger series of Eternal Wars, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]'') the [[Time Wars]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sky Pirates! (novel)|Sky Pirates!]]'', ''[[River of Time (short story)|River of Time]]'', et al.)

According to a transmission which [[Sam Jones]] received on [[Anathema]], that may have been influenced by [[Faction Paradox]] propaganda, the war began when [[Rassilon]] first opened a [[black hole]] in an attempt to draw power from other planes of existence. The black hole reached through to [[Spiral Yssgaroth|an inhabited plane]], and monsters with great leathery wings and bat-like heads swarmed through the opening. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference]]'')

According to ''[[The Thousand and Second Night]]'', the vampires, called the djinn in this account, survived the destruction of their world "before the first time"; the "[[caldera|cauldron of creation]]" also survived from this "world before the world", and Rassilon, dubbed [[Allah]] in this telling, filled it with an infinite black emptiness in which he could dissolve the current world and create a new one. [[Iblis]], the leader of the djinn, wanted Allah's power for himself, so he convinced the djinn to help him steal the cauldron and bring it from [[Heaven (afterlife)|Jannat]] to [[Hell|Jahannam]]. Allah formed his [[Time Lord|angels]] into five [[Chapter|great tribes]] and many [[Great House|smaller tribes]] and sent them to defend the cauldron. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'')

The ferocity and resilience of the Vampires made their defeat very difficult. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') They drank the angels' [[blood]] and feasted on their power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') Led by [[Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu]], Gallifrey’s forces pushed the Yssgaroth back into their own universe over a thousand years, though billions of people were killed and whole star systems were destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'') The [[Qwerm]] were allied with Gallifrey and assisted in fighting against the Great Vampires. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[River of Time (short story)|River of Time]]'')

Eventually, all but one of the Great Vampires — the [[King Vampire|swarm leader]] — were found and destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference]]'') The node points in the [[Spiral Politic|metastructure of history]] that were outlets to the Yssgaroth's universe were blocked and reinforced by forced-matter shells disguised as [[planet]]s — unless someone attempted to drill to the planet's core. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') These planets included the [[Althosian system]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'') and [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference]]'', ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') The idea to hide it inside Earth came from [[Shift (Head of State)|someone]] who was neither a djinn nor an angel. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') According to the possibly Faction-altered account, the Engineer handled designing the artificial planets, while Rassilon led Gallifrey's fleet in the final push against the Vampires, sealing the [[Spiral Yssgaroth|Vampire's home realm]] off from their universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactics]]'')

The djinn could not reach the [[caldera|cauldron]] hidden within the Earth, so they mixed with [[human]] women and created the [[Mal'akh]], who laid in wait until the angels returned to take the cauldron back to Jannat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') [[Iphigenia]] was also located on a universal [[ley line]] as protection against the Great Vampires. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') [[Lolita]] would claim to have bought an end to the war "in a way the [[Time Lord|Pilots]] would never have noticed" shortly after her birth, and at the direction of her [[The Matrix|mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'') After spending years searching in vain for the King Vampire, Rassilon declared the war over. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Multi-Faceted War (short story)|The Multi-Faceted War]]'')

[[The Monk (The Bloodletters)|The Monk]] believed that the planet [[Gallifrey]] itself had originally orbited a single [[sun]], and it was turned into a [[binary system]] by [[Rassilon|He-of-Many-Epithets]] (including retroactively, through [[time travel]]) during the war with the vampires, as a precaution, ensuring that the precise "interference pattern" between the light of the two suns destroyed even vampires with a resistance to ordinary sunlight. Naturally, later generations remained unaware that their planet had ever had less than two suns. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bloodletters (novel)|The Bloodletters]]'')

[[File:Faction Paradox armour.jpg|thumb|left|[[Faction Paradox]] harnessed the bones of what they claimed to be vampirised Homeworlders from a timeline where the Homeworld lost the war. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')]][[Faction Paradox]] claimed that their [[Faction Paradox armour|iconic ceremonial armour]] was made from the bones of vampirised [[Time Lord|Homeworlders]] from an [[alternate timeline (The Book of the War)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Yssgaroth]] won the war and [[V Factor|corrupted]] their fallen enemies. However, the Houses denied this claim (in line with their insistence that alternate timelines didn't exist), and even Faction experts on the Yssgaroth thought there may be more to the story. At any rate, the bones were sourced from an "[[abomination's graveyard]]" accessed by the [[Godfather-lieutenant]]s of [[the Grandfather]] through the [[caldera]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')