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Lore without sources after the Battle of Al Haikk[]

After several reads the info presented here is still without a source feel free to help with their implementation with the main article.

As the wars reached the third year, Jaffar's forces began to disintegrate, as many of his warriors began to tire of his rule. Sultan Jaffar had been a despot and tyrant, hated almost as much by his own people as by the old worldlings, and during the Crusades against Araby many of his subjects seized the opportunity to rise up against the Sultan. Some tribes simply deserted and disappeared into the Great Desert awaiting the outcome. These uprisings generally had little impact on the Crusades, but when Old World Knights fell upon the city of Al-Haikk and began to besiege it, hundreds of tribal warriors recruited by the Sultan's army decided to rebel, as well as many Arabyan nobles, plunging the city into confusion and thwarting the defense plans meticulously laid out by the Sultan.[No Source]

Jaffar was forced to give up his strategy of firmly resisting the assault of the knights and wearing them down in siege warfare. Chaos had taken over the Arabyan capital, so instead he had to face them in the open. Jaffar summoned the Djinns from the depths of the desert to fight alongside his armies, trusting that the desert sun and the fear that it inspired in men would procure victory for him. But the invaders had already learned to use magic and common sense to resist the ravages of the sun, keeping their heavy metal armor cool until just in time to enter combat. Although the two armies were evenly numbered, the crusaders numbered several thousand knights in plate armor riding on equally armored steeds; they were like an unstoppable wave of metal, thousands of tons of steel crushing the light armor of the sultan's spearmen and swordsmen. While the Old World Knights were unstoppable, the power of the elementals and the terrible magic of Jaffar swept through the enemy infantry, and for a few seconds that was the end of the invasion. But at that moment, a second contingent of knights appeared on the dunes, and charged again against the Arabyan rear.[No Source]

Jaffar died that day, pierced through the back by a Bretonnian lance as he fled. But even after the Sultan's dead, the Crusades did not come to an end. Two other large cities were held by those loyal to Jaffar; the impregnable Martek and the fearsome Lashiek. Martek was besieged by the Old Worlds and rebellious Arabyans, while Lashiek was siege by a large army. The allies marched south to take the city, and with towers and ladders stormed its walls.[No Source]

Now seeing their honour satisfied, the knights of Bretonnia decided to return to Copher and sail home, for they found this land far too vast, hostile and inhospitable to conquer. The Bretonnian knights, who made up more than half the army, sail for their land in their ships with their holds loaded with exotic treasures. Yet most of the Imperial knights stayed for years hunting down and defeating remnants of Jaffar's dark empire, where only after a 100 years had passed before the very last of the Empire troops had returned home. Temples were sacked, evil books were burned and the idols of Araby were flung to the dirt. At that point, the main Crusade began to split into several minor crusades as the various contingents of knights pursued the remaining Jaffar soldiers and free every last of the captured slaves in the Old World. It was in this century that many of the Imperial Knightly Orders were founded, as they discovered many things previously unknown in the Old World.[No Source]

ensuring the racial purity of the Empire and the persecution of all mutants. The new Great Sultan reconquered the island of Fyrus, and expelled the Bretonnians who had occupied it, massacring all who resisted. The Sacred Monastery of the Divine Origo was destroyed, and Fyrus was returned to the Arabyan crown. In this way, Araby was once again unified, thus beginning its reconstruction.[No Source]

During these years, an order of Bretonnian knights known as the Holy Order of Saint Origo arrived on the Coast of Araby, seeking revenge and honor. They took the rich island of Fyrus,[16a]

Check from this point... which was unprotected, because his troops had come to the call of Jaffar, onastery of the Divine Origo. This island was extremely important to the Arabyans, as the revered Mullah Aklan’d was born there, a legendary hero for the Arabyan people, so this invasion would not go unpunished for the inhabitants of the desert. The knights for their part set out to launch a campaign of looting along the Coast of Araby, devastating villages and towns, and ending whatever opposition they encountered on the high seas.[No Source]

Arabyan Conquest[]

From how I read it,Arabyan Conquests is just the name given to the invasion of Estalia (and Tobaro) by the Arabyans. Not another name of the Crusade Against Araby that is the counter invasion of Araby and the liberation of Estalia.

This is true, but as both wars (the invasion and the counter-invasion) are treated in this article, I would prefer to have it added somewhere at the beginning (alternatively split the article, to have one to deal with the crusade proper and one to deal with the Arabyan attack that preceeded it).Sharth (talk) 20:04, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

There are two choices here as Sharth indicated: you simply duplicate the portion of the article concerning the Arabyan Conquest and make it a new page with a non-bolded link to it on the original page. I would also leave the portion of the original article concerning the Conquests intact and simply have it in both places. Tell the whole story for a reader from whatever angle they come at it, as a wiki is a three-dimensional space. However, a simpler way to deal with this, which is certainly legitimate, is to create a redirect for the Arabyan Conquest to the section of the page that describes those precursor events and then link to it in the introduction. In truth, this might be the best and surely the simplest way to do this, as we don't really need to create repetitive articles on the same topics over and over. --Montonius (talk) 16:42, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

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