Concord-Elsie Incident

The Concord-Elsie Incident was the primary event that started the Third Himnyan War. This occured when crown princess Elsie-Maria Trevedor of the Trevedor Dynasty from the Kingdom of Basnera refused to return home after visiting the minor Kingdom of Khobasa.

This was because Princess Elsie wished to marry crown prince of Khobasa Michel Lucstaze, and was denied permission from her parents as Basnera and Khobasa had been rival countries for generations.

When Basnera sent a secret mission, codenamed Concord, to retrieve the royal daughter by force, the mission was thwarted halfway through because Princess Elsie called upon a magical flower given to her by the Prince in the process of being kidnapped by her people. Therefore, the Prince, who now knew she needed help and where she needed help, dispatched a couple one hundred men to pursue the Concord party who, by the time the Prince's party caught up, was on their boat on the bank of the Tides River. Because the Prince was perfectly aware of where the Princess Elsie and her party were, the Invisibility Spell put on the Concord people wore off. While the people from Basnera were taking off after summoning a favorable wind, Prince Michel, forgetting that his Princess was on the ship, burst the ship on fire and the people abandoned ship. While Elsie was locked in a prison on the boat, she drowned. Subsequently, the crew attempted to swim across the river only to be killed off in the process. Thus, the secret mission failed and Princess Elsie died.

As a result, the Basneran king and queen were furious and declared war upon Khobasa, and immediately launched another brief attack, namely, the Battle of Tides River, this time, much more armed and prepared.

Due to the large system of alliances garnered by both nations, dragged most of the Core Realm kingdoms into continental war. Thus began, the Third Himnyan War.