Ghyll:Conflict That Is Not Happening - Revision history

Nikos of Ant: scholarly comment

2005-08-28T23:45:42Z

scholarly comment

Jcowan: /* Theoalchemy and the Conflict */ Fixing my name

2005-06-12T03:29:13Z

Theoalchemy and the Conflict: Fixing my name

Jcowan: /* Manifestations / We now know the Unquisition archives are in* the Odlucian.

2005-04-27T13:31:40Z

Manifestations: We now know the Unquisition archives are *in* the Odlucian.

Morbus Iff: Phantoming Pziqq trees per Zhur Fruit.

2005-04-26T14:35:54Z

Phantoming Pziqq trees per Zhur Fruit.

Jcowan: Rearranged headers. Corrected Oblibestircus to Rancticirchiretic.

2005-02-17T16:10:05Z

Rearranged headers. Corrected Oblibestircus to Rancticirchiretic.

Jcowan: /* Theoalchemy and the Conflict */ Pluralizing all categories and refactoring some

2005-01-30T17:17:10Z

Theoalchemy and the Conflict: Pluralizing all categories and refactoring some

Jcowan: /* Manifestations */ linking Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement phantom per Iain Underholm Smallwood

2004-11-11T22:19:55Z

Manifestations: linking Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement phantom per Iain Underholm Smallwood

Jcowan at 04:40, 30 October 2004

2004-10-30T04:40:07Z

Jcowan: Changed category

2004-10-30T04:36:59Z

Changed category

Jcowan: /* Bavarian Creame and the Conflict */ Linking Folktown

2004-10-30T02:31:06Z

Bavarian Creame and the Conflict: Linking Folktown

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		+	As part of my current study, I add here that rumors abound that the "accidental" death of [[Oregano Amber]] in -31 [[EC]] was the result of a 9 year campaign by members of either the [[Altoxian Bulb\|Altoxian Bulb contingent]] or the [[Andelphracian Lights\|Andelphracian Light contingent]] of the trade wars; or at least that someone from the trade wars had kept an eye on him for said duration. I have even heard that the "odd sounds" the poor man heard for months prior to his death was part of a plan to drive him mad. --[[User:Nikos of Ant\|Nikos of Ant]] 19:45, 28 Aug 2005 (EDT)

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 '''Citations:'''  [[Bavarian Creame]], [[Oblibestircus]], [[Rancticirchiretic]].
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 Scholars disagree about whether the [[Raking]] can properly be considered part of the Conflict.  However, there is no question that some of its consequences deeply affected later participants in the Conflict, to the point where it must certainly be accounted a secondary cause of the Conflict's later phases.
-For further information, students of the Conflict should consider consulting the [[Odlucian Library]], the archives of the [[Unquisition]], and back issues of [[Quester and Phorrus]].
+For further information, students of the Conflict should consider consulting the [[Odlucian Library]], including particularly the archives of the [[Unquisition]], and also back issues of [[Quester and Phorrus]].
 ==Aelfants and the Conflict==

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 For the last fifty years, the most visible manifestation of the Conflict is probably the trade war (which occasionally involves weapons) between the [[Iganefta|Iganeftan]] producers of [[Altoxian Bulb]]s, and the northern [[Evesque Valley]] manufacturers of [[Andelphracian Lights]], conducted on [[Berell|Berellian]] and neo-Berellian principles.
-From -97 to -94 {{EC}} a cadet branch of the [[Carsokian]]s fought a lengthy war of mines and countermines with the [[Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement]] over the ''droit d'exploitation'' of the Pziqq trees that grow in the upper slopes of the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]].  As often happens during the more violent phases of the Conflict, the ending was inconclusive, as Pziqq trees have deep taproots and can no longer grow in the disturbed soil.  The ecology of the area is expected to recover by approximately +100 {{EC}}.
+From -97 to -94 {{EC}} a cadet branch of the [[Carsokian]]s fought a lengthy war of mines and countermines with the [[Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement]] over the ''droit d'exploitation'' of the [[Pziqq trees]] that grow in the upper slopes of the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]].  As often happens during the more violent phases of the Conflict, the ending was inconclusive, as [[Pziqq trees]] have deep taproots and can no longer grow in the disturbed soil.  The ecology of the area is expected to recover by approximately +100 {{EC}}.
 Before that, the [[Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution]], since brought to a not entirely successful conclusion, was the best-known aspect of the Conflict. This included a battle for the [[Palace of Lost Souls]], which out of respect for the famous fresco by [[Alarius]] was fought entirely with fungo bats, sock puppets, and poison gas.

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 If everything that has been written about the '''Conflict That Is Not Happening''' is true, it is certainly the oldest, most complex, and most difficult-to-understand social institution in the whole of Ghyll history, or prehistory for that matter.  Indeed, some scholars have traced it as far back as the ancient [[Battle of Barnum Stones]], though others hold that extending the Conflict before about -250 {{EC}} is illegitimate, or at any rate of doubtful validity.
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 For further information, students of the Conflict should consider consulting the [[Odlucian Library]], the archives of the [[Unquisition]], and back issues of [[Quester and Phorrus]].
-==Particular Issues==
+==Aelfants and the Conflict==
 In the year -37 {{EC}}, a short, sharp battle was held on the [[Plain of Brahang]] between two mercenary squadrons allegedly employed by [[Bysted Timperton]] and [[Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood|Baron Smallwood]] over the possession of a precious [[Aelfants|Aelfant]] coprolith, or petrified dung-ball.  During a hand-to-hand struggle between the opposing merc captains, the coprolith unfortunately fractured, making possession of it moot.  The battle was abandoned in mutual disgust; lawsuits over the contingency fees are still pending in the courts of [[Folktown]].
-===The Amphitheatre Aristocracy and the Conflict===
+==The Amphitheatre Aristocracy and the Conflict==
 Very few members of the [[Amphitheatre aristocracy]] are themselves involved as combatants in the conflict, with such well-known exceptions as [[Bobby Shwarmph]].  (I entirely discredit the claim that it is his brother [[User:Tehwalrus|Edward]] rather than he himself who is a (former?) member of the infamous [[Tarkherk Corps|Corps]].)  However, the group has a well-established practice of speculating financially on the ongoing [[Altoxian Bulb|Altoxian]]/[[Andelphracian Lights|Andelphracian]] trade war, which makes them at least peripheral participants in the Conflict's current phase.
-===Arariax and the Conflict===
+==Arariax and the Conflict==
 There is a more or less permanent legend or rumor that the poet [[Arariax]] met his end during a war of assassins, which was the form in which the Conflict was predominantly being manifested during his lifetime.  The legend does not tell, unfortunately, whether [[Arariax]] was himself an assassin or one of the assassinated; a prudent position, adopted by the scholar Gassalasca Jape among others, is that of believing both theories.
-=== Anaximancers and the Conflict===
+== Anaximancers and the Conflict==
 Absolutely no credible evidence has come to light hitherto suggesting that [[anaximancer|anaximancers]] have ever been employed by either side.
-===Bavarian Creame and the Conflict===
+==Bavarian Creame and the Conflict==
 ''This section has been redacted in its entirety to avoid conflict with the libel laws. Note to scholars: the mere act of scattering a text with such terms as "alleged", or of attributing opinions to others, does not constitute an affirmative defense against libel suits in the [[Folktown]] courts.  The [[Tarkherk Corps]] can defend itself, of course.''
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 ''Nor is there any need, by applying such unnecessarily loaded terms as "slut" and "dark-side [[whingelism|whingelist]]", to drastically reduce the reputation this Encyclopedia will so justly acquire among the scholarly community of Ghyll.  Courtesy is never incompatible with truth.  All participating scholars are warned.  --The Copy Editor''
-===Bute University and the Conflict===
+==Bute University and the Conflict==
 An earnest and bitter logomachy is underway at [[Bute University]] which can be seen as an extension of the Conflict, since it concerns the propriety of the possibility of the utilization of the last known surviving [[Avazian Box]] against any unduly successful combatant forces, should the Conflict lead to general military violence once again.  Although Bute is not itself in possession of the Box, this does not prevent the scholars there from taking sides, and quite vehemently too.
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 What the views of [[King Harandraff the Great]] (honored -- in the breach -- as the founder of Bute) would have been in this issue is not known.
-===The Heh-blammo Balance and the Conflict===
+==The Heh-blammo Balance and the Conflict==
 The more violent phases of the Conflict have been a major source of [[heh-blammo balance|heh-blammo imbalance]] during certain periods of Ghyll's history, essentially resulting from the excess of ''blammos'' over ''hehs'' that seems to be inevitable during periods of open warfare.  The [[Brothers of the Lantern]] are said to have worked very hard during these intervals to produce and distribute sufficient ''hehs'' throughout Ghyll to prevent universal chaos.  The Brothers themselves, as usual, neither confirm nor deny this story, and the scholar [[User:Qwentyth Pyre|Qwentyth Pyre]] is on record as not believing it.
-===The Nitenmangrey and the Conflict===
+==The Nitenmangrey and the Conflict==
-The foolish notion of [[Oblibestircus]] that the Conflict began as a competition between rival claimants to the [[Paramount Queen]]ship of the [[Nitenmangrey]], based on their respective styles of [[aquentravalkeration]], has been universally -- and justly -- scorned.  The Conflict, whatever it is or is not, cannot be validly projected nine centuries into the past; that would reduce the distinction between history and mythology to a patent absurdity.
+The foolish notion of [[Rancticirchiretic]] that the Conflict began as a competition between rival claimants to the [[Paramount Queen]]ship of the [[Nitenmangrey]], based on their respective styles of [[aquentravalkeration]], has been universally -- and justly -- scorned.  The Conflict, whatever it is or is not, cannot be validly projected nine centuries into the past; that would reduce the distinction between history and mythology to a patent absurdity.
-===Theoalchemy and the Conflict===
+==Theoalchemy and the Conflict==
 One of the best known but least understood features of the Conflict is that appeals to divine intervention have never been effective in determining either short-term or long-term outcomes.  Attempts to apply [[theoalchemy]] to either the study of the Conflict, or to the conflict itself, have been completely useless.  The Conflict remains a stubbornly secular affair.

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