This war and it's prelude has, in my opinion, earned itself a place amongst the most epic stories of BM.
How Ibladesh managed to subjugate it's nemesis Itorunt after countless wars, in fact stealing it's ally Caligus, and then rose to become the largest, richest realm I've ever seen, turning on Caligus out of thirst for heathen blood and imperial conquest only to see it's power crumble and it's star fade in what often seemed like an endless war was truly tragic and oh so epic.
We went into the war out for the destruction of Perdan and Caligus and we paid with our Church and Empire and it was all worth it just for a chance for victory. If victory had come... I don't think we could've been stopped anymore. EC would've become an endless war of Ibladesh vs. Sirion and it would've been, again, epic.
Now the end has come, I'm glad I was part of it for practically the entire war.
Praise Tersea!