Mellvellon on the ropes 285-300PC

The war against Typhus' realm in 280PC had by no means settled the affair in the southern peninsular lands of Palurin. There was a brief period when the war went "cold" for some fourteen years, but the Dragon Lords of Mellvellon knew that behind the walls defending his realm, the deranged lord of the skaven race was plotting another assault on the colony of Sein Craban.

As the years progressed Mellvellon suffered further setbacks. The overlods of Cuitlaxaochitzin were angered by the slow payment of the war debt the high elves owed to the Ogres of Graag, and the alliance of the two nations fell apart dramatically in 286PC. An army was sent from the Lizardmen kingdom to the north of Canabrin, following the ancient roads of the continent, and defeated the high elves in open battle in that year. The war could have continued, but Lord Illius, realising the Ogres had prevented his fortress of the Tears of Isha from falling to the skaven hordes, paid the debt himself. The Ogres were satisfied and relations patched up, but divisions within the aristocracy of Mellvellon grew ever deeper over the affair.

Worse was to follow. Weakened by the unecessary war against Cuitlaxaochitzin and the constant need for a garisson in the south, the lords of Mellvellon were hard pressed to counter the expansion of the Kaalroen Empire. Seizing his opportuinity and sensing vulnerability, Lord Tragean of Hovedstaden moved his forces into the contested region of the Branmeren hills in the early 290s. Regular skirmishes culminated in a large battle to the south of Hermansverk in 291PC. The elves were crushed, and despite several smaller battles in the coming years, the high elves were unable to stop Tragean from extending the Kaalroen Empire's dominion over all the highlands of Arnar.

Any hope of removing the chaos taint from the Branmeren region died in 294PC when news reached Dragonspire recieved news of an army marching on Sein Craban once more. Desperately the high elves called on their allies in Cuitlaxaochitzin for aid, but in that year unrest had taken hold of the lizardmen realm with divisions between the lizardmen and Ogre communities rendering aid impossible. The internal conflict was resolved quickly with a victory to the lords of Cacauaxochitl, but this ensured the elves would fight alone in the south.

Typhus' army marched on Sein Craban, culminating in a furious battle along the river Endwe. The battle resulted in a rout of the proud armies of Mellvellon and the Tears of Isha, saved in 280PC, fell to the marauding skaven. The populace of the colony retreated to the city of Sein Craban itself, where a monument to the many dead was erected in their honour, a symbolic act considered a waste of resources which may have been better spent on more defence preparations. As the 3rd century PC neared its end, the very existence of the high elf colony of Sein Craban hung in the balance.