Skinks establish homeland

In 455PC the second most powerful nation on Palurin was shaken by a new force in Cuitlaxaochitzin. For four and a half centuries the prevailing system of hierarchical government had been in operation, with the Slaan governing and the skinks serving. Gradually a mood of dissention had been building in the realm, and in 454PC a new force calling itself "the skink revolution" appeared in the land, raising followers and finally an army.

In truth the skink revolution didn't actually mobilise more than one in ten skinks, but the problem was alarming to the rulers of Cuitlaxaochitzin, and infuriating to the Ogres of Graag who had fought tenaciously to keep the empire together. In 455PC this tension came to a head when the Ogres of Graag were sent into north western Cuitlaxaochitzin to put down the rebellion.

The skinks met the Ogres on the plains of Cullinor, in Chimalman near the upper Laerthad. Despite the obvious size differences, the battle was a bloody stalemate. At the end of the fighting the skinks fled west, around the northern pass of the Cullins mountain range. The Ogres did not pursue, and the region of Skink Havens was established, with its capital at Sanctuary. Safely protected by the Cullins, Skink Havens proved more effort than it was worth to attempt to reconquer, so for now the sepratist skinks had their homeland, although most skinks were perplexed by the revolution.