<strong><em>From Cliotan's History</em></strong><br/><br/>And so, as you can see, a more extensive look at the information presently in the archives and in the minds of those who saw these events, shows a much deeper picture of events in Chiaroscuro.  Both groups had already begun exploring the various wonders from the First Age there, and, in so doing, began discovering the extent of the other's presence in that glorious past and weakened present.<br/><br/>While the assault was yet to come, and Bone Ebony Lion was gathering forces for the attack, the Warden decided that a campaign of assassination, dissent mongering, and Essence sabotage should go ahead of the invasion to soften up the defenses of the city, and in so doing, also split the Solars and their assistants, before they could come together.  This did not work.  It was this campaign, not the assault itself, that caused the various anti-Abyssal forces in Chiaroscuro to start to unite.