On a quiet evening in early 2372 3G.c, the Violate King and his army appeared from nowhere outside the walls of Kerebrihn in South Arath. Called the 'Three Hour War', the siege of Kerebrihn barely lasted til twilight, and by dawn the city was conquered. The King presumably slaughtered the royal family of Kerebrihn, only keeping Herald-Princess Sunnivah alive in forced marriage. From Kerebrihn, he stole the royal blade Longitude, a gift from the Wrights of Heas, and Kerebrihn's greatest secret; a Theseht Terraformer from the First Cycle, which he then used to turn verdant Kerebrihn into a wasteland.

The King would then leave Kerebrihn 6 months later to raid the Southern Eridinea. Treated as nothing more than a bandit lord, proud Herald warrior Alsendar of the city Gaeherin marched with his paramilitary 'Gaellerants' to run down what he assumed was another independent warband from Arath. The King would swiftly tear the confused Gaellerants apart, Alsendar watching on in horror as the ground swallowed his men whole, and their city of Gaeherin then flatted and wiped off of the map, before he too died at the hands of the King.

The King would go on to win a number of successive battles in the south against cities in the Eridinea, using superior tactics, his well trained fanatical army, and the power of this terraformer to break his enemies apart. While the Combine Assembly swiftly sent envoys to negotiate tithes for Voltaine, Herald Eeder grimly denounced the King, and led the Maysurian army to fight the King. This culminated in his defeat and retreat to Maysuria. To send a message to Enaeth, King Voltaine collapsed Maysuria into a cube, crushing everyone within its walls and leaving a horrifying epitaph to the Kings power and his promise of utter annihiliation.

The King would then spend the next two years moving through the Enaeth, destroying towns, infrastructure and roads as he went, leaving the landscape permanently altered. From these townships, the King began to pick from the enslaved children those he envisioned would continue his campaign against existence, pressing them into a life of violence and training them to eventually be his greatest warriors, later to be known as his Violate Bastards.

The city-states could only watch from their walls as the King destroyed everything around them; each knowing they were on borrowed time. In the South, the excess children born to Barons from 'The Widowing' lead to the enaction of 'Plentiful Harvest'; a program to train the Baron's children as next generation of generals, strategists and tacticians in the defense of Voltaine.

Despite the Kings constant advances north, he was unable to successfully break through the Circiern Region to Rhyne, thanks to the equally unorthodox tactics of the Pennant Archae, who adapted to the King's terraform of the environment with surprising ease.

Turning his eyes south once again, the King sought the destruction of the Planae as he prepared for an extended campaign north. In Torrens, Theovocates Senator Regina Garaseehn initiated an edict for an emergency alliance as response to the Violate King's destructive entrance into the Southern Eridinea. This legislation was dismissed by the Theovocates.

Recognizing that time was against them, Regina committed heresy by sending messenger birds to each city-state, secretly coordinating a response the King would not anticipate. Despite the agreement of Rhyne and Voltaine, the Theovocates could not reach an agreement. Arguing for this coalition, Regina rose to heraldom after a maddening 16-hour debate with the Theovocates, her ascension passing the legislation unanimously in response.

Elected its first leader, Regina forcefully coordinated the distribution and collaboration of military forces, and any reliquaries and technologies the city-states had kept secret, until now. Soon Thesehts and Voltaionics from every Cycle were sent, alongside Heralds and armies to face the King in the Planae. Recognizing the dire situation, Regina created a Herald task-force called 'Nemesis', recruiting a number of Heralds both ally and enemy of the city-states. The goal of this task-force was to study and find a weakness in the King's strategy, enabling them to either kill him in combat, or destroy his terraformer.

This operation went into effect during the 'Defense of Torrens', as the King learnt of the coalition from the defeat of southern forces. While the details of the task-force have largely been kept secret, the defense of Torrens in known as the single bloodiest battle of the Violate War. Thousands died, and in the aftermath, all 11 members of Nemesis were either dead or missing in action. Nonetheless, they had achieved their goal; the King had experienced his first true defeat, and his terraformer, destroyed.

The King was then forced north, where construction of the siege ready city of Palisades was finalized. Between an alliance of Rhyne, Torrens Voltaine and the Pennant Archae, the Violate King's armies were defeated at the gates of Palisades and scattered, ending the Violate War in 2375 3G.c. The king and his bastards escaped, and while his bastards would later rise to prominence, the Violate King was never seen again.