First Great Wizarding War — Full Canon
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About
| Field | Information |
|---|---|
| Name | First Great Wizarding War |
| Date | Founder era, before 1800; exact years TBC |
| Cause | Benedict Blight’s cursed-magic schism |
| Principal combatants | Blight against the other founders and early mage society |
| Major casualty | Kyoko Kaedehara |
| Outcome | Reinhardt defeats Blight’s body; Blight persists in Ley-Line limbo |
The First Great Wizarding War is the founder-era conflict that follows the discovery of cursed magic and fractures the original partnership behind Arcaneum.
Its casualties, resolution and long-term consequences belong to the full article.
Conflict
Schism
Blight begins as the founders’ great healer. After discovering cursed magic, he argues that a power independent of the Ley Lines allows true free will. Reinhardt and Kyoko reject adoption; Vetus’s early curiosity ends as the research escalates.
Blight demonstrates the mastered system in Arcaneum’s Root Chamber and concludes that his role is no longer to heal within the founders’ order. The ideological break becomes war.
Death And Limbo
Blight kills Kyoko. Reinhardt eventually defeats him, but Blight has saturated his soul with cursed magic. The Ley Lines draw it in and reject it at the same time under the Law of Purity. He remains conscious, unprocessed and without a body.
The surviving institutions ban cursed magic and preserve the four house names despite the betrayal.
History And Development
Earliest of the three named Wizarding Wars; exact start, duration and battlefield chronology remain TBC.
Role And Significance
The war establishes the series’ central political question: whether natural limitation is oppression, and who pays when one person claims freedom from an ecological system.
Connections
| Subject | Connection |
|---|---|
| The Founding Four | Group broken by the war. |
| Benedict Blight | Instigator and Lord Of Curses. |
| Reinhardt Rosenberg | Founder who defeats Blight’s body. |
| Kyoko Kaedehara | Founder killed by Blight. |
| Cursed Magic | Discipline at the centre of the schism. |
| Root Chamber | Site of Blight’s decisive demonstration. |
Chronology
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Before 1800 | Blight breaks with the founders, kills Kyoko and is defeated by Reinhardt. |
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Canon Boundaries
- Exact calendar years, factions beyond the founders, casualties and political settlement remain TBC.
