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The Undeath Terror was a conflict that raged inside the Regalian Empire in the year 291 AC, coinciding with the end of the Chrysant War. The Undeath Terror was not a conventional conflict in the way soldiers might have known it, rather it was a conflict that was Empire-wide and saw small skirmishes in localized areas all over. The Afflicted Undead were not commonly seen in the Regalian Empire, or the world widely speaking. For hundreds if not thousands of years, the condition of Undeath was unknown among Ailor, save for those of the Fornoss faith who knew of the Draugr. In the year 291 AC however, Undead appeared all over the Empire after a sudden outbreak of Undeath in the Imperial Palace which caused the deaths of all the Imperial Princes of the blood, and thus ended the male-line of House Ivrae de Sange. Undead marched from graveyards all over the Empire, causing mostly Knights and local militias to have to put them down or guard graveyards at night to keep watch. The conflict was over within a year, but it burst knowledge of the Undead into the public psyche and created several laws that still hold to this day, about the burial of the dead. The loss of the Imperial Princes, and the waves of assassinations by the Slizzar that occurred around the same time due to the end of the Chrysant War, saw the death of the broken Emperor Justinian II, causing the Imperial Sanction to pass the throne to House Kade instead. This event is as such not remembered for being particularly bloody, but radically changed the course of the Empire's politics for years to come, and made the people widely aware that the Undead existed, and that they were a serious threat. Many arcane scholars nowadays theorize this was a plot by the Malefica from the beyond, but because the Malefica works in centuries, the true motivation for the events or whether they succeeded remains unknown.