Kindred Wars

First Kindred War
Pelaxian galleon fighting Kiravian and Caphirian warships
Date 1602–1663 Location Kindred Sea, Taínean Sea, Natiserve Bay Result Stalemate, Treaty of Albalitor Pelaxian Civil War
Belligerents
Kingdom of Pelaxia	Caphiria	Kiravia
Commanders and leaders
Pedro de Silva António Teles Nino Botello Matias de Albuquerque Martin de Castro	TBD	TBD

The First Kindred War was an armed conflict involving Kiravian] forces, in the form of the COMPANY NAME and the Caphiria, against the Pelaxian Empire. Beginning in 1602, the conflict primarily involved the Kiravian companies invading Pelaxian colonies in the Kindred Islands known as “Las Agapornis”, Takatta Loa, and the Pelaxian mainland. The war can be thought of as an extension of the Pelaxian expansion over the Loa archipelago at the time. However, the conflict had little to do with the war in Loa and served mainly as a way for Kiravia to gain an overseas empire and control trade at the cost of the Pelaxians. Caphirian forces also assisted the Kiravian at certain points in the war (though in later decades, Kiravian and Caphirian would become fierce rivals). Because of the commodity at the center of the conflict, this war would be nicknamed the Spice War.

The outcome was that Pelaxial successfully repelled Kiravian attempts to secure the small Pelaxian Agapornis while the Kiravians were the victors in the Krasoa Islands. Caphirian ambitions also greatly benefited from the long-standing war between their two main rivals in West Sarpedon.

Pelaxian resentment at Caphiria, which was perceived as having prioritized its own colonies and neglected to form a Pan-Sarpedonian alliance against Levantine assertion, was a major contributing factor to the Pelaxian civil war and the future of Pelaxian foreign policy.