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The Tundra Wars were a series of military campaigns waged from 1690-1712 by the Kingdom of [[Faneria|Fhainnlannachaeran]] against the feudal polities of Reothadt and [[Lyukquar]]. While technically separate campaigns, the 1698 invasion of Lyukquar resulted from Lyukqui support for local lords and rebels within Haibne after its annexation in 1691.

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Haibnelann and Lyukquar were of secondary importance during the Sutharine Succession Crisis and First Kin War that immediately followed them, and are generally considered to have weakened the Vicariates of Connsmonan and Gleathan significantly, damaging key supporters of the Suthar-Màrtainn family and creating an opportunity for the Barh-Màrtainns to stake a serious claim to the throne. The long war also petered out into a guerilla war, and while the locals were pacified within a generation, continued minor uprisings and rebel activity created a drain on Royal resources and busied those same allies with supporting the new Vicariate in Haibne. Lyukquar remained a fragmented state under martial law well into the 1700s, and remained an economically backwards part of the country until the mid-1850s, after which it was finally elevated to a set of undersized Vicariates under weak leaders. The human cost of the campaign is estimated to be anywhere from 200,00 to half a million lives, as the wars caused food shortages and peasant flight as well as decapitating much of the local leadership. The northern Kilikas coast lagged behind the Vandarch Basin significantly in education, development, and population relative to other parts of Faneria long after the Wars, and became a major recipient of development programs under the Republic.