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To amass wealth and capture livestock, both of which were difficult to obtain on the islands due to their rocky and non-arable nature, the Houses of Ardmore would conduct land raids against Urcea and Calinthia. The former however had a significant military presence and was drastically less likely to be raided as the nobility and warriors of the Ardmori Isles saw it as a dangerous adventure from which they were unlikely to return. One of Ardmore's first great heroes, Pádraig MacDowell, a low noble of House Kilkken, was killed and his half dozen ships razed on the Urcean coast in 877, which was considered to be one of the last raids against the Urcean coastline. Raids in Calinthia were usually undertaken by six to ten longships, each carrying approximately forty warriors. The raids usually avoided larger urban centres and fortifications, instead focusing on small religious places of worship and villages, where the raiders could successfully pillage and return to their ships unchallenged. The practice of mainland raiding gradually disappeared by the late 900s, as infighting amongst Ardmori houses had required warriors to defend their homes on the Isles. | To amass wealth and capture livestock, both of which were difficult to obtain on the islands due to their rocky and non-arable nature, the Houses of Ardmore would conduct land raids against Urcea and Calinthia. The former however had a significant military presence and was drastically less likely to be raided as the nobility and warriors of the Ardmori Isles saw it as a dangerous adventure from which they were unlikely to return. One of Ardmore's first great heroes, Pádraig MacDowell, a low noble of House Kilkken, was killed and his half dozen ships razed on the Urcean coast in 877, which was considered to be one of the last raids against the Urcean coastline. Raids in Calinthia were usually undertaken by six to ten longships, each carrying approximately forty warriors. The raids usually avoided larger urban centres and fortifications, instead focusing on small religious places of worship and villages, where the raiders could successfully pillage and return to their ships unchallenged. The practice of mainland raiding gradually disappeared by the late 900s, as infighting amongst Ardmori houses had required warriors to defend their homes on the Isles. | ||
It was as the Age of Raiders gradually gave way to increasing levels of border skirmishes and the creation of an established landed gentry and the Occidental and Levantine practice of knighthoods spilled into the Ardmori Isles and mixed with the existing local culture. | |||
=== North Island War === | |||
[[File:North Island War Map.png|thumb|A map of the battles and sieges of the North Island War (933-981). ]] | |||
The first major outbreak of conflict occurred as the North Island War, lasting from 933-981. | |||
Duchy of Rosmore v. County of Kilinmuir + County of Wissel support County of K | Duchy of Rosmore v. County of Kilinmuir + County of Wissel support County of K | ||
933-981 | 933-981 | ||