The Scouring

The Scouring is the name given to the great war of humanity against the Manaketes, a thousand years before the events of Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi and eight hundred years before Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken. Before the war mankind and dragonkind lived in peace until humantity declared war on the dragons for a undisclosed reeason. In order to gain the upper hands against the numorous humans, the dragons requested the aid of the Divine Dragons, when they refused they captured the girl Idoun transformed her into the Dark Dragon, destroying her soul and giving her the ablity to spawn War Dragons. Around this time a series of elemental imbalances started to occur in the world and these imbalances were blamed on the dragons, although Yahn claims that it was actually the tremendous power of Divine Weapons wielded by the Eight Heroes which had caused it. Due to the fact that these imbalances forced the dragons to seal their power into Dragonstones, the war ended with the victory of humanity and the retreat of the dragons through the Dragon's Gate.