Editing Mee-Dis War (section)

== Inciting incident ==
Shortly after the appointment of the first five Lords, one of them, [[Kedri (Lord)|Kedri]], put forward a proposal to increase the degree to which outsiders could be involved and integrated into D'ni society. The question was highly divisive, with the 360-member [[Guild Council]] approving the proposal by only a two vote majority. Because of the closeness of the result, however, the Lords themselves were also required to vote. Kedri was joined by one other Lord, while the other three voted against it, resulting in Kedri’s measure being defeated by a single vote.

Kedri was outraged by the narrow reversal, as were many of his supporters on the Council. The affair led many to question the validity of the new government, and some even suggested that the monarchy be restored. In the aftermath, Kedri swore to his peers that they would regret their decision.

After Kerath's death in [[6985 DE]], the D'ni people found themselves rudderless in a way that they had not been since the self-entombment of King [[Ahlsendar]] in [[1501 DE]]. Their culture and religion quickly lost much of their cohesion, and tensions from the still-recent "betrayal" of Lord Kedri's measure for outsider inclusion finally boiled over completely.