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The Occult War was a conflict that took place on Antagarich, and is shown in Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor.
Four adventurers competed in Lord Markham's scavenger hunt, eventually winning the deed to Castle Harmondale and its surrounding lands (thus becoming the Lords of Harmondale). The land was located in the Contested Lands between AvLee and Erathia, and each side wanted to secure the party's aid in the conflict between them, while the arbiter Judge Grey tried to find a peaceful solution. A few months after the conflict began, Judge Grey passed away, and the heroes were asked to choose who should replace him: Judge Fairweather, representative of Bracada, or Judge Sleen, representative of Deyja.
The party chose Fairweather, who managed to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. The heroes were summoned to meet Gavin Magnus, King of Bracada, and his advisors - Resurrectra, Sir Caneghem, Robert the Wise, and Crag Hack, members of the Terran ultimate adventurers. The Terran adventurers had encountered problems while following Corak and Sheltem and crashed on Enroth. Some of them (led by Kastore) wanted to revive Enroth's Heavenly Forge, creating advanced weapons and using them to take over the world, while the others (led by Resurrectra) wanted to use a gate created by the Ancients to reconnect to the Web of Worlds and end the Silence. The group argued and eventually split up, with Resurrectra's forces ending up as advisors to Gavin Magnus and Kastore's forces becoming advisors to Archibald Ironfist in Deyja.
Archibald later contacted the Lords of Harmondale, telling them that Kastore had rebelled against him and taken control of Deyja. Driven by guilt and fear, Archibald wanted to lift the death sentence that Queen Catherine had placed on him, so he asked the heroes to enter Colony Zod, the kreegan base, and rescue his brother Roland. By renouncing his claim to the throne of Enroth, Archibald convinced Roland and Catherine to lift his death sentence.
Resurrectra wanted the the Lords of Harmondale to acquire the Oscillation Overthruster to power the Ancients' gate, while Kastore wanted it to power the Heavenly Forge. The Lords of Harmondale aided Resurrectra and her friends in defeating the other Terran ultimate adventurers, powering the gate and traveling to Webstation Beta-5. The two parties were now able to travel anywhere they wished along the Web.
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Originally, the Lords of Harmondale were canonically supposed to aid Kastore, leading to the introduction of the Forge faction in Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade. Due to fan backlash when the idea was presented, the faction was scrapped, and the ending where they aided Resurrectra became canonical.