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While the Trinterians were able to take risky military maneuvers and trade casualties man for man - sapping the enemy's manpower - the Zorakians under Kaosen could not. Although Kaosen was able to capture a few cities and trading ports, he was never able to march his galleys to Loren-by-the-Sea where the Trinterian seat of power rested out of fear of wasting his limited numbers of galleys in fruitless charges much to his own frustration.
While the Trinterians were busy gathering a force of four hundred new galleys laid down and eighty thousand siinarai in eight Jadas backed by nearly a hundred thousand auxiliaries which saw the now three times defeated legions growing to twice the size of their adversary, Kaosen's victorious army settled into their winter quarters in Samhail along the coast of High Trinteria and and scrounged for food and equipment while his pleas of support fell on deaf aristocrat Zorakian ears. With the odds in her favor, Warmaster Gersi Elmear swept across the coast and retook the cities which fell to Kaosen in his past campaigns, sapping away her foe's manpower as the cities came back to Trinterian Commonwealth hands - their Governors either dismissed or beheaded at her order. On the other hand, rather than engage in direct battle with the Trinterian forces, Kaosen plotted his retreat back to Zorak with the bulk of his forces whilst leaving a small contingent behind in an attempt to mask his movement from his advancing foes. However, in a stroke of luck for the Trinterian, a copy of a general movement order containing invaluable information was found hidden inside an inconspicuous sack by Siinarai of Saint Basal's 19th Jadas in a Zorakian scout camp some thirty miles south of Zysen which fell into Trinterian hands some five days prior by a force of three Jadas under Battlemaster Jatan Nased. Although the date on the letter were four days old, it was passed along to Warmaster Gersi Elmear who cautiously plotted a sizable force of
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A letter in which detailed the Trinterian demands for peace was given to the Zorakians by a messenger who was accepted in good faith by Kaosen War-Bird. In said letter, the Trinterians demanded the reduction of Zorakian Republic's territorial extent to just their capital of Abtawe - effectively reducing them to a city-state - as well as an indemnity of 8,000 silver talents. Though many senior Zorakian nobles had expressed strong desire to reject the treaty and continue waging war with whatever remaining resources the Republic still had at their disposal, Kaosen War-Bird was a vocal supporter as he saw it as a way to put a permanent to the end of war the cost of which in blood he considered to be "outrageous" in his later writings. Despite Kaosen's best attempt at avoiding bloodshed, the Zorakian senate unanimously chose to reject the call for surrender out of the false hope that they could yet rally a force large enough to at least push the Trinterian legions out of the island and achieve, at least, a white peace - a decision that Kaosen latter called a "grevious mistake".
Kaosen War-Bird's hands were forced as he was threatened execution had he reject his orders. For his final campaign, Zorak managed to rally some 80,000 soldiers in comparison to the Trinterian's 70,000 in fourteen Jadas who were gathered in and around the city of Zylau.
The campaign ended in disaster for the Zorakians at the battle of Kunentas when Warmaster Gersi Elmear personally lead an outnumbered force of 40,000 in eight of the Jadas at her disposal to victory against a demoralized, poorly-equipped Zorakian force of 60,000 with few losses. The final battle of the war occurred on the spring of 506 AU when the Trinterians launched their final assault at the Zorakian capital of Abtawe after having besieged it for over four months as they braced themselves for winter. The battle saw the city systematically destroyed as many of its inhabitants slained; the 40,000 who yet remained were sold into slavery. Though other Zorakian nobles had their lands stripped as they were either slain, or made slaves, Kaosen War-Bird was spared by Warmaster Gersi Elmear as he was sent into exile to the island of Zufan Supreme where he remained till his death in 543. The formerly Zorakian territories became the new gairn of Zorak as a new Trinterian city was built on the ruins of Abtawe.
=== Second Era of The Commonwealth ===
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