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At the climax of the final battle however, the Peacock and his followers broke away from the main host of the Key's forces and rushed through the gaping hole of the Chitinous Door into the Upper Mansus just before the Lower House collapsed. With the Doors destroyed, the Hours of Order ceased to consider the Upstart a threat to their war effort. With their own kingdoms in the Upper House defended by scores of their loyal followers, they failed to see how the Peacock could possibly threaten them on his own. The Upstart retreated into the highest rooms of the Upper House to establish [[The Revel Unending]], and largely ceased to be an issue for the remainder of the war.
The war was bloody and costly, with both inheritors of the Great Serpent determined to see their counterpart slain. It was only when in a stroke of terrible, twisted irony, the final inhabitant of the settlement over which the two Hours initially began to fight did they return to their senses and realize the horrible damage they were inflicting on the world. They turned to their comrades and bade them put down their arms, for the war was over. The Ministers convened conflict would be immortalized in Shesha once morehistory as [[The War of the Doors]], and an uneasy peace was signed between named both for the two sides once more: never again would political faction as well as the Hours meet each other priceless Doors lost in open warfarethe fighting.
The Hours turned once more to repairing the damage done by their fighting, the impact of their own loss of control made even more severe by the knowledge it was ''The House'' they were rebuilding instead of some lesser History. The damage wrought by the war The Ministers convened in Shesha once more, and an uneasy peace was signed between the two sides once more: never again would the Hours meet each other in open warfare. But without the Great Serpent to enforce such an agreement, the Hours feared that there would be no real way to ensure such an agreement was honored. Both sides feared that as soon as the other acquired the upper hand, they would use their advantage to destroy the other, kicking off an uneasy peace that would devolve into an arms race, both sides mainly using the lull in fighting not to repair the House but to prepare for what they saw was an inevitable return to the fighting.
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