Crusades

While most campaigns can be labelled "crusades", actual crusades were when warriors set off into foreign lands for reasons other than conquest, such as religious ones, taking back specific landmarks, and acquiring artefacts. By the time players began in A Hero's Tale, few crusades had been undertaken in the last five hundred years, especially by the human nations. However, small groups of a few hundred might set out now and again, as religious orders, groups of spellcasters, nobles and upperclass merchants wished for their goals to be met abroad. One issue with crusades was that they had to be cultivated with religious fervor, and most nations either had too many religions to successfully unify beneath one religiously motivated cause, or the nations were unified under a single or small set of beliefs but were already waging wars and stuff as per their national interests and duty. So very few crusades actually happened. Though, crusades used to be extremely common when the gods still tread the earth. A prime example was the Reich of the Holy Trinity, which had a massive following in the old days. Such ancient events still had an affect in A Hero's Tale and the Great War, wherein religious and speciest tensions still existed in small amounts if nothing else.