'Not everything is written in your books, Doctor!'
However, the saga is oft told by wizened old story-tellers, gathered around fires in remote rural back-waters of ancient lands : each passing down the sad tale as told them by their fathers, and their fathers fathers, and their fathers, fathers fathers, yeah unto many generations past.
It is said, though disputed by some who follow the revisionist oral tradition of Eastern Much Wallop-under-Marsh, the origins of the War of Daisy's Bra can be traced to a slightly rumbustious wedding feast which, in the noble traditions of those times, descended into a full-on battle between the opposing suitors for the brides hand. Quite how daisy and her bra are involved is lost in the mists of rancour and disagreement, but it is generally considered that this was the initial spark which led to the sorry conflagration under discussion.
Naturally, the complicated web of familial bonds, fealty and some less arcane nuances of fuedal law soon resulted in the aforementioned three kingdoms being at war with each other in an unmitigated triangle of disaster.
next week : Birth of Chaos : the first year of conflict.