Alent's Council of Mages and the Grand Alliance tried to solve the conflict peacefully at first, but growing tensions between the various groups and ethnicities eventually escalated into a full-blown riot as both the Sarquil and the Threshold demons lashed out not only against each other but also against Alent who they felt had wronged them. What most of the groups didn't know was that the rioters were manipulated by Lust and other agents of the Eastern Horde and the Northern Horde who wanted to destabilize and weaken the city-state from within for the hordes' eventual assault.