Some time after the Great Carpet Crash of 76, Al Kharid fell into war with the capital of the desert Menaphos. Political tensions had risen to a level where a war declaration was made and the cities's armies faced each other. Knowing Al Kharid would be crushed by the power of the Menaphos, the young emir managed to diplomatically establish a peace treaty, albeit a shaky one, with the pharaoh.