From 1618 to 1648, Europe was at war. What started as a Holy War to unmake the growing Protestant Reformation quickly escalated into endless rounds of political maneuvering by Kings and Emperors to undercut their rivals, endlessly betraying one another while the Germanies burned. This was the conflict that made armored knights obsolete by the introduction of firearms and this is the war that history books skip, as this is not a story of heroes and valor, but of compounding atrocity. This was the war that killed the Medieval World and birthed the Modern.