The first major battle wasn't fought in space or time — it was fought through them. The Abyssal Coalition surrounded the Concordance stronghold from every conceivable dimension, creating a state of quantum entrapment. Reality fragmented. Inside the citadel, millennia passed in what seemed like days to outside observers. Outside, seconds stretched into subjective eternities for the besiegers.
"I was there when the Void Dancers breached the outermost reality shell. The world turned inside out. Gravity inverted. Blood flowed upward from wounds. I saw soldiers aging backward as chronology shattered — gray-haired veterans becoming teenagers, then children, then nothing at all as they reverse-aged out of existence."
The siege finally broke when an entity known only as "The Architect" revealed a hidden pathway through the underlying substrate of reality, allowing Concordance reinforcements to attack the besiegers from within their own formations — an ontological ambush that defied conventional physics.