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	- '''[[Prassel]]''' - The necromantic engineer whose mine-clearing task is the sole technical prerequisite for the Great Advance; the Advance's feasibility rests entirely on whether Prassel can complete the work with the insufficient corpses supplied - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.		* '''[[Prassel]]''' - The necromantic engineer whose mine-clearing task is the sole technical prerequisite for the Great Advance; the Advance's feasibility rests entirely on whether Prassel can complete the work with the insufficient corpses supplied - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.
	- '''[[Lor\|the Loruthi]]''' - The target of the offensive; their minefields are the specific obstacle the Advance must overcome, and their defensive line is the ground the Pal forces intend to break - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.		* '''[[Lor\|the Loruthi]]''' - The target of the offensive; their minefields are the specific obstacle the Advance must overcome, and their defensive line is the ground the Pal forces intend to break - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.

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The Great Advance is a large-scale planned offensive by the Pal forces against the Loruthi defensive lines, spoken of within the Pal command structure with such reverence that it is treated as a matter of legend before a single soldier crosses the wire. Its prominence in the strategic thinking of the Pal army makes it a defining operational ambition of the war in this theatre: the stroke that is expected to break the Loruthi position, and around which the daily labour of necromantic engineers, infantry commanders, and logistics officers is organised. In the single chapter in which it is laid out, the Advance is presented as imminent, set for the following dawn or morning, days after a failed or inconclusive prior assault on the same Loruthi positions.

What gives the Great Advance its particular shape as a military undertaking is the condition on which it rests: the mine-clearing work of the necromancer Prassel, whose task is to render the Loruthi minefields passable for the main body. Without that clearance the Advance cannot go in, and the clearance itself depends on a supply of corpses that is described as insufficient. The result is an operation whose legendary certainty in the abstract sits uneasily beside the material scarcity that could prevent it from launching at all. The arc of the Great Advance across the text is therefore one of suspended promise: named, planned, set for a specific hour, and yet left unresolved as to whether it will proceed on schedule or whether the shortage of dead will stall it.

== The Event ==
=== When & Where ===
The Great Advance is positioned as a dawn or morning offensive against the Loruthi lines, set for a day only a few days removed from a prior Pal assault on those same positions - House of Open Wounds, ch 2. It is described in the chapter as imminent, meaning the operational planning and the constraint of the mine-clearing task are resolved in the immediate lead-up to execution rather than in some distant strategic review. The geographical theatre is the Loruthi defensive line, though the text does not name a specific town or stretch of ground within it.

=== Who Was Involved ===
The offensive is a Pal operation aimed at the [[Lor|the Loruthi]]. The principal named agent of its feasibility is [[Prassel]], a Fellow-Inquirer whose necromantic mine-clearing work is the single technical prerequisite for the Advance to proceed - House of Open Wounds, ch 2. The wider Pal command structure treats the Advance as a matter of shared strategic significance, but no other individual commanders or units are named in the chapter's discussion of the plan.

=== What Happened ===
In the chapter, the Great Advance exists as a plan under discussion rather than an event in progress. It is characterised as a much-fabled offensive, spoken of with legendary weight among the Pal forces - ch 2. The operational condition is specified: Prassel must clear the Loruthi minefields using necromantic means so that the main body can advance across the cleared ground - ch 2. The temporal framing is tight: the Advance is set for dawn or morning, and the chapter's present sits only days after a prior assault on the Loruthi positions, implying the new offensive is a resumption or escalation of that same effort - ch 2. The material constraint is introduced in the same breath: the necromantic mine-clearing requires corpses, and the available supply is described as too few - ch 2. The chapter closes its treatment of the Advance at the point of laying out the plan and its condition; the text at this stage does not narrate the Advance launching, nor does it narrate it failing to launch.

=== Causes & Consequences ===
The Advance is a direct continuation of the Pal war against the Loruthi, following a prior assault on the same positions days earlier - ch 2. Its legendary status among the Pal forces suggests that no previous offensive in this theatre has achieved the breakthrough the Great Advance is intended to deliver. The consequence of the Advance, should it proceed, is implicitly the breaching of the Loruthi lines; the consequence of the corpse shortage, should it prove decisive, is a stall in the Pal timetable and the subordination of a fabled operation to the logistics of dead supply. At the point the plan is laid out, neither outcome is confirmed - ch 2.

== History ==
=== House of Open Wounds ===
The Great Advance is a much-fabled planned offensive against the [[Lor|Loruthi]] lines, held in such high strategic regard among the Pal forces that it carries the weight of legend before it has been launched - ch 2. Its execution is conditional upon necromantic support: specifically, the mine-clearing work of [[Prassel]], whose task is to render the Loruthi minefields passable so that the main body can advance - ch 2. In the chapter in which the plan is discussed, the Advance is described as imminent, set for dawn or morning on a day still only days removed from a prior assault on the Loruthi positions - ch 2. The constraint placed on Prassel is one of raw material: the necromantic mine-clearing requires corpses, and the supply is described as too few - ch 2. Whether the Advance ultimately proceeds on schedule, and whether Prassel can complete the clearance despite the shortage of dead, is left open at the point the plan is laid out - ch 2.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Prassel]]''' - The necromantic engineer whose mine-clearing task is the sole technical prerequisite for the Great Advance; the Advance's feasibility rests entirely on whether Prassel can complete the work with the insufficient corpses supplied - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.
- '''[[Lor|the Loruthi]]''' - The target of the offensive; their minefields are the specific obstacle the Advance must overcome, and their defensive line is the ground the Pal forces intend to break - House of Open Wounds, ch 2.

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