Oh, its a mess. Especially this war, for some reason. You see, those kinds of wars are based on a special ritual. The war itself is supposed to provide fuel to summon the artifact in the first place.

[He makes a flippant gesture.]

But this? Its a joke of a war. Its a bunch of mages who wanted to copy the ritual for themselves. The problem is...its extremely faulty. It already has mistakes baked in on the inside. So whatever they're thinking they're doing...I think that they're just stoking the fire that will eventually burn themselves up, and take the rest of us with them.