The Shattering

pretty sure this was meant to be the name given to the event at the end of the first war when Arai had her soul gem destroyed and the riders found out she couldnt be killed that way. whatever

(it was)

There's a little bit of a confusion within some of the material, I think going forward you should distinguish that the FIRST WAR is the war against Arai and the SECOND WAR is the war against the Empire. I think you'd been calling the war against the Empire the "First War" sometimes and that can be extremely confusing.