Different sources give diverging accounts on some details, but agree that the war ended with Ngāti Tūwharetoa in control of the whole eastern shore of Taupō.

After years of conflict Tūwharetoa and his ally Tūtewero son of Maruka had established control of a region encompassing Ōtamarākau, the Awa-o-te-atua (Tarawera River), and Kawerau.

[3] Hatupere, leader of the Marangaranga or Maruiwi people, decided to attack Tūtewero, but was handily defeated by him and fled to Te Whaiti and the Kaweka Range.

[4][5] Maruiwi and Pa-kaumoana took the dead to Purotu on the Mohaka River, where they were piled up in an oven and cooked, leading to the place names Whā-tihi ('pile up') and Umu-ariki ('oven of chieftains').

[4] Te Hata reports that the defeat at Kaka-tarae was avenged as a result of the makutu or whakanania ritual, in which an enemy warrior was captured, his heart was offered to the atua, and then the tohunga sang a karakia into a hole in the ground while naked.

Then they travelled north along the coast, past Maniaheke and Kowhaiataku to Lake Rotongaio, where they sounded their pū kaea trumpet to announce their presence to the Ngāti Kurapoto.

[1] According to Te Hata, the force was led by Rākei-poho and Taringa and although they besieged Tara-o-te-Marama, they were unable to take it, so they made peace and offered a sacrifice of seventy dogs as compensation for eating Hine-kaharoa's fern root, thereby giving rise to the name Umu-kuri ('dogs' oven').

[5] According to Te Hata, the surviving Ngāti Kurapoto remained in northeastern Taupō and intermarried with the Tūwharetoa settlers, gradually being subsumed into them.

[7] They fought a battle at Kanihinuhi, at which one rangatira was killed, and another, Kurawaha, was captured (He survived because Rereao's daughter, Ata-iwi-kura, interceded on his behalf and married him).

[7] Rereao continued to One-mara-rangi and found that the Ngāti Hotu had gathered in a fortress at Kakapakia, which he attacked, killing two hundred men, including the rangatira Tipapa-kereru.

[10] The Ngāti Hotu remnant were left with Motiti in the rough territory of the Kaimanawa Range south of Taupō as their main centre and nursed a grievance against Tūwharetoa for the losses that they had suffered.

When Hineuru’s brothers, Taumaihi, Puteketeke, and Rorotaka came to visit Motiti, Paepaetehe invited them in and pretended to prepare a feast, by placing feathers in their oven so that it would smell as if they were cooking birds, while really planning to massacre the visitors.