The Extirpation

The Extirpation War was the war which divided Belron (referred to as Old Belron) into what is now Belron and Trolk. It last 36 years, and ended when the Belronian Princess Havah ended it by becoming a hostage. To this day, both nations disagree on her role and whether or not she was truely a hostage, or if she was involved in a secret ploy to gain the Trolk their freedom.

History of Conflict
700 years before the book, King Roern of Belron was crowned. He immediately increased hardships on the southern citizens of Old Belron, located in what is now Trolk, south of the Salt River.

There was already a foundation of prejudice between the two regions of people. The southern region of Belron was hot and full of vast, dry landscapes and desert, which the people of the fertile north thought the lowly and dirty. The vast desert of Trolk housed several large, nomadic tribes, which the northern Belronians thought savage and did not understand why the others in the southern reigion did not push them out.

In turn, the southern people always viewed the north as oppressive. They viewed the north's organization of cantons as hostile, as the south was not included in the process. They viewed the north nobility as subservient to the king and bureaucratic.

The four north regions of what is now Trolk sent an envoy to Hale, the capital city of Old Belron.

Crowning of King Roern and Beginning of War
Immediately after his Corination, King Roern further entrenched the