Approximately two centuries ago, Klor conducted a systematic campaign of extermination through the southern Eronia Range, eliminating the peoples who had held those mountain passes and opening Tarkhon's southern frontier to expansion. The campaign lasted seven years. No population was left to contest the territory afterward.
Tarkhon's imperial histories call this the Pacification of the Eronia Range. Klor's statue stands in Tarkhetan's central square. The empire considers him its greatest military hero—the man who secured the southern border and removed a permanent threat.
The descendants of those he killed—scattered across neighboring lands, stripped of homeland and continuity—remember the same events with different words. They have not forgotten. Neither have several regional powers that gave shelter to survivors, who carry grievances that compound with each generation.
Klor died of old age in imperial honors. The southern border he cleared Tarkhon now holds without cost. The dispersed survivors and their descendants carry a grievance the empire has never had to face—yet.