Only the fools up the chain of command believed the yaks to the northeast would submit to intimidation and remove themselves from Talonian lands of their own accord. They refused and forced the claw of the king to sweep them aside. There was no yielding or calls for peace after the fighting broke out. Another culture swept under the rug of a ruthless empire only to be survived by its young who were spared by the pleas of those who took everything else from them.