BOZBAR
Although the names of the original provinces are long since lost to
us, several pre-Flathead maps have survived that show the original
provincial boundaries. For the sake of convenience, the province of
Bozbar is referred to by the name of its chief city. When Entharion the
Wise united the city-states to form the nation of Quendor, Bozbar was
one of seven-and-a-half provinces to enter the union (the others being
Galepath, Mareilon, Quendor, Znurg, Vriminax, Frobozz, and Borphee).
During
the Zucchini blights of the mid-fifth century, the zucchini crop in
both Bozbar and Vriminax were ruined for four seasons (from 460 to
463). By 474, the wars as a result of these Zucchinis, as well as the
population losses inflicted by the ongoing famine caused Bozbar to
suffer the longest throughout the entire affair. City and provincial
records record a population drop of an astounding 70% in just under ten
year. This pathetic state of
affairs was in clear evidence throughout the entire duration of the
conference at Znurg which freed the nations from this conflict.
At
the time of Zilbo III's removal from power in 660 GUE, the provinces
were divided along rather arbitrary and outdated boundary lines that
had not been altered since the time of Entharion. In that same year,
Pseudo-Duncanthrax raised a
tremendous army to wage a systematic conquest of the neighboring
kingdoms. He moved swiftly and brutally against the southern
half of Borphee and put an end to the tottering and defenseless dynasty
of Mauldwood. Finally accomplishing the merger of the two halves,
Pseudo-Duncanthrax called the resulting territory Greater Borphee
Province. This move began a trend; one by one, the neighboring
principalities of Miznia, Gurth, and Mithicus were brought under
Quendoran sway and given new provincial administrations. With the
completion of the conquest of the Westlands, Duncanthrax was faced with
the peculiar problem of absorbing lands several times the size of his
original kingdom. Clearly it made little sense to turn each conquered
land into an individual province, since any one of the new territories
would be much larger than most of the original provinces combined. At
this point, realizing that the original seven provinces were now too
small to be effective in the new system, one of his many administrative
reforms was merging Galepath, Mareilon, Quendor, Znurg, Vriminax, Bozbar, and
Frobozz all into the Province of Frobozz, thus bringing to completion
the creation of the provincial system as we know it: Frobozz, Greater
Borphee, Miznia, Gurth, and Mithicus.
Although
the confederacy of the provincial system dissolved at the fall of the
Empire in 883 and many of the city-states reverted back to their former
independence as in the days prior to Entharion, it is unknown what
became of Bozbar. No references
are made of this province at either the Conference of Quendor nor any
other moment in history to follow. It may be possible that the city-states Vriminax and Quendor absorbed Bozbar into their territories when they occupied the western half of the former Frobozz Province in 884.
TRIVIA: Bozbar was the home province of Bozbo Throckrod II.