abstract
| - Days before the start of the Hundred Days' War, Hamel was attacked by bandits brandishing Liberlian weaponry. They initiated a village-wide massacre to murder every innocent soul in the village, among them Karin, Joshua's sister. The Empire's war hawks used this incident as an excuse to declare war on Liberl, initiating the bloody war ten years prior to the events of Trails in the Sky. When Liberl pushed the Erebonian invaders out of the country, the two sued for peace. Erebonia retracted its claims of Liberl instigating the war and executed anyone in the Empire involved in the tragedy. In fact, part of the terms of the peace treaty between the two countries includes not speaking about the truth behind the Tragedy of Hamel. The new story goes as Hamel being wiped out by a catastrophic landslide. Queen Alicia, who ruled Liberl at the time of the war, was forced to accept this condition for the sake of her people's security, as Liberl was in no position to blunt another invasion by Erebonia. This disgusted Loewe, telling her during Trails in the Sky FC that she "hardly qualifies to feel pity" for him.
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