However, the last time such an occurrence had taken place was when King Gryphus III’s ancestor, Cyphus II in Northern Griffonia, then known as the Kingdom of Borinthia, invaded the Republic on the justifiable grounds of the Toll of Ferth extorting his daughter’s claw in marriage with some minor burgher house in order to pay back his Kingdom’s debts. The war went well for the griffons before the Central Toll started using the crisis to devalue key currencies, destabilising the economies of Equestria and Henosis and the nearby confederation of minotaurs that have since become a part of the republic. The princesses, reluctantly, declared war on the northern griffons to force Cyphus out of the Republic, which in turn brought the rest of the High Kingdom into the war to prevent pony encroachment.