Faron Province (Total War)

Faron Province was an administrative zone of Akkala and the Kingdom of Hyrule encompassing the western Kokiri Forest, bordered by the Kano River to the east and Faron Woods to the south. Ruled by House Rhoam and its vassals, it collapsed due to geopolitical instability and the outbreak of a plague during the Century of Decline. The collapse of Faron Province would lead to the rise of the Kokiri Bandits and their subsequent destruction by the Forest Alliance, and the formation of the Kokiri.

Geography
Faron Province covered all Akkalan and later Hylian holdings in the Kokiri Forest, which included all lands west and north of the Kano River. These included the holds of House Rhoam and its vassals, which included the Forest Temple and the now-ruined fortresses at Kanokiri and Bando Grove.

Ancient Age
In 3003 BG, Sulkaris led the Gohma on a rampage across Hyrule, targeting the Huskus Imperium in the Kokiri Forest. The Huskus were devastated, with many of their cities destroyed and their population slaughtered, and after Sulkaris was slain by Rhoaban Gustaf in 3000 BG, they withdrew to their hidden capital of Palagard's Sanctuary, becoming violently isolationist. The expanding Akkalans would quickly settle the woods, building castles and manors and taming the forest. Under King Gustaf's new Akkalan Kingdom, House Rhoam was granted the title of Duke over Faron Province.

Seven years later, the Ikanian territory of Zonai in the Faron Woods collapsed with the Kingdom of Ikana, leaving the entire western Kokiri Forest largely uninhabited. For millennia the Hylians would maintain a tenuous peace with the Huskus and Deku Trees.

Century of Decline
In the century before the Rise of Ganon, the Kingdom of Hyrule began to suffer from internal strife and collapse, as the Clans of the Sheikah Cadre waged a shadow war and a series of incompetent monarchs held the throne. The increasingly rickety position of House Rhoam and its vassals in the Forest collapsed with the outbreak of a plague that killed many Hylians and forced them to abandon their manors and castles. In the anarchy of Rhoam rule, surviving Hylians banded together as the Kokiri Bandits, desecrating the Forest. In retaliation, Kasuto formed the Forest Alliance, which massacred the Bandits except for a single boy, the son of their blacksmith.