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King Griffith that Kunin was ruling over Gwyneth again.

The first time he seized the throne of Gwyneth,

he had found himself immediately fighting the combined armies of both Pow and surprisingly Gwyneth and he lost.

So this time Griffith was making sure to cross every T and dot every I before he officially took the throne.

So, after he and his army of Irishmen, Danes, and disaffected Welshmen were done killing people into Highbarth,

Griffith Ap Kunen ravaged southern Gwinneth.

Then he ravaged much of Powys,

before going back and pacifying the rest of Gwyneth, which was probably just a euphemism for even more killing.

And only after all of that was done, did Griffith entrench himself in Northern Wales as the King of Gwyneth.

And fair play to Griffith, despite his brutal tactics, he wasn't making the same mistake twice here.

Instead, he was making a completely new mistake.

By preemptively attacking and killing any potential Welsh rebels, he was heading off the possibility

of facing a well-organized Welsh rebel army.

But he was also guaranteeing that his new kingdom was in tatters, and nearly everyone left alive

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