Cyprien the Great

Axiom basin  framed by the Esteran highlands and Seranitat mountains form a grassland continuum with the Zhelov plains beyond the Nixian highlands and the Valdachio coast plains. A large expanse that the Tyreal cycles have made for eons in ages past the homeland of migratory peoples. This includes the Éphelins peoples, a migratory people that rules the many pastoral villages of the vast grassland continuum from the mid 5th millennium to late 6900's. The Éphelins were a nomadic loose confederation numbering a few dozen or so tribes that travelled as far as the Vechio and Vega vlley and the scavic peninsula. The tribes periodically raided the empires and kingdoms that hugged the coats of the Medio, Cheltic and Rekan seas.

Cyprien was the son of King Eonois, leader of the mythical Roncins tribe. Cyprien, since childhood, had a deep rivalry with his older brother Julire; their rivalry began before their birth with the deep rivalry of their mothers, who competed for King Eonois's favour and influence within their tribe. They both grew up viewing each other as rivals.

After the death of Eonois, his older brother assumed control of the tribe, with Cyprien and his other brothers scattering before they were murdered. Cyprien and his brothers sought out their individual supporters, and some of his brothers attempted to overthrow Julire with no success. Cyprien, like a handful of his other brothers, moved beyond the Axiom basin, gathering their strength, horses and subject villages in the Zhelov valley. Cyprien founded the Sépultains tribe.

In the decade of the 6780's, Cyprien commenced the  great Sépultains migration, a migration that caused the warming climate of the Renascentia Era, which in this decade caused draught and wild fires of extensive magnitude in the Zhelov plains and the Axiom basin The migration was the cause the Auresian Atticus strife, a decade of "barbarian" Pressure from the south, a period experienced by most nations bordering central Anaria Major. Cypriens tribe disregarded the authority of the Auresian empire and entered the Lodis plains, bitterly clashing with it. This caused great strife in the empire and the destruction and sacking of the ancient cities of Aureapolis and Marelum.

Cyprien enriched himself as their tribes caused havoc with the empire, but nevertheless, the Auresian empire pushed them northwards and out of their borders at a great cost. Emperor Atticus negotiated at Pelagium, paying Cyprien ten thousand golden Solidus for their departure from Imperial territory. The tribe moved to the Los peninsula on the western fringes of the Hattaro strait and paid the city-states of Ozeidond and Zagrano to transport them across the Hattaro.

Cyprien moved across the Hattaro after consulting the oracles at Travero, Cyprien spent the night at the hollows of the oracles after the sacking of the city, Seeking the wisdom of the Fidomnes cult. The gods gave him a vision of a verdant and unspilt land beyond the seas, a land of blooms of flowers, valleys and bountiful forests. Prefati and Manciano were conquered soon after they arrived in Thulthannia.

Cyprien settled on Poivul Bay and established his capital of "Dunciel" in the style of the Dragar cities. This small settlement grew as the Thulthannian tribes were subjugated and sent tributes to it. Here, the tributes became craftsmen, artisans, and workers that strengthened Cyprien's forces and control over the region. Cyprien established a large empire covering much of the plains south of the Westdunn mountains, an empire ruled by horse lords that much whose forebearers controlled large swathes of land and their villages. But unlike their forefathers, the counsellors settled at strategic villages and established hereditary realms, constructing fortifications and a nobility to administrate the realm.

Cyprien named his empire Rosaire, after the red blooms of roses he encountered after crossing the Hattaro. This legitimised the providence of his dream and the rule of his tribe. His tribe's name survived as the Sépultain dynasty. All of Cyprien's descendants would be known as of the Sépultain dynasty.