Cyril and his descendants ruled Tympania for eighty-two years, during which the arts and sciences flourished, the worship of Love and Reason was codified into a coherent religion, and many of the social structures which still define Tympanian life were established. Although it was hardly a peaceful era, it saw the birth of a truly Tympanian cultural identity and is now remembered as the Golden Age of Tympania.
Tympania was ruled by an uneasy diumvirate of the King, who sat at Tyrrie, and the Guardian of Tyr, the King's military leader and defender of the faith of Tyr, who resided at Evasendia. Titus served as the first Guardian of Tyr.
Each of Tympania's provinces had its own council, which was also represented on the High Council at Tyrrie. Furthermore, the King was advised by four special councils—the Council of Plows, which dealt with economic matters; the Council of Swords, composed of military leaders; the Council of Staves, formed of experts on legislative and administrative matters; and the Council of Books, which dealt with religion, science, and magic—and the leaders of these four councils served as yet another body, the High Advisors to the King. The Councils of Swords and Books sat at Evasendia, while those of Plows and Staves convened in Tyrrie.
To make matters even worse, the Provinces of Ventria and Chaeronia, upon their liberation from Iam's rule, had both requested and been promised Princes of the royal blood to serve as their leaders. Cyril therefore sent his two younger sons to be fostered in these provinces: his second son Evan was invested as the Prince Ventria in 111, and his youngest son, Merius, as the Prince Chaeronia in 119. Both Princes acted as their provinces' military leaders, although the Prince Chaeronia shared this duty with the leader of the foremost of Chaeron's fourteen tribes. The regions of Rhythnor, Rhowen and Ballicastra were not initially given any such central leadership, but this oversight was later to be rectified by the royal appointment of Lords, who acted as the administrative and military leaders of these areas and were answerable to the King alone.
Cyril also instituted two religious orders, the Sentries of Chaeron and the Order of Vestra, charged with guarding and protecting the theocratic power centers of, respectively, Pandrell and Vestra. The Sentries of Chaeron were answerable to Chaeronia's religious leader, the Guardian of Pandrell, while members of the Order of Vestra fell under the jurisdiction of the Guardian of Vestra, both of them the regional equivalents of, but subject to, the Guardian of Tyr.
Given the ill-defined and often overlapping authorities of all of these positions, it was perhaps inevitable that Tympania would eventually fall into civil war. The system held, however, for over eighty years, during which time Tympania was to enjoy a great flowering of arts and culture.
