Upon their liberation from the Pact of Ventria, the Ventrian people immediately acclaimed Titus as their leader. When Titus and his troops had entered Vestra, however, they had encountered an Oracle of Wisdom who advised them instead to seek out Hardin's heir to be ruler of the new Tympania. A search for this person ensued, leading eventually to Cyril, Hardin's grandson, who had been raised secretly in the Ulderlinden during Iam's reign. Initially reluctant to serve as Tympania's new king, Cyril was at length persuaded and returned with Titus to Tyr, where he was invested as the King of Tympania in 85.
A reluctant king, Cyril refused to claim any lands for Tympania which he did not feel were culturally or historically Cholaeic. Against Titus's advise, therefore, he restored the autonomy of both Picardia and the Tyrulean city-states, endeavoring wherever possible to restore their earlier forms of government and even, in many cases, to seek out the legitimate descendants of their previous rulers. He retained as Tympanian lands only the regions of Ventria, Rhythnor, Ballicastra, Tyr, Rhowen and Chaeronia.
