The lands surrounding the Theocratic citadel of Pandrell were home to the itinerant prophet Chaeron, who appeared shortly after the Fall, declared himself inspired by Wisdom, performed a number of miracles and then, only five years later, vanished, implying that he would one day return to aid the people against the evil theocratic ruler he had prophesied would soon arise to once more subjugate the people. In his short span as wandering prophet, Chaeron had organized the nomadic peoples of the region into fourteen tribes, charged with the holy mission of guarding the magical center of Pandrell against theocratic reoccupation. The tribes named their land "Chaeronia," after their prophet, and they called themselves "Chaeronians." In spite of this regional and religious identity, though, the Chaeronians developed no centralized government, and they continued their nomadic lifestyle.

In the year 31, however, twenty-six years after the prophet Chaeron had vanished, a new religious leader arose in the arid lands of Chaeronia. This prophet, Varus, declared that Hardin of Tyr was the theocratic ruler of whom Chaeron had warned and presented himself as the return of Chaeron. The fourteen tribes united behind him, and in the year 35, Varus led them in a holy war against the Kingdom of Tyr. Hostilities were short-lived. In 36, the Tyrrians used the power of the Seat of Tyr to expose Varus as a theocrat, the last surviving Steward of the Pandrellian Theocratic hierarchy. The Chaeronians immediately turned against him, and he fled to hiding in the Tyrulean city-state of Quintillica.

Deeply ashamed at having been led astray by a theocrat of Pandrell, the Chaeronian tribes, now convinced that the Tyrrians were divinely guided, allied with Tyr, and the two states were joined as the new Kingdom of Tyrrhonia. Hardin retained his position as king and his seat at Tyrrie, but to cement the alliance and assure the Chaeronians of equal authority in the new nation, he betrothed his son and heir, Prince Sarcon, to the young Chaeronilla, daughter of Chaeronia’s foremost tribe, the Aerumnosi.