The wake of the Fall of the Theocracy saw the rise to power of the people of the eastern peninsula, known to the Cholaeic peoples as the Chalycidicans, after their foremost city-state, Chalycidice.
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The Tyrulean-speaking coastal region, including the cities of the Quintillican Confederacy
Within one year of Iam's invasion of Tyr, he had conquered all of the lands once under the jurisdiction of the Priest Kings of Vestra and Pandrell. Perhaps in a spirit of irony, he named his new realm "Tympania," after the religious figure Tympanor, General of the God Emperor, whom the Tympanian people claimed first encountered Love and Reason within Cholaeic Lands.
At the height of Iam's reign, Tympania was divided into eight provinces, each of them (with the exception of Ventria) ruled by a military governor and possessed of a certain degree of administrative autonomy. Iam built the city of Evasendia in Tyr to serve as his administrative capital. He himself took up residence in the citadel of Pandrell, leaving Vestra in the hands of his mother Isdanor, and Quintillica under the control of the defeated Varus, who was now bound utterly to Iam's will and served as little more than Iam's magical puppet.
In the year 84, Iam was overthrown by a revolutionary force led by a Rhythnorian farmer-turned-brigand named Titus. Titus's resistance was aided by the reappearance of three powerful magical artifacts: the Eye of Dor, a legendary stone claimed to focus the inherent Wisdomic power of the natural world; the double-headed axe Eryndor, an ancient artifact associated with the fundamental chaos out of which both Wisdom and the Demiurge sprung; and the Sword of Tympanor, which Titus had found deep in a Rhythnorian mine.
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.
The Tyrulean city-states had been left devastated by Iam's reign and the destruction of Quintillica. Their reconstruction was rapid, however, and in 105, they resurrected their old alliance, the Quintillican Confederacy. Although the Confederacy was first formed as a defensive league against the Istravite cities to the north, it was not long before it came into opposition with Tympania.
The city of Chylorissa was to serve as the focal point of the rising hostility between Tympania and the Quintillican Confederacy. Uncomfortably situated on the border between Cholaeic and Tyrulean spheres of influence, Chylorissa was an independent city-state, neither a member of the Quintillican Confederacy nor a part of Tympania, but possessing among its ruling families parties sympathetic to both sides.
A contour map of Tympania, with cities and regions labeled. Also includes the marshes of Orsa to the south, and Picardia and the near Tyrulean city-states to the north and dawn.
