[b]Family name[/b]: Comatid

[b]Banner[/b]: A yellow, flared star shooting down over a black field.

[b]Home City[/b]: Comadua

[b]Satrapy[/b]: Lower Qarima

[b]History[/b]: The legends of the Comatid's rise date to what'd many claim to be the beginning of the era of man and the retiring of God from the mortal realm. When man was still in simple cloth wrenching at the eyes of their foes with the claws of their own design a man was cast from the heavens to tame a tribe of people known as the Athpenians. The man, known as Comidisus was rumored to have the strength of two lions with the endurance of a sea turtle, and the stamina of hawk and hare.

The old legends surrounding him tell of Comidisus slaying the Cyclops named Pricipus at the hill of Hisbius at the mouth of the river Alos – which runs to just south of the modern Calydonian capital.

The death of the cyclops Pricipus was said to please the heavens so heavily that when his years of blasphemy against their names came to an end and his blood bathed the soil the hill turned to gold and the tribes of Athpenians came to it like a moth to fire. Seeing the beauty of the hill and hailing the strength of Comidisus they proclaimed him their king. As a reward, he wedded the seven daughters of the seven chiefs and sowed the seeds for a dynasty to rule the mouth of the river Alos, to what many would hail as being timeless.

Though the Hisbius' hills is not made of gold, the strategic position of the city had made it a rich kingdom since even the integration into the greater Calydonian kingdom in the Second Era.

The Comatids followed the Calydonians faithful until the reign of King Liandros. The family's historically rich coffers began to dwindle rapidly over the years over an unresolved trade-dispute with the Noble Republics of the sea. An embargo imposed on the family's trade and port over bitter arguments of marriage and the reported kidnapping of one of a significant trade family's daughter had put the Comatids' on the receiving end of piracy and blame.

The dispute – which would have been otherwise harmless – spanned for too long over Liandros' reign and it sapped the family's gold. Pleading the king for assistance and receiving little action the Comatids were forced to bitterly take the embargo, loosing ships, men, gold, and trade posts for over forty years of conflict.

But the death of Liandros and the ascension of King Syros, the To Be Unparralled.

The sapping of their coffers over time had made the Comatids exceptionally greedy, even more so when Lord Meandrin died, leaving at his stead his twelve year old son Thespos as king of the Comatid domain. Though young, Thespos was no idiot or no weakling. Even before his reign the boy had acquired a great story for being strong, with rumors having it he slew a lion by himself while hunting with his uncle in the woods.

Thespos would have revolted against Syros in a bid to acquire the loot needed to fill his family's legendary coffers. But instead, greater things happened. Syros himself was no fool and saw the need in their family and all others. And with tremendous might mustered all the arms of the Empire against their enemies.

How they fell. And how the gold came.

Thespos insisted on entering the field of war at the age of fourteen. And after much violent coercion was given his father's sword – crafted of meteoric iron from the heavens – and armor and sent off to lead a column of warriors on his father's war horse. With the armies of Syros he set out across the world and expanded his own personal legend.

Thespos the Cleaver from Heaven may be a comparatively minor name in campaigns so defined by Syros the Unparalleled. But the means and abilities of Thespos in the wars gave him much honor and recognition in the court and as a gift Syros felt compelled to gift unto the young warrior and his family the southern territories of the conquered Qarima Empire, giving him land and titles across the lower spans of the former, crushed Empire and all its wealth.

Thespos ruled the Qarima not in gentleness. Though he loved the gold, the quality of the wood, and the taste of the wine. He could never get over its impish inhabitants and their dirty skin. Though, he found allies in their people he never saw the means to advance their dynasty, feeling that they better served him as managers in the wilderness provinces of the old Empire, and a means to oversee the less attractive expanses. For the rest, he slew or sent into exile into the magnificent unknown in the west, to be devoured – presumably – by the monsters that live there.

Under Thespos, many of the Qarima were enslaved as workers of concubines in the king's court.

Thespos married his cousin, twice removed when he was fifteen. She being only eleven at the time.

After being given the lands of the Qarima, Thespos did not slow and continued to campaign alongside Syros and his armies for as long as he could until the death of Syros. It is said the two had a great a respectable friendship and that Thespos had been by Syros' side when he was dropped.