Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Garvenus/The Stormlords (section)

=The Nation of the Thunderhead=
Excavations within the Empire's holdings proved very interesting in their discoveries. They show other peoples emerging into its land - historically known as the '''Central Lands''' - soon after the Stormlords appeared on the Steppe. There were also artifacts recovered from the dig sites which bore traditional Stormlord markings, suggesting that they had some sort of association with the Stormlords in which they were the primary influencing factor. The most common of these markings consisted of a series of curves above a flat horizontal line at the bottom - the signature 'thunderhead' mark of the Stormlords. As such, it is suggested that the Stormlords united these forthcoming tribes under their banner, the first known example of nation-building in the history of humanity. '''The Nation of the Thunderhead''' as scholars called it was likely a protection agreement. The other tribes would offer tribute of various resources to the Stormlord rulers in exchange for their protection, as well as meats and hides from their own hunters.

Further research yielded surprising results. According to slates recovered from a dig near '''Fort Thagaisa''', sixteen generations of Stormlords passed during this time, almost entirely without incident. However, a new leader of the Stormlords, a man of great stature and physical strength known as '''Trawgtarr''', declared that the peoples under the Nation were bound by the divine providence of their god to abandon their former identities and "fully become Stormlord." Though to this day what it exactly meant to "fully become Stormlord" is unknown, what can be inferred is the existence of their god, a being the Empire knows as the terrible '''Sky Devourer''', the first mention of it in historical record. Though many tribes followed the decree, there were others who opposed it. Further according to the Thagaisan slates, the Stormlords would enact a bloody war with the opposition, eliminating every last man, woman, and child, and cemented their dominance among them.

From that point on, there would not be historical mention of what scholars would come to call the '''War of Unification''', or the original names of the other tribes. After the War, they would all be considered Stormlords.