Imagine the surprise of both peoples if they ever learned that Davied took the mantle of Lord Umbra upon the previous Lord's death and attempted to conquer both Sorros, its territories, Lorona, and beyond. The name of Lord Umbra has been used to garner rebellion and revolution multiple times as Sorros chafes under Confederate rule, all turned out to be false heirs of the greatest Scaithnaen or "Shadow-Binder" in Sorrosan history. Their myths claim that the mantle of Lord Umbra will be taken up by another who will reclaim the lost city of Val'tirith and its throne/palace/power: the Tower of Days (prophecy is unclear on the specifics of how and as to the timeframe of these events. The people of Sorros, in the regions now under the colonial rule of the CFK, whisper that Lord Umbra did not die in the final battle, but slayed his enemy at the cost of his mortal body. Needless to say, the kings of the Confederacy both love and fear the endurance of this myth. Not one, but three coup attempts have had to be put down within the Confederacy because of claimants to the title of True King. The wording of this prophecy is a closely guarded secret of the Remnant. This myth is accompanied by a prophecy that is supposedly the last given by Tali Fire-Eyes before her death on the lakeshore of Val'tirith at the end of The Unconquered's War. The Confederacy is currently led by the office of Sovereign which is rotated among the five kingdoms every six years. The people of Lorona in what is now the Confederacy of Five Kingdoms (CFK) insist that one day Davied's heir will return to unite the Five Kingdoms as its True King and usher in an era of peace and power.
This event gave rise to two "he will return" myths. The last Lord Umbra died at the hands of the Unconquered, Davied Shining-Brow while dying himself in the ensuing cataclysm caused by the emperor's death. Lord Umbra was the title given to the Emperors of Sorros and the Sunset Empire. To this day, all successive rulers of the Crescent are named Lesser Emperors, and are bound to return power to the God-Emperor if he truly does rise again. He sealed himself away in the foundations of a great Fathoming cathedral, claiming that he would live forever in stasis until the Empire needed him one last time.
But near the end of his life he still saw danger surrounding the empire, the threat of Symirrhan invasion in the distant future, the dragons to the northeast, and the possible return of Giniev the Mad. He did as best he could with no political education or training, and got the hang of it in time to narrowly avert war with the young rival kingdom of Symirrha. Their plan worked, the Empire stabilized, but in the process Kopatel ended up becoming the new Emperor. The Fathoming Church jumped at the chance to calm the public down, and they named him a messiah and champion of the alleged leader of the gods, Dobrot the Giver. The power to build a city from dust in an instant, and just as easily return it to dust. Kopatel stepped in to quell the violence with his own overwhelming force, a mastery of magic unlike anything the world had yet seen. They rioted and eventually struck down the Emperor and much of his court. The Crescentines thought the world was ending. Everyone was on edge due to the recent formation of Symirrha, a kingdom of barbarians to the east who had fought amongst themselves and failed to unify for thousands of years. The Empire panicked at the notion of this being's existence, for which the evidence was comprehensive. The Church named this entity Giniev the Mad. Among them, one in particular withdrew his support for the project, decided he was displeased with the mortal world, and set out to destroy it. He never had any aspirations of leading the Empire until the advent of the Fathoming Church, which began as a collective of archaeologists and historians who presented a thesis that the Source of Magic, ambiguous in its location and form, was created by a cooperating pantheon of gods. Simon Kopatel, titled the God-Emperor, was born a peasant and a gold miner.
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