Chagyar Khanate

The Chagyar Khanate was the 3rd major Mokosh Horde to form in Elgenea and was the largest to ever exist. Founded in the late 200s BS, the Chagyar Clan came to prominence, like most Mokosh Khanates, by subjugating the other Mokosh families. The founder of the dynasty, Chagikh Khan, was a renowned warlord and expert archer, who conquered most of the West Outlands along the Whitecoast, in what is now Albern, before expanding south into what is now the region of Moscano in Lycurgia.

The Khanate reached its peak in the years prior to Samson the Great's birth, under an unknown figure simply referred to as "The Old Khan" in early Heartlander literature. During the reign of the Old Khan, the Chagyar Khanate gathered tribute from subjects as far as Muddah, having totally subjugated the Upper Rothringen and Heartlander peoples of Eastern Elgenea. However, as with most early Mokosh Hordes, the Chagyar Clan collapsed under internal strife and disputed successions following the death of Bundukh Chagyar in 2 AS. After a long period of civil war, the youngest of Bundukh's children, Ikha Chagyar, emerged victorious but held onto a very unstable territory comprised of rebellious subjects. Many subordinate Mokosh clans abandoned Ikha's khanate to travel West, to the traditional heartlands of the Mokosh, where they continued raiding the Constantian states. Ikha Chagyar's khanate would be totally destroyed following his death at the hands of Samson the Great during the Heartlander War in the 20s AS.

With the death of Ikha, the Chagyar family was seen as illegitimate and incapable, and the Mokosh Clans again fractured into independent hordes. Their former tributaries in the Heartlands and Rothringen quickly competed amongst each other to forge their own states, which resulted in the Heartlander League, replaced by the Kingdom of the Heartlands in 121 AS, as well as the Kingdom of Rothringen, which was pieced together by Ademar I in 89 AS.