The Empire, the legacy of ancient Sasinthy, by the grace of the God, the Sasinthēne Empire of Panarine! In the Year of Tanthes 118, Giraïr Danechē of the house Agmapalla, a nobleman from the city of Panarine brought all of the Crown under Panarine’s rule. When he was named Emperor of Sasinthy in Tanthes, he vowed to recapture the lost colonies in Belethion, Hesod, and Voradena. Though he would die before his campaigns reached Voradena, he marshalled the first Sasinthēne army to cross the river Laham in over 500 years, before succumbing to his wounds in sight of Calicart, a city he had conquered, but that his son would ultimately pacify.
In the end, his heirs succeeded in his promise, establishing an empire that ruled over the Talens, the Hesods, and a number of Arpenean and Calassine lands, over the roughly-800 year history of the empire. Though three dynasties (Agmapalla, Xanatháia, and Ourōnea) held the throne, each ruling emperor was called Giraïr, and each descended from Giraïr Danechē by at least the male or female line. The end of the ‘Marching Emperors’, Emperors who ruled from the frontiers, expanding their domains, brought the atrophy of Imperial military power. As the Empire at large declined, stark cultural divisions led to unrest as provincial holdings began to exert their influence. Tanthes itself began to lose faith in the Giraïr’s rule.
In the end, it was the Empire’s former Talenic provinces, Cazia and Orod, who laid the mortal blow. Following their secessions from Panarinian rule, the two crowns banded together into a single nation. After a long period of irredentism, the city of Panarine itself lay open before Cazia-Orod, and the city fell, but the occupiers found little trace of the imperial family. The last of the Giraïri Ourōnea had fled north, where an overzealous Voleïzēne watchman, who, misidentifying the bannerless and weary imperials, cut them down in cannonfire when their retinue kept advancing despite orders. In ten seconds, a world defined by Panarine was now without Panarine or her Emperor, even in exile. It would be wrenching, and it would be forever. Sasinthēne culture is sharply preoccupied with their lost empire. The cultures of their vassals are preoccupied, too, but rather with the still-felt weight of the imperial yoke.