Excerpt from A Brief History of the First Gioran Empire By Eduard Herrmann, pub. 1229. Chapter 4: "The Outer Lands"

"... Sitting at the crux of the inner sea was of course, the empire of the Firoae, a people, by comparison the noble Giorans, vain, and overly possessed with material belongings. They not only held great deposits of salt and gold in their land, but furthermore their control of the land bridges and waterways had made them extremely wealthy from trade and levying fees for passage through their lands [...]

... Far stretching beyond the lands of the Firoae were the then untamed wilds of tundra and forest, full too of savage barbarian tribes which the Giorans came into conflict with again and again. As a people, they called themseves the Rovari, though they hardly ever worked as such. At several points in the empire's history, however, a most sinister and tenacious of these tribes, the Dolez, came to unify several of these peoples together in great wars against the empire, though it is not known if they played a role in the first empire's eventual downfall (to be discussed in chapter 14).

[Footnote] On the facing page is an artist's conception of two notable figures during the reign of Emperor Fuerst VII. On the left is Bofurus, a warlord-king of the barbarian Dolez tribe, and on the right is the Firoae monarch Orammun I. If certain accounts are to be believed, they were said to have conspired together in some capacity against the Empire, though the author has doubts as to the credibility of this story."