Kerestes of Mimyran

Kerestes of Mimyran, later styled Kerestes I The Subjugator or Kerestes I The Seafarer, was a Phoacian prince who founded the Sarcian Empire and ruled it as its first Emperor. 
He came from Mimyran, a coastal city-state in southern Phoacia, but was exiled from there (or perhaps set out willingly in search of adventure) in the chaotic years following the Great Cataclysm. According to legend, he and his followers and the retainers of his household took to the sea in forty ships; they sailed east, rounding Taijuria and traversing the Azarian isles before they came to the Alabaster Shore. There he landed, subdued the archons of the coast and brought their cities to heel, and in 39 CV declared himself ruler of a new empire. He established his court in Tusuba, which is now called Sarcedon and is still the imperial capital today.