Attempted Alborian Colonization of The Grassy Sea

Expedition

The Alborian Empire's attempt at colonizing The Grassy Sea was the brainchild of Guillemot Gavreau, a minor nobleman. Gavreau, the somewhat sarcastically named 'Marquis de Cheveaux', funded the expedition with the majority of his families wealth and would go on to die ignobly under the hooves of the centaur tribes who call the region home. The remnants of the expedition returned home in defeat, bringing with them a message for the emperor and his court from The Tribes of The Grassy Sea; that their homeland was not a place for foreigners to discover, explore, own, or become masters of, it had a people and they stood ready and able to defend it.

Guillemot Gavreau was a minor noble of The Alborian Empire with dreams of establishing holdings of his own in the 'unexplored' reaches of The Grassy Sea. In response to his refusal to shut up about the untapped potential of The Grassy Sea, the emperor of Alboria rather sarcastically named Guillemot the Marquis de Cheveaux (horses) and told him to get the hell out of his court. Guillemont proceeded to spend the majority of his family wealth along with that of a number of investors to raise an expeditionary force and then set sail for The Grassy Sea.

Landing and establishing their first settlement by the mouth of a major river just to the northeast of the Alborian Spine, he promptly named the river 'Rivière Guillemont' and the new town 'L'espoir de Guillemont' or 'Guillemont's Hope'. Scouting parties were sent out, and it wasn't long before they came into contact with the native centaur tribes who turned out to be less than impressed with these foreign invaders in their lands. In the first meetings between the leaders of the nearest centaur tribes and Guillemont, he informed them that they now resided in 'Le March des Cheveaux' and were his subjects and they informed him that they he and his men would be ground beneath the hooves of the rightful inhabitants of these lands.

In the end, 'Le March des Cheveaux' existed for less than a month before the survivors were forced back onto their ships by the victorious centaurs without their glorious leader or most of their men at arms. When they arrived back in Alboria, they brought word of Guillemont's death not in glorious battle but fleeing in terror as his men routed as well as a message for the emperor and his court. The tribes of The Grassy Sea wanted it to be known that their homeland was not a place for foreigners to discover, explore, own, or become masters of, it had a people and they stood ready and able to defend it.