Soon after the Sumpfkiel Dynasty was established to rule the newly founded County, while the state now known as Salmarkt was ceded to the Principality of Brodfeld. The pathetic cows lost all of their continental holdings which became part of the Griffonian Empire. But unfortunately the Emperor of Griffonia had no fleet with which to invade the mainland archipelagos of Asterion, so a peace treaty was gladly signed by the minotaurs unwilling to prolong the fighting much longer.
In 747 he lead his forces across the Creeper Mountains to invade the eastern griffon principalities, when the minotaurs protested and demanded the emperor to return the mountains to them, at which his response was a swift crushing defeat of the Asterionese forces with his more than superior armies. The rule of the backwards bovines ended with the arrival of the Imperial armies of Grover I. These were the four mainland states of that realm and were populated almost entirely by their race. The lands which the County of Cyanolisia consists of were once part of the minotaur Kingdom of Asterion.
'The County of Cyanolisia may she be worthy of the name.'
