Only when military necessity required it would the Calradoi appoint an emperor to serve as their supreme commander. After this event, the Calradoi were governed by two bodies: an assembly of free citizens who would meet occasionally and a permanent Senate of elders, mostly comprised of the largest landowners.
The Calradoi were governed by a monarch until its last ruler, the tyrant Cypegos, was slain by Echerion. During this early wave of expansion, the Calradoi subjugated their neighbors and forced them to join a confederation of city-states. Eventually, the Calradoi moved their capital to Pravend.
From this place of Calradios' landfall, the Calradoi began to form colonies in the lands around them such as Pravend and Ortysia.
It is believed Calradios or one of his descendents found the first Calradoi settlement of Charasea which would later be known as Charas. His descendants, the Calradoi, became one of the many tribes living in the hills bordering the Southern Sea and the Battanian woodlands. The Calradic Empire can trace its beginnings to a warlord named Calradios the Great, who led a band of exiles northwards into the land that would eventually be named Calradia in order to make a new home for themselves through conquest.
