Not to be confused with the city of Tylos.
King Tyleus, also known as Tylos, was the name of a legendary figure in Tilean folklore wich share his name with the probably most ancient human kingdom in the Old World.[1a]
He's traditionally identified as the father of the Tilean people. If these legends are true it could mean that the modern men are descended from the primitive people who dwelt in and around the ancient city of Tylos which disappeared beneath the Blighted Marsh some time just before the Time of Woes in -1499 IC.[1a]
Although today's Tileans are unlikely to be direct descendants of the citizen of Tylos, who presumably perished in the cataclysm that engulf the city, they might well be descended from the tribes folk who tended the crops and grazed the flocks that fed and clothed the inhabitants of the nearby metropolis. One legends records a tithe of slaves levied on the tribes which had to be sent every year to the city of Tylos to labour on it's great building projects.[1a]
However, unlike many other Tilean settlements, Tylos was not founded by the Elves but by primitive Humans, whose inhabitants would eventually adopt the culture of the Elves. In time, the city grew as they took the Dwarfs into their city, providing them with the knowledge of metalwork and masonry. When the city of Tylos met it's destruction, no doubt a great burden of tribute was lifted from the people of the surrounding regions.[1a]
The book Bellona Myrmidia claims that Myrmidia guided the founding father of Tilean civilisation, Tyleus, in the founding of the a great city of Tylos and that she abandoned him when the people began to erect a large edifice in pointless toil.[2a]
Trivia[]
In Warhammer: Age of Sigmar there is an hero called with the same name, his background don't specified if this, Lord-Celestant Tylos Stormbound possess the soul of the Tilean hero.
Tylos (Ancient Greek: Τύλος) was the name used by the Greeks to refer to Bahrain, as the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus came to discover it serving under Alexander the Great.