With no official khagan, the land was in an untamed, chaotic quarrel that has violently been disputed by each tribe. Batukhan, feared by most of the tribes, held the most power then, owning a significantly large portion of land in the mountain and having the most fearless of solders. Oko, Kutunova, and Gambu weren't too far behind. Monkhu wasn't high enough to compete nor low enough to stand down. One belligerent, barbaric soldier named Arku Bengu grew bitter towards the Monkhu hierarchy, believing the nobles and generals to be cowardliness and weak. He foresaw and fought for a stronger, triumphant future for Monkhu, and knew the only way to win this war was with a merciless, ornery motivation for domination. 

 As Monkhu's fate lies above a raging fire of war, Arku's bivouac suffers a devastating ambush from the Oko tribe, slaughtering numerous Monkhu soldiers. None other than Arku were able to survive the attack, barely. Wounded, blinded, and alone, Arku limped through a dark and vicious blizzard until stumbling upon a rare, abnormally large Phantu Hound; a beast only spoken in myth. Unarmed, but unafraid, Arku stood tall, fists clenched. The beast charged towards the vulnerable and crippled young man, who bears no possible chance of surviving, but still standing tall. As the canine reached to his prey, it suddenly came to a complete stop to notice Arku still, standing still without a flinch. He showed no fear, but rather a malicious glare. He passed the test, and in reward, the hound surrendered to him, becoming his new deadly companion. 

Arku marched back to his tribe with burning rage, order an onslaught onto his fearful, dastardly nobles with his tamed beast. Claiming the position as khagan for himself as the tribes-people watched in fear. Under new management, Arku refused weakness in his tribe. Turning the tides of war, conquering each tribe, one by one without falter or effort, until Arku had apprehended the entire mountain, forming from a tribe into an empire. Arku and his soldiers slaughtered those who showed weakness and pleading for mercy and sparred those who refused to yield showed true courage. This quality of courage and strength is what Arku wanted from the people of the mountain, which makes them a worthy vessel to the mountain. The tribes that were sparred were Oko, Nayaan, Maa, Batukhan, Sinju, and Hanggai, the rest where wiped out from the map and became nothing more than a pitiful memory.

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