Kozra

Kozra (possibly related to Donosian guzray, 'tiger roar') was a legendary Sepcan hero, and later mythological figure. Documentation of him first appears in the 16th century BCE Red Feather Chronicle, and he is described as one of the leaders of an apocryphal early confederacy of Sepcans that existed prior to the unified Empire. The 15th century BCE Great Axe Chronicle contains much of the tales that shaped Kozra's widely-known character, however.

Stories about Kozra revolved around the challenges he faced as a tribal chief. The most well known legend and perhaps the only one about him to continue to be told among Sepcanic peoples today concerns events surrounding a powerful weather god who wreaked havoc on the Sepcans by unleashing storms, demanding submission. While the chiefs of the confederacy debated whether to surrender to the god or fight it, Kozra acted decisively, first detaining the chief council with his troops and then ordering the Sepcans to attack the god. The god was killed and the Sepcan lands were saved. When the other chiefs stirred controversy over his moves during the incident, he had them placed under continued imprisonment and ruled as an autocrat for 100 years until dying, after which conciliar authority resumed. His rule was supposedly prosperous and peaceful.

The tale was given a didactic layer during the second stage of the Sepcan Empire as a justification for centralized rule, with Kozra's action as an autocrat being portrayed to have saved the Sepcans in face of a powerful threat, and was cited in West Borean political thinking even into the Neo-Sepcan Empire. It is still transmitted in Sepcanic communities today, though its moral is far simpler, merely emphasizing the need to act decisively in difficult situations.