Satyrus II,
king of the Assagetae

Like Leucon, Satyrus is part historical figure and part fictional creation, and both of them share some common roots, for all that they’re deadly enemies in Tyrant.

Right until the end of the Classical era, the Scythian tribes remained powerful around the Bosporus and remained allied to the kings there. We know very little about the relationship between the Scythian kings and the archons of the cities or the Kings of the Bosporus, but at times they were the same people and at times they must have been different. Satyrus is Ataelus I’s sister’s son, as I believe that Scythians were matrilineal (go ahead, prove me wrong!).

Whether Ataelus I won or lost against Philip II, the battle was disastrous for both sides, with a high death rate, and nomadic societies cannot take casualties like settled societies. (I suspect that the equality of Scythian women developed from the necessity of putting them in the field as warriors.) Satyrus has to rebuild the Assagetae (my created name for the coalition of the tribes of the West) and lead them in war at a very young age.