"There came into the world a blue-gray wolf whose destiny was Heaven's will. His wife was a fallow deer. They travelled together across the inland sea and when they were camped near the source of the Onan River
in sight of Moucnt Burkhan Khaldun their first son was born, named Batachikhan." -- From the secret history of the Mongols.
The various mongol tribes by color. Yellow (Merkits), Green (Buriats), White (Tayichi'ut), Blue (Lamutes), Turquois (Tartars). Purple of course is the true mongol clan from which Yisugei and Temujin will one day hail.
In the year 1150 A.D. the land of the mongol peoples was divided. However, the tribe from which all Mongol Kings would one day stem was blessed with the wise leadership of Kutula Khan. While many would seek to forget this warrior, we must not if we wish to remain true to history. Kutula Khan was a cautious man, but he also knew the destiny of his tribe and people lay beyond the simple existance of intertribe and clan fighting to which they had been reduced. Claiming that the seers had told him that one day a man would emerge from the tribes to unite all the lands of mongolia, Kutula began working towards ensuring that it was from his tribe that the man would be born.
In an effort to protect his people, Kutula visited the powerful King of the Qara-Khitai to the south, taking with him on his return back to mongolia a new wife and many beautiful maps, but ultimately failing in his effort to forge an alliance. Yeh Iliq's refusal to ally with Kutula did not deter the khan from his efforts of alliance, merely redirected him. Even as news reached his lands that the Merkits and Buriats had gone to war, Kutula sought out an audiance with Ambakai of the Tayichi'ut. The hawk-lords, as the Tayichi'ut were called were eager to enter into an alliance with Kutula, and after the two respective khans exchanged daughters an alliance was forged.
In november the buriats accepted defeat at the hands of Merkits, surrendering some land, horses, and freedom to their khan Chiledu. With allies now to his north, Kutula began to make plans to take advantage of the buriats weakness. After the harsh snows of winter had passed, Kutula rode at the head of an army into what remained of the buriat lands. With no army or real leader to call their own, when Kutula rode into buriat in the april of 1151 the beaten and demoralized tribesmen of the buriat quickly acknowledged Kutula as their new Khan. And so it was that the buriats became as brothers to the true tribe of the mongols, the first step in what would become a glorious history.