This story sparked a long debate in the my fiction-writing class about whether it's Fantasy (swords, battles, doomed princes, etc) or History (after all, there're really no elements of the Fantastic in it). Anyway...

The sack of Kentauri gave the men of Viven a foodhold in Lakechyris. Political instability in the region (to be detailed in The Orator's Cycle) prevented an effective response being mounted by the other city-states, even when it became clear that Viven's territorial ambitions were hardly limited to Kentauri. In under a century, the men of Viven (styling themselves the Kentauri, after their new base of operations) would control all of Lakechyris, and several other nearby cities.

Eventually, due to time and other pressures, the cultures of the invaders and the subjugated blended; they became the Centauri, who appear roughly 1,300 years later in Recovering the Dancer.

Many stories are told about the men who fought at the siege of Kentauri, and some of the epics written survived the centuries well enough to be enshrine permanently in a stable, writing-based culture.