Strømgar led the survivors of Argysis east into Hephake, and the survivor-state owes him the shape it took. When the holds fell and King Grønmar stayed to die at Othyndria, it was Strømgar who gathered what was left, fighters and smiths and children and the contents of whatever vaults had not yet been taken, and brought them across the Two Brothers and down through the South Passage before the dragon's reach closed the routes. He did not lead them to safety. He led them to a border. The Argysis exiles came into Hephake as refugees, and Hephake has been a kingdom shaped by refugees ever since.
He is two centuries dead, but the families he led still hold rank in Hephake out of proportion to their numbers. So does the grievance he carried out with them: that the watch on the Hephake side had seen the kingdom fall and raised no alarm in time. That suspicion never settled. It hardened into the way Hephake watches its western border to this day.