[Cohen]

I've explained in another thread, a friend of mine talked about, but I believe it's something about literature or fable (I lack of any reference), and not any real myth, because it mixes chivarly and with oriental martial arts, with those Tapyrs, that acts likewhise the christian angels, as warden of the heaven (in that case the heaven of the dead Warriors) and of Good, created by a Tapir God.
The myth is that the Tapir God sent his Tapirs in the material world to fight the forces of evil generated by the Shadowlord. The Tapirs are however covered of thick furry, and have pointy noise (I'd say they seems more like rats than tapirs), gifted with intelligence and magical powers. The magical Tapirs aided the mankind to subdue the forces of evil, but the Shadowlord managed to seal the gate that allowed travel from the Tapir Heaven (I'd translate with Flegrean Field in English, but I'm not so sure) and the material world.
The Tapirs now secluded in a world not belonging to them secluded themselves in the mountains, inhabited by mystics and monks, who were a mix of knights and martial artists. In the tresspassing of the time, the Tapirs and that community befriended, and the Tapirs teached those humans about the Shadows, the Evil, and made them guardians against a potential return of the Shadowlord. The Tapirs allowed those humans to ride them in case of battle since an human oracle forecast the return of the Evil to menace mankind.
For what I recall the Tapirs are ordered by their furry, the most powerful was the White Tigrated Tapir (an all white tapir, with tigerlike black "lines"), below in order there were the Black Tapir, the Dark Grey Tapir, the Tigrated Grey Tapir, the Brown Tapir and the Grey Tapir. (like Seraph, Cherubin, ArchAngel, Angel and so on).
Among they powers I recall an attack that is a combo of blink and trample (they're so fast that they could likewhise teleport to another spot of the battlefield, but they really move ... trapling everything in their way), and the ability to jump all around splatting under their massive more the enemy, meanwhile the rider is able to fight.
The land where the Tapirs and the hermits lived was plentiful of forests surged of magical power, and mountains, the human inhabited monasteries-fortresses mostly dig into deep inside the core of the mountain and used the power of the sun and of the justice. That land was called Paffust Hengia, and there was here the Last epic struggle. At the end, when all seemed doomed, the Last white tigrated tapir sacrified itself granting a choosen man, renamed thereafter Tapyrion, all his powers, combined to those of the man, to enable him to duel the Shadowlord himself and to slay it.
About their magic, I don't recall ... it was time ago when I was 14-15 that my friend talked to me a lot about them.

That's all ... I really doubt this could find a spot for a Nation in Dom3, but I'd bet on, it will be for sure an original nation!