The barbarians acted cleverly and ""awaited Onegesios's return in order to deliver the gifts we ourselves wanted to give and those the emperor sent"". Onegesios ""along with the eldest (probably Ellac) of Attila's children, had been sent to the Akateri, a Scythian people, whom he was bringing into an alliance with Attila"". As the Akatziroi tribes and clans were ruled by different leaders, emperor Theodosius II tried with gifts to spread animosity among them, but the gifts were not delivered according to rank, Kouridachos, warned and called Attila against fellow leaders. So Attila did, Kardach stayed with his tribe or clan in own territory, while the rest of the Akatziroi became subjected to Attila. He ""desired to make his eldest son their king, and so sent Onegesios to do it"".