The Milosz Khurungate
A confederation of nomads, headed by a supreme ruler of a semireligious character called a Khurun — who wields little real religious power and is elected among the bloodline of which the Khurungate dynasty is named. The body of the Khurngate is supported by elected tribal chieftains, each known as Krols. After hundreds of years of in-fighting, rebellions, and conversions, a commercial empire has been proudly established by Milosz the Deep-Pocket, where roads from east to the west eventually cross, famously called the All-World Crossroads, where trade and mercantile have always been plentiful and prosperous throughout the years, despite being the face of many battles fought by many who wished to control the flow of trade.
Compared to Khuruns of the past, Milosz Deep-Pocket has been far less war-minded and values his lucrative position as the center of the land's major trade network. Once known as Milosz the lesser, he was the third youngest of his father, Milosz the Conquerer, the previous Khurun. He had earned his moniker as Deep-Pocket through different stories of his supposed rise to rule. Stories that depict Milosz using the fortune his father had accumulated to hire assassins to eliminate his own brothers. More famously, it is said he used his golden tongue and eye for entrepreneurship to encourage widespread trade across the mountainous valleys and rolling steppes that made up his ancestral land, uniting many tribes under an agreement that the Khurungate would be ruled as a confederacy where every Krol would have their voice heard, rather than a dictatorship like that of his father and his father who had spent many of their years attempting to unite the Tribes of Shivani.
Culture
The tribes of Shivani collectively refer to the people who inhabit the steppes, valleys and mountains where the All-World Crossroads intersect, named after a famous Warlord who mythology said had four sons, Radomil, Alis, Gen, and Hanni - all of whom the tribes are named after.
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