Xaela name examples

[jomoru]

Very true! Though the Mongols at least tried to hold together a stable nation-based civilization.

It seems like the Xaela are really a far more one-for-one adaptation of a real-world culture than any of the other races, albeit through the high-fantasy lens. Not that it detracts.

Hasn't Garlemald conquered Othard, though? It seems like they'dve pulled a reverse-Genghis and get the clans to fight each other rather than acknowledge the common threat and snap them up when they down.

I wouldn't say they are one for one, nearly all the clans are references to other things. Afew are explicitly other horse nomads of the steppes but that's rather to be expected. They have plenty of Turk, Mongol, Hun etc in them plus what foreigners were saying about them and some Dune.