Jiachong-Wu

What was once apart of Covia before the sunder is now home to the Xi a tribal superstitious race of beastmen forming small tribes all across its flat landscape, filled with large open prairies and grasslands. The Xi are very nomadic following the herd to hunt making small portable teepee shelters to made it easy to pick up and move easily. The Xi have moved into the many cities of the empire making them clearly their own redecorating and rebuilding the builds to fit their superstitions. Most of the government functions happen in these old human cites like Tribal Leaders, the Zhanshi, and religious officials, The Jiaocha.

The Xi leaders are chosen by a process of honorable combat, call The Juedou, once a person has been promoted to certain military rank they hold the right to challenge the Zhanshi in a duel and the winner holds the right to rule. This process ensures that only the strongest and smartest of tribesmen can rule, although this has lead to many civil wars and factions in their history. The Juedou begins with both participants choosing a weapon, this is an important step since the Xi believe spirits can embody objects, they will pray and ask for victory from their chosen arm, and of course doing whatever was necessary to make that spirit happy. Once their gear is chosen they enter the sacred ring where it becomes a fight to the death. Once some time dies the victor is proclaimed the leader, and the losers weapon is branded as a cursed item and sold to other countries. The weapon is exiled and must never return to Jiachong-Wu, any one found with one of these cursed items will arrested and sentenced to forced labor.