Marannor Khanate

The northern steppes were always an empty land, ripe for opportunity, but left unused by the emperor`s design. For milennia, the eternal pastures were a frontier rarely challenged, patrolled or fortified, and such hubris was not left unpunished by time. A decade after the dissapereance of the Divine Emperor, in the middle of the struggles with the three shogunates, a horde or horsemen and half horse men took the steppe by storm, fleeing with dread from something they talk little about, other than in cautonary tales and fuel for bloody nightmares.

They stroke like thunder, took the region before the garrisons could react, then put them to siege for years with the hordes of corpses and vultures they reaped in their wake. In less than a decade, the northern steppes were lost. Yet these strange people dedicated themselves to a strange practice. Instead of finishing the bloodbath they started, the once imperial subjects were allowed to live freely under their Khan, as long as they paid their toll and obeyed his laws. Thus began what the Divine Bureaucracy refers to as "The Rightless Tyranny of the Evil Daichin"

The Marannor Khanate is populated by tabaxi who came back to where they were awakened, now with a strange fixation in necromancy. With them came elusive centaurs, more in love with the steppe than the mighty cities they brought down. These peoples reigned over imperial human subjects and the kor, who inhabited their frozen ruins for milennia before the Divine Empire even existed.

The Khan is the undisputed ruler of the Marannor, with many warlords having reign over entire cities. The current Khan is one named Muur Khan, a great tabaxi hailing from the Ibechin clan of sorcerers. Under them , a pale copy of the Divine Bureaucracy administers their domains, with little care for the origin , belief or morals of the administrator, as long as it reigns according to law and bends to the mighty sorcerer warlords. 

The Marannor employ mixed tactics in battle. Fast cavalry protected by ilusions is accompanied by hordes of undead and wild mogwai. The Marannor employ a strange type of undead, withdrawn and skeletal, by the thousands, instead of the independent and uncontrollable Jiangshi, or the ravenous Mogwai, which are left for acts of sabotage and subterfuge.