In battle, the Anatol Empire fields hordes of undead, Asker mountainmen together with their enslaved beasts and adept battlemages and priests, but very few anatols. Given that most of the anatols do not live under the command of the emperor, they are used sparingly in battles, and left off to do raiding by sea and land, a task the other forces of the empire are ill fit to carry.

Their undead hordes are slow to move and governed by crystals that they protect dearly, but they act as the perfect hammer for the anvil that is their monstrous slaves, such as the giant calishan or the cunning pislik. Of renown are their Gergedan Sipahi, riders of gigantic wolly beast with a single pertruding horn and their slim flying vessels, which they load to the brim with the most skilled battlemages and other flying summons.

Roughly a decade after the end of The Calamity many weird sigthings were reported in the domains of House Saburnikos. People, be them commoners, nobles, soldiers, mountainmen or bandits, suddenly left their life and carried into the desert mountains with what they had in their backs. From one day to another, without explanation, multiple people from a city would make it into the Asker mountains and never come back. Search parties were assembled, and eventually some found groups of complete strangers travelling together. When asked about their doings, they claimed to be searching "The Truth" with no more explanation on the matter.

This strange occurence went on for decades, to the point of alarming administrators due to the bleeding of people. The practice was forbidden, people were put to jail and chained. Some managed to escape, the ones who did not and could not, refused to eat and drink until they perished. 

This occurence carried on to the Anatol Empire, who became more interested in the matter. Torture yielded no results, neither the usage of magic to read thoughts. Even worse for the Anatols, the killed wandering thousands would not rise up when undead rituals were done upon them, nor did their blood become useful for blood sorcery.

Having no way to stop these folk and seeing no harm in their wandering, the Anatol empire was set on letting them be. Thus, people as far as from the Beylik of Sahil can be seen wandering to nowhere, somehow surviving the harsh climate and dangerous creatures with less than what beggars have.