20.11.158 Xoral Settlement

Many years ago, the Trolls of Hashan decided to execute their lizardfolk neighbors. The refugees from this massacre settled between the Mhojave dunes and the Dakhota hills, calling for all those that had escaped execution. Together they built a thriving desert matriarchy, with an economy to rival that of the nearby El'Jazira. Xorali often call Xorani 'cousin', but how much blood is shared between the two peoples remains unknown.

Throughout the years, the settlement would play home to battlefields, the passage of generations, ritual catastrophe, merchants hawking their wares and manufactured golems seeking only to wreak havoc. The culmination of violence came during the War of Six Nations, where Varach Scolrys, having allied with Krisiina of Xaanhal, marched in brutal war against the settlement of Xoral. An outright slaughter for the villagers who lived there, it was only due to the involvement of the greater cities that the entire village was not outright leveled. It was barren of occupants for some years afterwards, a mere ghost of what it had once been.

After a few years - which included Krisiina's death and her daughter, Kithan, rising as the new leader of the Xaanhal settlement - the village once more found itself flush with life as the Xaanhali people rejected their isolationism and reclaimed their cultural home. Taking up much of what those who came before them had made, sold, or contributed, the people of Xoral now welcome the world to visit them - albeit with a suspicious glance, and swift violence for those who bring aggression to their borders.