Xohyr

The Xohyr or Xohyssiri in long form, was an empire largely centered around the lowland area, centered around a single city-state, appropriately, the city of Xohyr.

Cultural Overview
The Xohyr were influential in Ymaryn culture, mainly in the form of Greater Good, their gift of human anatomy in exchange for the cholera cure, and being the primary subject of an epic poetry about their fall. This is in spite of the fact that the Xohy was regarded as the players' primary enemy and that their behavior repulsed the Ymaryn.

Due to oral traditions and the passage of time and lack of libraries, the Ymaryn and the Xohyr believed that they never had fought each other until the use of the Red Banner in the service of the Thunder Speakers and the Highland Kingdom and Phygriff's conquest.

History
Around or before the events of A first contact, the Xohyr arose after the first megadrought that shattered the lowlanders, forcing the creation of Xohyr as the first centralized state in the Lowland.

Due to the scheming of the Ymaryn, they were the primary victim of the original Thunder Horse's rampage in Lowlands rampage.

The most well known megaproject of the Xohyr, the Skull Wall, was completed in Meanwhile in the lowlands.

Fall
The Ymaryn went to war with the Xohyr empire on the basis of the latter's odious religious practice of sacrificing children to their gods. In reality, players' panic led to the election of King Phygrif in order to prevent a civil war. This was completely unnecessary. Nonethless, the employment of the Red Banner by Phygrif as well supporting former Xohyr vassal quickly led to a rapid conquest of much of the lowland, eventually leading to the siege of Xohyr itself.

The war ended with Phygrif's army attacking the Xohyr capital city, using a battering ram to force open the gates, then razed the city upon hearing of the Highland Kingdom's treacherous attack, forcing the Red Banner to relocate to combat the invasion.

The fall of the Xohyr was eventually immortalized into Ymaryn epics about the city's destruction.

This was made possible by the casus belli enabled by overusing Grand Sacrifice, causing the trait of Greater Good to evolve into Moloch's Call. This more severe version required the sacrifice of the most precious treasures to the Xohyr, their children. Thus whenever someone fought the Xohyr, this created a new casus belli, called Baby Eaters.