Original Lowlander Civilization

The original civilization of the lowlands, extant in what would be upper Mesopotamia. They were not a single state at all, little more than tribes attacking each other in constant wars, with negative decentralization. They eventually bud off successor states, the Western Confederacy and Xohyr, during the great drought that occurred early in the game.

Historical Overview
The Original Lowlander Civilization were a system of farming villages in the fertile central zone of the Lowlands Basin which raided each other continuously in search of slaves and other loot. They discovered a systems exploit which essentially let them trade Centralization for warring with themselves and gaining massive amounts of Economy.

This was detrimental because in Academia Nut's own words they ended up with a "holy shit negative" Centralization score and Centralization is used to resist damage from disasters. When our first big drought came around the time of "To care or not to care" the Original Lowlanders essentially imploded, and broke up.

The people who would become the Western Confederacy, at the time calling themselves the Free Peoples as they were mostly escaping slaves settled in the hills south of the Ymaryn, and then evolved peacefully into the Western Confederacy.

One of the only surviving larger settlements in the south east of the area near the eastern river bracketing the Lowlands, would become the nexus point for the rise of the Dead Priests or the Xohyrssiri in their tongue. This city would become Xohyr, and is what the players usually use to refer to this society.