Xa Hoi

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Xa Hoi

(Nation)

Titles

Empire of the Dragon

Alignment

Lawful neutral

Capital

Ngon Hoa

Ruler

Dragon King Pham Duc Quan

Government

Draconic monarchy

Adjective

Xa Hoian; Xa Hoi

Languages

Draconic, Tien

Religions

Abadar, General Susumu, Irori, Nalinivati, Shizuru

Images of Xa Hoi

Source: Dragon Empires Gazetteer, pg(s). 16, 43 (1E)
Tian Xia World Guide, pg(s). 246–253 (2E)

Xa Hoi is a smaller nation in the southeastern part of Tian Xia, south of the Successor States (formerly Imperial Lung Wa). It is home to the Tian people known as the Tian-Dan and has been ruled by a succession of imperial dragons since its founding in -1987 AR.

Geography

Xa Hoi is bordered to the northwest by Tang Mai and to the southwest by the naga empire of Nagajor. North of Xa Hoi is Hwanggot, to the east are the Okaiyo Ocean and the archipelago of Minata, and the trackless wilderness of the Valashmai Jungle lies in the south.

Government

Xa Hoi is currently ruled by the Dragon King Pham Duc Quan, who can trace his unbroken royal lineage back 3,000 years to the founding of the nation. All dragons in Xa Hoi have to study philosophy, religion, military strategy, history, and magic for at least two centuries before being given any position of consequence. The laws of Xa Hoi are harsh: minor violations are fined heavily, and three punishments are common—death, conscription, and disfigurement. The dragon judges of Xa Hoi are infamously impartial and incorruptible.

Xa Hoi is on good terms with nearly every other realm of Tian Xia, but maintains an active and well-trained army of conscripts to protect the nation from any aggressors.

History

Aolin, emperor of Yixing, fathered a female sovereign dragon with hair of vermillion in 450 IC. By 513 IC, she became known as Pham Toan Nguyen, ruler of Xa Hoi.

In 2105 IC, an army of haunted clockwork soldiers poured from the Clicking Caverns and attacked both Xa Hoi and neighboring Nagajor. In 7208 IC, the nagaji hero Zethivaxus Djeed led an expedition into the depths of the Clicking Caverns, he re-emerged nine months later entombed in a clockwork abomination and leading another army of clockwork horrors that this time ravaged the highlands of western Xa Hoi.

Xa Hoi and Minkai are the only two nations in Tian Xia that were never part of Lung Wa. During the chaos that followed the fall of Lung Wa, Xa Hoi emerged as one of the strongest nations in Tian Xia thanks to the stability of Pham Duc Quan's rule. Pham Duc Quan ascended to the throne in 7010 IC, before the fall of Lung Wa and the current time of turmoil.

Armour

Xa Hoi's armourers are inspired by the golden armour that protects their country's draconic leaders and craft sets of armour, using leather and steel, that depict dragon scales, horns, and wings.

Inhabitants

Crews race dragon boats down the rivers of Xa Hoi.

The humanoid population of Xa Hoi consists of thousands of clans of humans, wayangs, and nagaji. People primarily self-identify by the region where they came from; mixed clans exist and are most common in the northwestern mountains. Each citizen of Xa Hoi usually worships multiple deities and also venerates (but does not worship) their king and his predecessors.

References

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