Sainor
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Sainor ['saj nor] is a branch of the Karazi language family, itself a division of Eastern. They have had quite a roller coaster ride for the last two and a half millenia, creating a succession of empires, each further east than the last. They have retained a nomadic lifestyle over this entire period.
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Western Xengiman
The Sainor can be distinguished from the remaining nomadic Karazi by about 1000: they lived north of Bolon, south of the Ctelm mountains, while the Bucair lived south of Bolon, and the Coruo to their west.
The Bucair had a close relationship with the Axunemi, creating Axunaic-style kingdoms, frequently fighting with the Axunemi, or trading with them in times of peace. The Sainor did not participate in this process, except to adopt military advances. This paid off in the 1860s, when in a series of military campaigns the Sainor chieftain Numbrado defeated the Bucair and conquered northern Bukaneli.
In the 2170s the Coruo pushed the Sainor eastward, out of the Hasun valley; the Sainor overran Bolon and Bukaneli in the 2180s, under the chieftain Mandlevas, who became king of Sabineli. The conquests gave the Sainor the strength to take their revenge on the Coruo and retake the Hasun; Mandlevas then invaded the Xengi valley in 2198. The Axunemi slowly pushed them back— largely using barbarian auxiliaries— regaining Bolon by 2310.
In the 2300s the Meťelyi leader Aččaw conquered almost all of the Barbarian Plain, pushing the Naviu into traditional Sainor territory as well as Bolon. The Sainor in turn occupied the Xengi valley (2430-40), excluding the delta, still held by Axunai. Rather suddenly finding themselves masters of rich agricultural states, they grabbed estates and palaces for themselves, but adopted Axunemi religious and governmental institutions, and used Axunašin for administration.
Eastern Xengiman
They were pushed even further east, into Pronel and the upper Xengi, by the explosion of the Gelyet in the late 2400s. It was hardly worth it defying the Gelyet, now building the largest empire ever seen in Ereláe; instead they pushed into the Ediri mountains and the Lenani steppe.
The new nation of Xurno reconquered some of the cities on the Xengi and the Puro; more significantly, fleeing Gelyet overran Gotanel; this so dishonored the Sainor kings that the monarchy collapsed (c. 2600). They were on the run from the Xurnese for decades.
Skouras
Perceiving weakness in the disunited Tžuro states of Skouras, they invaded the Šinour valley in 2790-95. They found the Tžuro easy to conquer but hard to rule: the Jippirasti Tžuro were outraged to be ruled by pagans, and rebelled at every turn. The Sainor responded with near-genocidal brutality: more than once they punished a city's rebellion by killing half its men and resettling the rest elsewhere.
The ultimate lesson the Tžuro took from this was not to attack a city unless they were sure they could retain it. They regrouped in the free cities of the Šurantal, put aside their differences, advanced carefully and in strength. They retook Ičili in 2940, and Jippirim in 2988.
The Sainor were now pressed by the Lenani and the Sevisre as well; indeed, by the end of the century these had both advanced to the Ediri mountains, cutting the Sainor in half. The Losaynu ('west Sainor') hung on south of the Ctelm mountains; the Disaini ('east Sainor') occupied upper Skouras.
Feináe
In 3010 the Disaini converted to Jippirasti, as a last-ditch (and unsuccessful) effort to legitimize their rule. They invaded Feináe in 3045-- forcibly converting as many Fei as they could. For a time they maintained and even expanded an empire here, even moving north against the Qaraus.
In 3267 the Fei rebelled, creating their own tej of Feidal, and the Disaini themselves came under the rule of their former subjects. They remain in the north part of Feidal as well as in the Fansava.
The Losaynu were divided in the 3100s by the Cuolese, forming the small, poor nations of Qey to the west and Lo to the east. A number of Losaynu still live a pastoral life in the highlands of Cuoli as well.
