Almajun Kemsari (culture)
Though the north would come to be known as the heart of the Kemsari Empire in its later years, it was southern Kemsar where imperial power and culture were concentrated for the first thousand or so years of its existence. Some of the greatest, most monumental architectural works known to mankind were built by its Almajun residents in the long gone, now nearly mythical days of the Seven Azure Emperors, but also in succeeding centuries - works that continue to stand to this day, despite the utter destruction of the civilization that built them.
Losing its preeminent position after the First Interregnum, and then becoming completely overshadowed by the north in the Second, the south would gradually gain a reputation as the suffocating, impoverished backyard of the glittering jewel that was the north - but of course, both would be reduced to ashes after the Battle of the Broken Chain. Due to their position deeper in the desert, the Almajun were hit perhaps the hardest of all the Kemsari groups, and their relative isolation from the rest of the world has bred an intensely warlike, xenophobic set of customs where foreigners are treated almost as mythological monsters and agents of evil rather than mere mortals. To say that they have almost completely abandoned the trappings of their once fine culture would be an understatement.