Leviden (culture)
The drier environs and distance from any commercially valuable river systems mean that the Leviden never achieved the same level of prosperity as their Ashital cousins to the south. Nevertheless they are a hardy people, and have successfully harnessed the Four Rivers of Kabyar to turn significant portions of their territory into fertile, farmable land. Unfortunately this also made the region a target for foreign aggression, and in IS 615 the disunited Leviden kingdoms were brought under the rule of the Amsari Hiklahn. While they are far from slaves, the Leviden people have lost considerable ground in the ensuing centuries to Zaoranian settlers.
Leviden culture tends to be more isolationist and conservative than their Ashital relatives, whom some even go so far as to accuse of having abandoned Canian practices and the religion of Eloi. Leviden villages often appear as clustered houses formed into a fortified compound, both to emphasize their clannish separation from the outside world and to defend against Ran Kemsari raiders ranging far down the dry Iteru riverbed.