Mahratian (culture)
The Mahratians are the most eastern group to fall under the sway of Amaghea, and the furthest from their grasp, yet their culture is not so different from their western overseers. Their fashion, language, and cuisine are a mirror to Amaghea's own, and their dislike of Magi is often said to have stemmed entirely from ancient Amaghean tales. Their similarities have often endeared them to Amaghean nobility, and the Mahratians have traditionally ruled themselves more freely than other provinces under Amaghea's sway in return for heavy levies on their manpower to serve as bodyguards and scouts.
However, the Mahratians have not forgotten their origins as a people that emerged in the Aironoian Migration. Both in war and peace, their lives are spent in the saddle, riding across the plains of their new home. Their language loans many words from the original followers of Töragei Khatan, and their people are known to still wear masks as a part of their culture, despite long straying from many other Öltenic customs. To them, a man without a horse is nothing, and even the Kharadan Mountains behind their backs have failed to erase such a mindset.