Quengha & Hatholrim

The Quengha Empire was born out of the splinters of an even older empire, that's name has been lost to time. Founded in the Third Age, the Quengha grew to relative power, controlling their lands well, and becoming very rich via trade. Their glorious palaces and temples were said to be the finest in Middle Earth. However, the empire was short-lived. After only a few hudred years since it was created, the Empire fell. It was during the Lost Years, a dark time in the east that is not recorded in any of the old chronicles. Although some factions survived those times, it was the end of the Quengha, and when the light shone once more, only ruins remained. Free Easterlings searched the lands decades later, but the great palaces were now just broken-down wrecks. However, a few small outposts had survived, and in time they began to rebuild. The Free Easterlings gave them protection to do so, and over the centuries up till now, the Quengha now have some sort of a presence in their lands, albeit a lesser one than the days of old. Despite having no capital or large cities, the Quengha are growing again.

The Halthorim, or Axe-Men, are a collection of tribes that live to the North-East of the Orocarni Mountains. Despite lacking unity, these tribes are very varied, and spend most of their time in civil war with each other. A few great chieftains have occasionally banded together the tribes for war, but that is unusual, and these distant tribes are too far away for most other factions to notice them. However, they worship neither Melkor nor Ilúvatar, worshiping a great bear like creature with the wings of a vulture, they call it the Nepodogov. In the present, the tribes are united under the rule of a Czar, and they have sworn a oath to fight those of the south, whether the Quengha, or the free easterlings. Their sole reason for invading these tribes, was the 'War of Murcraw" In which the Hatholrim tribes united for the first time, and united with small tribes in the great forests to push back the ever growing Worship of the god Ilúvatar, the war was ended with a victory to the Blue Empire, however, after the Avari elves of the Wild Woods came to their aid.