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This is a suggestion about the possible history and culture of the khaganate of rhun:

The history of the khaganate begins with the history of dowinion itself, when the whole region is settled by the dunedain of gondor. With the end of Gondor's golden age in the late 2nd age, Dorwinion menaged to gain independence, and settled the other side of the sea of Rhun. For a long time the two sides of the sea were the same kingdon, a great and powerful Dorwinion, using weapons and armor made of steel, which they learned how to use with the Gondorians.

But it didn't last long, as Sauron began to rise again in Mordor and to distribute the rest of the rings of power to manish kings. At this time Elves of avarim descent began to setle Dorwinion, with permition from it's government, and the dark lord took advantage of it. His servants began spreading lies about the newcomers, and unrest began among the manish people of Dorwinion, saying that the elves were demons and would slaughter then all. The tensions got so high that a rebelion was born against Dorwinion's royal family, commanded by the king's cousin Khâmul, the golden, who was secretly in league with Sauron himself. It didn't took long before the rebelion orchestrated a coup aginst the king, and besieged the vitner court.

The siege was long and brutal, with many dead on both sides, and after some time Khâmu breached the gates and slauthered everyone of the king's house, thus proclaiming himself the new king of Dorwinion, and Sauron rewarded him with a ring of power. But in the end the rebels, under the golden banners of Khâmul's house, were defeated by an army of Elves under the control of Bladorthin, their lord. The grievous people of Dorwinion took the hero of the siege ,Bladorthin, as their king, but he took a mannish wife to unify the two kindreds.

Khâmul, his sons and his followers were brought to judgement before the king, but the king was merciful and exiled the rebels to the less fertile region of the kingdon, east of the sea of rhûn, the region know as Rhudel. Rhudel soon gained independence from dorwinion and Khamul proclaimed himself emperor (khagan) of rhudel, and thus were born the golden khaganate. The khaganate began an aggressive territorial expansion, and enslaved the lesser men of the region, the people later known as the wainriders, who intermarried the former dorwinirim. Their armies, clad in golden armor made of a new alloy called rhunic steel made with gold and steel combined, that they still use today. it did not took long before the armies of the empire comquered southern dorwinion and forced the oppressed dorwinirim to pay tribute to stop the war.

With the war of the ring, Khâmul led his armies against the last aliance, but with the defeat of Sauron at the hands of Elendil and the consequent death of Khamul ( as he was a ringwraith ) the khaganate were severely weakened. Bladorthin, seeing the weakened state of the khaganate under khagan Khemer (Khâmul's son), attacked the empire and reconquered the south of his realm. after that there was peace betwen the two kingdons, and the 2 prospered with trade, Dorwinion's wine for the khaganate's gold.

The khaganate in that time became mostly easterlings, and only the royal house and the nobility remained dorwinirim.

A long time after, in the war of the ring, the khaganate remain under the control of the house of Khâmul, under the control of khagan Khemar III, the great and he maintains a strong and regimented military using their golden armor as resistent as gondors.

That's all folks, constructive criticism is welcome! 