Khonzhou

Khonzhou is intended to be a multicultural asian city that borrows heavily from Mongolia and Northern China. Further fantasy elements have been gleemed from The Dothraki, The Last Airbender, and the Empire Series by Raymond Feist.

(Asian - mongolian, snow, high temples, white tigers (Asian tea house in the gardens), northern china, steppe, Jin dynasty blended with mongols became the dominant city state, a multi cultural asian city state. Kochi, Sami and Massai.)

Khonzhou lies in the northeastern corner of the Essealas continent. The city is an architectural marvel, which like most of the northern cities, covers most of the mountainside. Below the city is a bustling sea port and lower villages. The steppes lie between the dark pine forests of Halberg and the murky woods of Fendahl.

What is the architecture like
How do they gather food

Personality

What is their personality
How do they organize themselves - The Eight Banners
Which city-states do they like and dislike
What is their political mindset

Appearance

What is their physical appearance
How do they dress

Religion

What are their gods
What is their burial and afterlife
What are some traditions
Notes: I think I'd like to do a pagan religion either similar to the Mongolian religion or borrow the red god from the Tsurani.

The Juchen follow a religion known as the five ways or the five paths. Their religion is a synthesis of an early shamanic religion and the most popular of the new philosophies. The five ways ties five elements to medicine, philosophy, divination and daily life. The five elements are earth, fire, wood, water and metal.

Fire - sun god, god of changes, and chaos
earth - The Earthmother, the Bringer of the Harvests; Sleeper without Dreams, Silban (Ma-wan-ta) or Umay
wood - god of the sky, either Lashima or Tengri
metal - red god of war, aka Daichi Tengri or Turakamu, underworld
water - moon god, soft changes, healing, unity

Basic idea -- all five gods are worshiped equally but also based on the situation or the person's need. Based on the concept of generating and reducing, one might for example pray to the earth god to keep war from forming, pray to the metal god for success in war, and the god of water to end war.