Khitai

is a country of the Hyborian Age.

An ancient empire, stronghold of the world’s greatest wizards and masters of the eastern world, Khitai has a powerful army and a sound leadership based in Paikang, Shu-Chen and Ruo-Chen. Khitai is forever at war with Kambuja to the south, whose god-kings vie with them for supremacy in the arcane mysteries of the Scarlet Circle.

Geography
Khitai is the land east of Hyrkania, with the cities Paikang, Rou-Gen, Shaulum and Shu-Chen. The Swamps of the Dead are also in Khitai and also the Great Wall of Khitai, which, at least partially, separates Khitai from Kusan and Hyrkania.

Khitai has jungles, where the natives and grey apes live, and the lethal black lotus grows.

History and politics
For a while, at least, the people of Khitai worshipped the beings from Yag as gods. It was there where the evil sorcerer Yara met Yag-Kosha and enslaved him. In ancient times, Khitai was occupied by white-skinned conquerors from a mysterious continent in the eastern ocean (perhaps Mu, mentioned in the Kull story "By this axe I rule"). After the Cataclysm ,the surviving Lemurians were enslaved by this empire. After thousands of years, the Lemurian slaves, and perhaps the gentile Khitanians, were able to overthrow this evil empire. Likely Vendhya was somehow involved in this. The remnants of this white master-race fled westwards, conquered the land of the serpent men and founded Stygia.

Population and culture
The people of Khitai are said to be yellow-skinned. They worship Yun and his priests dwell in the jungles. The Khitan populace speaks Mandeer in the north and Min in the south.

Descriptions of its people and culture links them to Asian cultures. Relevant place names are generically Asian-sounding (Paikang, Rou-Gen, Shaulum and Shu-Chen). Like China, Khitai has a Great Wall. Mandeer and Min are also analogous to Mandarin and Min Chinese respectively.

As the people of Hyrkania became the Mongols, Huns, Tatars and Turks, the country east thereof would likely become China, Japan and Korea.

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