Queyotl

The Queyotl, also called the Pahualaxa Empire, was a human civilization centered around the abandoned Slann cities of the Pahualaxa Jungle. The Queyotl, descendants of long-forgotten Norse settlers, revered the Lizardmen of Hexoatl, and their culture was almost entirely modeled after the mysterious reptilian inhabitants of Lustria. The heart of the Queyotl civilization was Pahuax, City of Ash, which the Queyotl rebuilt from ruin and established as a shining golden city, in reverence to the Old Ones. The Pahualaxa Empire was obliterated in the Queyotl War, conquered and subjugated by conquistador armies of the First Estalian Empire.
== History ==
The Queyotl were descendants of the Eight Tribes of Pahualaxa, human settlers from the northlands who had adapted to survive in the deep jungles of Lustria. The Eight Tribes, while distinct from the Chaos Warriors of the far North, nonetheless worshipped chaotic deities and constantly fought among themselves. In an event known to the Queyotl as the Righteous Cleansing, the Lizardmen of Hexoatl waged a bloody war of genocide against the Eight Tribes, utterly decimating the majority of the human occupants of Pahualaxa. Following the Righteous Cleansing, the survivors of the Eight Tribes banded together as one, offering great tributes of their fallen civilizations' remaining wealth to the mysterious Lizardmen. Coming to revere the Slann and their ancient masters, the remnants of the Eight Tribes successfully forged a peace with Hexoatl, allowed to remain in Pahualaxa due to their newfound deification of the Old Ones and generous gifts to the Slann. From the ashes of the Righteous Cleansing, the Queyotl Empire emerged, united in their efforts to rebuild the fallen temple-cities of the deep jungle.
The Queyotl found their roots in the ancient City of Ash, the long-since fallen temple of Pahuax. Over generations, the Empire rebuilt the great City, creating a golden monument to the Slann and the Old Ones.