The Gongols are a semi-nomadic people hailing from Eastern Yaztheria. Despite being a single race of people they are culturally split between two main distinct cultures, Northern and Southern Gongol. Northern Gongols are the mongolic inspired population who live in nomadic tent cities and villages, moving around the steppe and hills with their herds and horses. The Southern regions of the Gongol homeland are more similar to Yuan Chinese culture with settled cities and villages while still retaining some of the aesthetic and cultural beliefs and customs of the nomadic Gongols. Both however are the same people and across their steppe homeland the two have mixed with cities and towns on any fertile land available and any mineral rich hills, with the large less fertile open steppes are home to the nomadic population. Normally friendly and honorable, the Gongols want nothing but to see their people continue to thrive and form the best cavalry the Empire has ever seen. Known as "The Scourge of God" the Gongols have come to view themselves as the living embodiment of God's wrath, striking down all who dare oppose peace in the world as a unstoppable horde of steel and horses

The Kheshig are the elite of the Gongol forces, wearing full metal armor and riding the best warhorses available. To be a Kheshig is to be in a position of honor and pride that earns you much respect in Gongol society as wealth is not the main factor in joining. About 80% of the Kheshig are Gongols who have proven themselves in battle many times over and have been offered the position by their local lord to serve as his elite heavy cavalry, acting as both elite cavalry and personal bodyguards to the lord. Wearing full metal laminar armor with chainmail tucked underneath it, these are by far the best armored of the Gongol riders. They fight as a hybrid of ranged and melee cavalry, using firearms and decorated recurve bows when charging before switching to metal shields and melee weapons (curved swords, war axes, war maces, and barbed lances). Often wearing face mask armor, tieing bones and skulls to their saddles, wearing banners decorated with bones and fur, they are truly a terrifying sight to behold in a battlefield.