So if anyone wants to see a more respectful counterpart culture to the Mongols, I'd recommend looking into the Xaela from Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. They'v

So if anyone wants to see a more respectful counterpart culture to the Mongols, I'd recommend looking into the Xaela from Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. They've never claimed in the slightest to be historically accurate, but their cultural practices are surprisingly well-researched, and more importantly the Xaela are written as fundamentally decent people and not a vicious unrelenting horde of uncivilized barbarians. I found an excellent twitter thread on this a while back... unfortunately it appears to be gone, but I was able to find some of it in the Wayback Machine... http://web.archive.org/web/20200715161430/https://twitter.com/doritolizards/status/1283413649755963395 http://web.archive.org/web/20200715161430/https://twitter.co... [make sure to scroll both up and down, this is the archive link I found that had the most of the original thread, and it's kind of in the middle]