Al'haat

The jackal humanoid people of Al'haat are very religious desert nation. When the city of Ahn Athalan exploded it created the river suppying the Al'haatine people with water to live and flourish in the dessert. Thinking that the destruction of Ahn Athalan and creation of the river was divine intervention from the god Aesos (Who they call The Great Sphere, thinking that Aesos = the sun) they turned to zealots of the Sun, praying and crusading in its name.