Pan-Khalaan (ideology)

The Pan-Khalaan doctrine refers to the belief that the people of the geographic location known as the Khalaani Country (or Eastern-Lands), should be united as "one nation, defying the universe". It created the notion of Khalaani identity and partly invented the "Khal people " as an ethnic group separate from the original inhabitants of the Khalaani Country: the Thëggs. Bahn the Great was amongst the first to subscribe to Pan-Khalaan ideology, and he built a "Khalaani Empire for the Khalaani" accordingly to this doctrine, slaughtering the Sarëgg and the Thëgg in the process.

Pan-Khalaan ideology also implies that all Khalaani should practice the same religion, namely Nubeism (also known as "the dark faith") that Emperor Bahn brought to his people in the early years of his reign, thus massively converting the inhabitants of the Khalaani country, and exterminating polytheistic beliefs such as the Thëgg's Varya.

Centuries after Bahn's reign, Pan-Khalaan is still a prominent ideology in Khalaani society, in spite of the Sehras best efforts to destroy it.