The Belhondäri Confederation was a union of bedouin nations that lived at the southern edge of the Desert of the Damned on The World’s Heart, primarily on the Inbrokari Peninsula. It was founded in 5376 BR, twenty-four years after the Léʂik migrations. The success of the Léʂik tribes in reaching the Spectral Coast stirred hope and fear in a people who had long lived in the dwarf-shaped shadow of the Warden and Drakespine Mountains. There was all of a sudden fervor for expansion and advancement throughout the many nations of the south. A war of assassins consumed dozens of nations on the Inbrokari Peninsula. No open battles were fought, the war instead took the shape of small unit engagements, sabotage, and assassinations. This brief but intense war of assassins between nations of the south saw an alliance form between nine of the most powerful nations. Together, the nine could not be overcome by the rest, divided as they were. By hook or by crook the confederation eventually consolidated the rest of the nations under their banner, assuring their dominance over the region.

       The Belhondäri Confederation was governed by a committee called the Belhondär, made up of representatives from each of the nine founding nations. Among the nations themselves there was a plethora of political structures; some Belhondäri representatives were elected by their people, others passed the position heretically, and more still held their chairs through means of strength, force, or coercion. However its members had arrived at the table, the Belhondär was a supposed democracy: each member nation received one vote–no more, no less–when making state decisions. The Belhondär primarily concerned itself with declarations of war, responding to natural–or unatural–emergencies, and the administration of Inbrokar; elsewise the nations governed their own lands independent from one another. 

       The Belhondäri Confederation kept its name for five and a half millenia, although its face changed periodically. Inevitable periods of change saw new nations represented on the Belhondär. At times the transitions were peaceful, however many were the consequence of a never ending conflict bubbling under the surface of the fragile desert coalition. To historians it seems the war of assassins that birthed the Belhondäri Confederation never quite ended and rather normalized itself as a quiet cornerstone of their culture. They understood war as a thing done personally, and behind closed doors. The great benefit of this was that most commonfolk were unassailed by troubles of sons and daughters being taken to die in the dunes of open war. Life in the desert was difficult enough already.

        People largely lived nomadic lives in the south; there were few permanent towns with the exception of the sprawling, low metropolis of Inbrokar, capital of the confederation. By the time of the confederation’s founding, Inbrokar was already an ancient city, having first been settled in 8112 BR in the years after the dwarven slave campaigns ended. After the confederation made it their official capital, Inbrokar continued to grow to amazing proportions. What began as an oversized tent camp slowly grew into the largest known city in the world in terms of square mileage; Malikesh may have been taller, and dwarf keeps deeper, but Inbrokar by far covered the most ground. Its growth was fed by the fertile plains of Narod Tobor delta, as well as robust trade between the other capital of The World’s Heart, Malikesh, in the Golden Sea.

        Humans and Tabaxi made up the vast majority of the bedouin nations of the south; Gnome, Orc, and goblinoid nations were less common and there were even some Yuan-ti nations. Human, Tabaxi, Gnome, and Orc nations were represented on the Belhondär at the time of the Rending.  The only southerners who survived were those few traders, diplomats, and tourists who had been in The Spectral Coast at the time of the attack. That is not to mention the most famous survivor from The Belhondäri Confederation, a member of the Djǝnnäda Nation, Supäri Vamǝpoor; Ʂēäpsőm (prophet).