The Shkeir Trading Nomads (in relation to The Hospital)

Background
The Shkeir trading nomads where once a great united civilisation settled in the Ansar Desert that thrived off trade between the different nations surrounding the desert. Dramatically, internal conflicts divided the once grand Shkeir's into small groups, all warring against each other. They where no longer strong enough to support a gigantic heat wave that devastated all of the desert civilisation. In the end, all but one of the successor states got eradicated. This one survivor had adapted and reverted back to its nomadic origins and decided to take the name of the Shkeirs again.

Post Heat-wave history
The new nomadic Shkeir nation continued a tradition of trade but now in a minimal part of the territory they once owned, situated only in the part known as the Safanium desert, right next to the coast where inhabited what was only known at that time as the Strangers(The hospitallers that established themselves on the coast). Fast forward a few centuries, and the Hospitallers have grown considerably in influence, with some aggressive nations reducing the Shkeir territory, but the Hospitallers taking them in and helping them. In november 2017, the majority of the Shkeir population had converted to the religion of the hospitallers, most spoke latin or french as a second tongue, and The Hospital exerted defacto power over the tribe, having forts in their territory, the ability to use their troops, and collecting taxes. The traditional elder tribal council of the Shkeir still exists, but work in cooperation with Governor Marc-Antoine Al-Mumin, a half-hospitaller, half-shkeir man that is the living proof of the integration of the Shkeirs territory into The Hospital. It is expected that on the occasion of Christmas 2017, it will be ratified in the hospitaller constitution that the territory of the Shkeir is now hospitaller and that the Shkeir people be both considered Hospitallers and Shkeir, as to have special rights regarding to trade, this way benefiting Hospitaller economy, while permitting the Shkeir to preserve the parts of their culture which they are not ready to let go (which is very little amounts).

Resistance and Rebellion
There has been very few open acts of resistance or rebellion within the Shkeir population, most of which have been made by clergy-men and fanatics from the old Shkeir religion that the general population quickly abandoned for Latin Christianity. The majority of the Shkeir population support Hospitaller rule as it has been planned to be included in the new constitution.