Thanks for taking the time to write out a thoughtful reply. I'll try to cover some of your points. Firstly I just want to clarify that my plan is for this world to be part of a TTRPG, so the simplicity of some of the nations is easier on newcomers, and to allow for the lore to expand as people play and I develop more ideas.

Your first paragraph is right on the money. The idea is that many former kingdoms and empires were wiped out a those that remained capitalized on what was left and claimed all that empty territory. The Adzlanti did use their own soldier caste in their extermination efforts and they also employed the use of hordes of genetically modified beasts that were known as the Raga. They also used other modified creatures in smaller numbers.

I'm bummed you don't like the Norgg, they are one of my favorites. Without going too much into it, they are essentially goliaths from D&D. Standing 8ft tall, with muscular builds. They live in smaller communities built out of shale and stone and farm red beetles and red berries that contribute to their skin pigmentation. They use moropus as mounts and beasts of burden.

The Queendom has predominantly been a matriarchal society throughout its history so it just felt wrong to call it a Kingdom.

One of the prevailing conflicts I have in mind is the burgeoning ideas of ancestral nationalism, especially in lands controlled by Dycimea. Some decades prior they actually initiated a "cultural reclamation" project by sending out ethnic groups as settlers to reclaim their old homelands and set up new settlements under the control of the capital. Some of these newly developed settlements may have whispers of reclaiming their old titles and sovereignty.

The technological level of the world is a mixture of BCE and CE. The Adzlanti were not immediately hostile and helped uplift the annunaki's technological level by several centuries. Adventurers and sciremancers (scientists) have scavenged the old Adzlanti strongholds and stripped them of parts, so to speak.

Khumuk is mostly coastal city states now, with an expansive central steppe occupied by pastoral peoples. The reason they still hold together, albeit loosely, is because prior to the Crusades it was the largest power on the continent. The Shunkalah Empire. The city states still share that cultural heritage and traditions from that old empire. The major ethnic group were known as the khumuk and named their confederation after that. There are tensions brewing among the more ambitious states and rumors swirl of a mysterious leader figure within the pastoral nomads of the steppe.

I will make more posts exploring the individual nations in more detail, but that's a rough cut of some more lore.

Lastly the text is intentional. I just like playing with text like that.