Balchoth

The Balchoth are a confederation of Easterling Tribes, they are close ralatives to the wainriders but usually considered to be more primitive.The Asdriag, Magriag and Odhriag - all tribes of Ioriadja descent are considered to be part of the balchoth.Original home to the tribes that later became the Balchoth was a region east of the known lands of Rhûn called the kykurian kyn, but later the Balchoth moved westwards to the sea of Rhûn and settled down in the Talath Harroch, Lands east of Mirkwood once home to Northron Tribes as the Éothraim, the ancestors of the Rohirrim.Like their relatives the wainriders the Balchoth are known to live and travel in large covered wagons or Wains.The principal Head of the Balchoth was the Bôm, an elder presiding over a council patriarchs (two from each tribe).

outer history and speculations
In other Hands magazine issue 12 Luke potter gives an alternative origin of the Balchoth, he assumes that the alliance was known as the Pult and originally consisted of twenty three tribes (later all at all sixty) of whom the Pultai were the most prominent.They fell under the sway of Sauron who revealed himself as their ancient War-God Maladûm.Orginally they also worshipped other deities such as Arud (a goddess of fertility maybe a name for Yavanna or Ilmare), Kol (God of the river Talathrant) and Pael (a god of the hunt opposed to Maladûm - probably a name for Orome or Eonwe) but their worshippers were discredited by the priests of Maladûm.The capital of the ''Balchoth'# was the town of Kravod, formerly the gondorian borderfortress of Tirith Thoron.