>>513312869 (OP)They didn't start as Khazarians technically speaking. Follow the traditions of Slab Grave culture and you'll find a long history of a few tribes that "assimilate" into the others and only call themselves by the name of those they oppress from the inside when it becomes convenient for them to shirk responsibility for their clans actions previous to current history.
A good place to start would be with Hephthalites which are one of the 4 sects of the "Xionites".
Here's an excerpt from the wiki on them
>The 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea (History of the Wars, Book I. ch. 3), related them to the Huns in Europe, but insisted on cultural and sociological differences, highlighting the sophistication of the Hephthalites: The Ephthalitae Huns, who are called White Huns [...] The Ephthalitae are of the stock of the Huns in fact as well as in name, however, they do not mingle with any of the Huns known to us, for they occupy a land neither adjoining nor even very near to them; but their territory lies immediately to the north of Persia [...] They are not nomads like the other Hunnic peoples, but for a long period have been established in a goodly land... They are the only ones among the Huns who have white bodies and countenances which are not ugly. It is also true that their manner of living is unlike that of their kinsmen, nor do they live a savage life as they do; but they are ruled by one king, and since they possess a lawful constitution, they observe right and justice in their dealings both with one another and with their neighbors, in no degree less than the Romans and the Persians
