My companions and I live in the Xymop vicinity. In our explorations of the area, it turns out that Xymop owns 6-10 other villages as well as a few smaller settlements. Upon exploration we have uncovered a very large amount of runestones cursing some anonymous people and/or Russians, sometimes with runestones in Russian which I assume are a response. Many of these locations have Xymop banners planted in the middle while the items and constructions are left to rot. We have also seen multiple runetones in good and sometimes broken English threatening the nearby settlement, generally something about "you will leave or you will die," or "you have x days to leave."
Someone in my own group was murdered last night and we had our fences and chicken coop destroyed, along with crops stolen. Today two people entered my house (required trespassing) and attempted to talk with me although one claimed to be Korean and the other used Cyrillic. Later about six Russians passed by on boats and two of them stopped and threatened me repeatedly in broken English that I must watch my words and that I will pay for my words despite me only having asked who they are, what village they're from, and what they wanted. One of them called me a liar a few times and said he'd kill me if I continued to lie. He then said "Be prepared to answer for your words" and left with his buddy.
From this evidence it seems Xymop is a very aggressive village. What is everyone else's knowledge on them? Although I don't want to give them what they want, it seems it would be unwise to continue living here.