The Earth King's atire is based of communities of Northeast India, especially from Nagaland!! Even mentions the practice of head-hunting! But the author then mixes mainland Indian parts such as the musical instruments or the names such as Asura. I can't tell if they did good research or just saw what looked the most exotic and put it out there
The love interest had only one arm. He had like a dual lifestyle that confused the protagonist. Set in University/college. The characters also have prominent eyebrows