Omitipal

Omitipal ('bone land') or the Neo-Matolli Empire was a Matolli state in northern Hypocos during the early Reign of Trials existing from the 8th to 3rd centuries BCE. From its establishment in 755 BCE after the fall of the Matolli Empire during the 9th-century BCE crisis to 510 BCE, it was a centralized, despotic, bureaucratic empire which claimed a degree of continuity with Isnarian aesthetics through an elite that adopted Pemantian culture in the previous era. Its patronage of Pastism to gain legitimacy saw its authority challenged by dams and experts, and attempts to rationalize and co-opt the White Order by sponsoring the Minakan Court allowed juridical-clerical opposition to rally; in 510 BCE the Court asserted itself as the theocratic governing body of Omitipal. The empire, now merely but also fully a prominent element within the White Order, exerted its influence first by claiming prestige from the concentration of Pastic learning and culture in Hypocene dams, and then by enforcing the judgements of a universal Pastic realm, influencing the direction of a Pastic state system around the Confluent Seas. These ambitions brought it to competing against Tarsia and Essegia in the Game of Courts. The Gesnote migration destroyed the empire by 266 BCE with Rurynotes overrunning north Hypocos, causing the flight of Pastism's center north to Tarsia and Matolli culture south to Danalia.