Isnaria

Isnaria was a Pemantian empire that existed from the 14th to 9th centuries BCE, centred on Carsa but extending its power along the Confluent Seas into southeastern Vasarea, Varasan in western Ausarea, and northern Hypocos. It was established over the period 1370–22 when Sargamant under the Isnarids united western Carsa under its hegemony, and by 1250 firmly represented the centre of the Reign of Lamps. The later half of the 13th century saw a period of crisis and instability, the Disarray of Bamagara, which led to the rise of the Secharids to the throne. The 12th–11th centuries were dominated by struggles against Magal (the Togrian Wars) and the Matolli Empire (Nidad's Wars), through which Isnaria emerged victorious, conquered most of Varasan, dominated the Confluent Seas, and arguably became the single superpower of the Lamp Age world. After the Paraphernic Wars in the 9th century BCE the empire was severely weakened, succumbing to civilizational collapse after the Isnarian Cataclysm.

Isnaria was originally a typical Pemantian polity, an aristocratic confederation of very guarded vish households common to the Pagerians, whose domination over autonomous client communities was represented by the power of blinking code in compelling these subjects to do as the Pemantians pleased. After the Disarray of Bamagara centralizing tendencies emerged, symbolized by attempts to create a universal, sophisticated blinking code with a more advanced linguistic capacity, to be joined with imperial expansion such that the power of lamps as exalted by the Pemantians in banuda could easily regulate, command, and program the known and economically relevant world to the Isnarian ruler's content. In the process, however, the empire incorporated non-Pemantian peoples into its workings to the effect of creating an increasingly cosmopolitan society. The imperial code came to face a culture based more on heroic ancestral mythologies represented by the Kashsian kisittus (and whose Bashtan script struck at the public place of lamp codes), to which the Stanata was compiled in response. The process of syncretism produced cults of a fiery disposition, the paraphernes, whose conflicts ravaged Isnarian society and with the Paraphernic Wars had effectively destroyed the old empire and its civilization.

An undisputed pinnacle in technological and cultural sophistication was reached in Isnaria, building on top of the various discoveries already accumulated by Pemantians. From its beginnings, the empire undertook extensive land reclamation projects in the Carsan islands, with intensive settlement and farming contributing to the severalfold growth of the Pemantian population. At its height Isnaria had dozens of millions of subjects, likely more than half of the world human population at the time, although a majority of them were Ausareans and such a proportion came to undermine the empire. Isnarian civilization also boasted heliograph networks for blinking code messages, advanced astronomical knowledge, the ability to produce relatively complex chemicals, and numerous large monuments. Its artistic and intellectual depth is likely only adumbrated by the tremendous legacy of the Stanata and other works it left behind. Most of its major settlements were submerged by the Cataclysm and ; for a long period of time Isnaria was the definitive 'lost civilization' across many cultures.