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, 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 Uchgoch Wars) and the Matolli Empire (Nidad's Wars), through which Isnaria emerged victorious, conquered a large part of Ausarea, 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.