Omé Dynasty

The Omé Dynasty was one of the dynasties that ruled the Empire of the Tarakasane, succeeding the Guha Dynasty. It is the second dynasty for which solid historical records exist of the entire period, and one of the foundational periods for the culture of the Tarakasane.

Despite being the longest-ruling dynasty of the Empire, lasting some 751 years, the Omé rulers only retained solid control over the Empire for roughly the first three centuries of the period; the watershed date is often taken to be 278 Omé, when the capital city, Meiron, was sacked, and the Tairazun went into exile.

Origins and Pre-Dynasty
The origins of the Omé people, or state, are shrouded in mystery, though it is generally agreed that they came from the eastern portion of the Empire. In the process of consolidation that followed the foundation of the Guha Dynasty, they were not mentioned in historical records; they first appeared, rather, nearly a century into the Guha era, by which time they were already considered a state and not a 'tribe' or 'people'. The state of Omé, in turn, appears to have been centred in what later became eastern Shar.

Whatever their ultimate ethnic origin, it is clear that they were quickly assimilated into the culture of the Guha; by its middle centuries, when its authority over the eastern lands had been severely weakened by pressure from the peoples of Hashuru and Urekh in the south and non-Imperial peoples in the north and east, the Omé were recorded as having become the 'Protector and Hegemon of the East', serving as a bulwark for the Guha-aligned feudal states. This period of Oméilé Hegemony lasted in the east for nearly 220 years, during which time they were responsible for expanding the civilisation of the Tarakasane eastwards and northwards.

Destruction of the Guha
After the near-capture of the Guha capital in Tagansaré by Hashuru, the last century or so of Guha history was marked by increasing exactions from its relatively untouched eastern fiefs in order to shore up its southern defences. So long as the east was indeed stable, as it was for the first half of the Hegemony, these contributions were politically bearable.

As pressure grew on the Hegemony's sphere of control, however, it became increasingly difficult to spare forces for westward campaigns. Eventually, the Omé decided to rebel against their former overlords; in 522 Guha, a large army comprising troops from Omé and several allied eastern states ostensibly marched west to aid the Guha against another southern invasion, but instead declared a rebellion once it crossed the Atgama River and captured several cities along the Atgama.

This rebellion caught the Guha by surprise, and they quickly made peace, ceding the captured cities to the Omé and further heaping the alliance with more honours. While the allies, satisfied by this, decided to go home, the rulers of Omé decided to press on until Guha was destroyed; the resulting dissension led to a war which Omé won, capturing Meiron and many of the cities along the Meidorién. The war also bought the Guha some relief, but it was only four years later when the Omé invaded and finally overthrew them.