Otepec

Otepec is one of the four main city-states of the Sun Empire on Ixalan.
==Description==
Known for its elaborate stone temples, the city of Otepec is located in a high alpine forest at the western edge of the Sun Empire's lands. It is an ancient city and the least populated of the empire's city-states.
===Priesthood===
Otepec is a city of ritual that, despite being subject to Imperial mandate, finds its power concentrated in the priesthood that rules the city. Three huge temples, each encompassing several monumental structures, dominate a large plateau on the northern side of the city: the Temple of the Wellspring, venerating Kinjalli; the Temple of the Still Lake, venerating Ixalli; and the Temple of the Cascade, venerating Tilonalli. Otepec's priesthood maintain these hallowed grounds for members of their order; as well, they believe that political power belongs in the hands of the devout and that the empire should become a sort of theocracy governed by the priests. Since they are themselves members of the Imperial family via distant dynastic lineages, they have always presented a latent threat to the current ruling family.
Before its destruction in the Phyrexian invasion, Otepec was ruled by Caztaca Huicintli, the apex priestess of the Threefold Sun.
==History==
===Phyrexian Invasion===
Otepec was well removed from the early days of the fighting during the Phyrexian invasion. The invasion reached Otepec through merfolk and human refugees, who came seeking refuge in the high city's stark, alpine environs. These numbers, growing as the invasion dragged on, hid sleeper agents, who activated once they were inside the city, sowing chaos and ending that tenuous normalcy. The battles for Otepec's temples were swift, the least costly of the invasion owing to smaller numbers of Phyrexian combatants. Otepec's defenders were the least impacted by the ravages of the early invasion and among the most prepared: they, unlike the first waves of defenders, knew to guard themselves against the glistening oil. Though the city around them burned to cinders, the temples and the people taking refuge within them survived.
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