Ontemâzei Empire

The **Ontemazei Empire** (Ontemazei: **Banasora Ontemâzei**) was an empire of clones and droids from the neighbouring planet of Luril, which they renamed "Ontemaz" as its capital world.

Its capital city was the golden metropolis of Bûriteza.

## Flag

The **flag of the Ontemazei Empire** (Imperial Ontemâzei: **Surê Banasora Ontemâzei**) is purple and pink: the purple stands for nobility, and the pink stands for beauty. The purple also represents their national deity Mithûra, their goddess of war and literature; and pink for the majority of the Ontemazei peoples, the colourful Werasonnei humanoids (who were usually associated with pink hair and flowers over their plant-like physiology).

The sixteen stars along the flag's represent the sixteen main nations of the Empire, or sixteen Vozonid goddesses of time (known as the "Sixteen Dancers") whom the Ontemazei worship. Mithûra was the fifth member of the group of sixteen, corresponding roughly to the month of May, July, September (when the Gauvajuts and Vozonids celebrate their New Year), or February (starting from the Gauvajut-Vozonid New Year on September). The central star also represents the Sixteen Dancers, their devotion to their war goddess Mithûra, or victory against their enemies.

## History

The Ontemazei were descended from the leftovers of Konjor rule: populations of clones and droids that were given nations of their own after their rebellion from their abusive creators, the Konjor Supercorporation.

When the Cyan Senate bombarded their planet and the Jauparturnid Vozonid Empire enslaved the survivors, the embittered inhabitants not only declared war on the Cyan Senate, but decided to create their own empire to avoid being conquered and enslaved again. They mobilised themselves for a punitive campaign of extermination not only towards the two galactic superpowers, but also towards all other sentient life in the Galaxy.

After unleashing payloads of toxins to poison Jerde's atmosphere and slaughter millions of humans, the Ontemazei sent their fleets to purge every world that was not controlled by their clonefolk. However, some Ontemazei turned against their authorities and their chaos, creating their own smaller countries such as the republic of Porashon. The rest of the empire devolved into savage bands that destroyed each other, or were exterminated or enslaved by their enemies.

The successors of the Ontemazei Empire were the dreaded Kalokei and the Ontemazei rebels at the Mirkuzian revolt. The former were clones disturbed by Tornarin raids into their secret ruined fortresses, multiplied into a murderous army who devoured and sacrificed their victims at altars to Mithura. The latter were a self-proclaimed successor state formed by Ontemazei slaves that killed and ate humans during their war against the Mirkuzian state, even against their former allies because they were humans.

The Minaklô, the notorious pink-haired Hunters, became the stereotype of all Ontemazei men, women, and children since the war. Many nations even swore to totally exterminate all Ontemazei to punish their global destruction.

## Government

The Ontemazei Empire was ruled by an elected council of eight members, each representing a larger region of the planet Ontemaz.

Colonies were more autonomous, as the Ontemazei leaders wanted to create powerful, merciless armies that annihilated existing peoples to punish them.

## Military

Although conscription was mandatory to all Ontemazei citizens, a large portion of the Ontemazei armed forces was produced with clones and robots.

In the years leading to the bombardment of Jerde and hence after, Ontemazei society became more warlike and militaristic.

Privates wear green uniforms and black robes; officers wear black uniforms; and elite officers wear purple robes.

The Ontemazei Imperial Military consisted of six main branches:

* Felasei - red pyromaniac humanoids
* Skelanei - grey cannon-fodded humanoids
* Onôrathei - conscripted Ontemazei
* Kelunne - strong-bodied clown brutes, shock troops armed with hammers, chainsaws-blades, and scimitars
* Raktesai, Rakesonne - nocturnal automatons that slice their foes with their arm-blades, used to exterminate or raid weaker settlements
* Vojari - winged humanoids that fly over their enemies and shoot or cut them

There were six main battleships that served as the flagships of the Ontemazei Empire:

* Lihoto - Vengeance
* Izoilinni - Retribution
* Risarillo - Judgment
* Sazôrila - Punishment
* Tîzokija - Conclusion
* Katamila - Sequence

The Hunters of the Onorathei, also known as Minaklô ("the Mad Ones", "the Beautiful Terror"), were pink-haired females who volunteered to kill and eat as many victims as they could find. They were sent as raiders, scouts, and melee shock infantry. Some Minaklô were miserable girls and women, forced by their parents to be drafted and transformed into butchers against their own will, and their own fear and anguish made them even more deadlier.

## Economy

Its currency was the teke, known as tekenne in plural.

## Society

See also: Ontemazei language, Ontemazei glossary, Old Ontemazei glossary

Above all, the objective of the Ontemazei Empire was to punish all sentient life to exterminate the existence of evil: to them, as long as life exists, evil will continue to exist as its natural means to survive. They also believed that the universe is also "evil" because "things do not always go the way they should be", so it had to be destroyed and rebuilt into a more perfect form by a god-like race created from Ontemazei souls. That teaching was a subversion of the Jauparturnid Vozonid teaching that "good is a prison, evil leads to freedom". Some Ontemazei were instead more focused on beauty or reviving the Sarmelonid Empire.

Ontemazei society was somewhat egalitarian to promote "harmony between males and females", but in Vozonid-influenced areas males were usually given the final say for their physical strength.

While the Sixteen Provinces of the Ontemazei Empire were orderly, their offworld colonies were more chaotic, as the many competing factions there sought to become a stronger empire than their rivals.

Cannibalism was used to express dominance over non-Ontemazei, and they usually cooked, cut, and ate the bodies of the dead to frighten their enemies. They also killed disobedient subordinates, slaves, and prisoners as food. That led to the stereotype of "*all* Ontemazei are cannibals", and the popular depiction of Ontemazei as "less than animals and beasts". Some nations even used Ontemazei bones as trophies to curse the Ontemazei, encouraged by some Ontemazei regiments using bones and hearts from their prisoners and their enemies at their armour.

Due to the influence of Konjor and Malendor works being unearthed from ancient ruins, Ontemazei society became more promiscuous than their rivals. They also had a policy where young people gave their reproductive cells to be collected and used to produce clones. That led to other societies viewing the entire Ontemazei race as "animals", "barbaric", and "disgustingly uncivilised".

## Religion

In spite of their savagery, the Ontemazei have great respect towards the Vozonids' gods and wights, more so than the Vozonids who worshipped them.

The national gods of the Ontemazei Empire were Mithura and Goruso -- formerly legendary figures in Arentosian folklore, and then cartoons by the Konjor Supercorporation, they were worshipped as the guardians of their people, but Mithura became the more popular of the two due to her beauty. Many leaders proudly acted as Gorusos or Mithuras, and they also made their crushes join in as their consorts.

Another god worshipped in the Ontemazei Empire was Oma-Vatjo, a Lurillim god. This shadowy being was believed to dwell in deep caves as the guardian of various treasures, and he was the supposed creator of the universe.

Many ruins in conquered territories were rebuilt as temples. But some Ontemazei, in their hatred of humans, instead destroyed and defiled many temples and cursed their gods to make themselves seem superior to humanity.

Some Ontemazei even killed their enemies as sacrifices to their gods. They either burned their prisoners, slashed their throats, or burned their hearts and heads as offerings to Mithura, seeking her to grant them power to destroy all of their enemies.

## Notable characters

* "Cat-O-Nine-Tails" - fired a toxin bomb at Mahandaro, killing the Vozonid emperor.
* Thujosto the Cannibal - a warlord that ruled over Remia. Known for using the bones of his enemies to build his throne and armour.
* Sungevethu - a blue Ontemazei warlord who was known for his carnage.
* Hôzoro, Nâjeresa, Zurikoso, Lihogôrino - four members of the Council of Eight during the bombardment of Mahandaro City

### Kalokei characters

"*The humans who infest those lands will be slaughtered and eaten. Then, we will sacrifice all the Porashon traitors to Mithura's altars, and force their pathetic, 'kind' Gods to bow to us. And then Svarog, Perun, Mokosh, and the rest will fall. Finally, whatever lies of 'dharma' and 'righteousness' will be cast down and forgotten.*

*Cannibalism is our justice! Hate is our truth! Brutality is reality!*

*Soon, we will devour the world, and swim in an ocean of blood! And this sinful universe will sink with us, into hatred, death, and total oblivion!*" - Tovesha's Blasphemy

* Tôvesha - commander of the siege of Imasela, mass murderer. She had pink hair.
	+ During the Ontemazei War, she was the leader of an expedition that collected skulls for Mithura. She rose to a higher rank after she was a successful hunter, where she got the name Tovesha (Sanskrit: dvesha, "hate").
	+ She was notorious for her extreme blasphemies to show how powerful she was as an Ontemazei - from cannibalising those she slew in battle to cursing the gods of her human enemies, defiling the sanctuaries and holy sites of the land with the blood of her victims. Her headquarters - and her final location - was a former temple that she desecrated in a fit of arrogance.
	+ After the siege of Imasela was defeated, she cowardly fled with a portion of her warriors, while leaving the rest to be slain, executed, and scattered.
	+ She was finally defeated when a Sevestranian general shot her dead in battle. After her fortress was reclaimed by the Porasonids, that general was invited by the Porasonids to help them cleanse and rebuild the temple, which was a sanctuary of Kali. Although he was a Rodnover who worshipped Jarilo, he joined the Porasonids as they called upon Kali to bring the souls of Tovesha's victims to everlasting peace in Paradise.
* Manduroi - a lieutenant who tried to march north to Vozolaz in a separate campaign of extermination.
	+ She especially hated the Vozonids, seeking to plunge the land into savagery and hatred. She was Tovesha's rival, but she failed to kill her.
* Mârananda the Butcher, Mârondoz - the self-proclaimed "High Priest of Mithura", a theocratic emperor who ruled by murder and sadistic cannibalism.

## Trivia

* The Ontemazei Empire was inspired by the Dark Eldar, the atrocities of the Japanese Empire (like their Vozonid rivals), various monsters and villains from horror movies (such as the Kelunne from evil clowns; cannibals, and beasts that eat humans -- the author hated cannibals), and EqG humanoids.
	+ The armour used by Ontemazei soldiers and officers were inspired by the costumes of asuras and monsters in the Thai play Ramakien, an adaptation of the Ramayana.
	+ The Minaklô, and the pink-haired majority of Ontemazei, were ultimately influenced by "Pinkamena" from the Cupcakes fanfic, but as an entire civilisation of cannibalistic doll aliens. They were also influenced by fanart of Daniel and Jen from Camp Camp, as butchers and murderers. Perhaps the author was also fuelled by a desire to seek revenge against those fictional characters, so he made the Ontemazei.
* The Porasonid people refer the warriors of the Ontemazei Empire as Kalokei. The word was first used from as back as their ancestors' war of independence from Ontemazei rule.
	+ "Kalokei" comes from "Kalakeya", a Sanskrit name for a race of demons. The founders of Porashon used the term against their Ontemazei rulers to denounce their cruelty.
	+ The Kalokei were inspired by the Thuggee cult in Indiana Jones.