Great Purge

The Great Purge (also known as the Last Purge and the Temotine Purge) was the largest and most concerted effort to eliminate the Hulti since the end of the Omban Empire, spanning almost all of Khutu, Taizi, and Omba as well as some neighbouring areas of Hasmala and Daligash. It began in 534 IE when the Omban Senate asserted, under the terms laid out by Emperor Impukh under the Atamurine purge, and the Battle of Burafa under Emperor Khogru II, the right to eliminate any Hulti communities remaining in former Imperial territories. While there were no openly Hulti noble lineages in any of the regions affected by the Purge, it was asserted (sometimes with justification) that some lineages were crypto-Hulti or, at least, were completely tolerant of Hulti common lineages. In particular, a series of political assassinations of noble revenants in Khutu and Taizi were blamed on Hulti assassins. The Heart of the Dead at the time, Temotina, found natural allies in the Omban senate and the Khutuan emperor Eluli Ula. Surprisingly, Taizi and Khutu were able to set aside their differences for this purpose. Over the next several years, thousands of Hulti or purported Hulti were forcibly converted or killed, and thousands more moved to Malfan, the main Omban successor state where the Old Folk were tolerated, or west of the mountains to the Osnabi territories (now Ashnabis). By 541, Khutu was declared to be entirely free of Hulti, and while Omba and Taizi never similarly made any such declaration, no open Hulti activity has been present there since that time.