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-====== 39 Shards ======
+====== 39 Shards (The Dovinreich) ======
-A totalitarian multi-national empire headed by [[.:Vernick]].  It is famous for its use of the [[polemos:4th_age:technologies:Dovin Stones|Dovin Stones]] to control subjects minds, making formal slavery redundant. This more insidious form of slavery is grossly offensive to nations like [[.:Agothos]], whose [[.:Free Alliance]] is mortal enemies with the Shards.
+A totalitarian multi-national empire headed by [[.:Vernick]] officially known as the "Empire of the 39 Dovin Stones".
+Eminently concerned with the damage and causes of the [[polemos:3rd_age:|Great War]], the Shards operate an extensive state effort against the 'superstition and witchcraft' of magical practice.
+These policies hide the fact that hidden magic is used at the highest levels of government, presented either as religious miracles or technology as each local culture finds most convenient.
+The most famous form of this are the eponymous [[polemos:4th_age:technologies:Dovin Stones]] that magically influence subjects' minds, making more classical forms of slavery redundant.
+This insidious form of tyranny does not go unnoticed by those in [[.:Agothos]], whose [[.:Free Alliance]] was formed to contain the Shards.
+===== Government =====
+The Dovinreich is officially led by an Emperor, but the real power is concentrated in a shadowy council of ministers.
+These ministers are often drawn from secret magi societies that occupy the major universities, making the empire effectively a //magiocracy// that presents a puppet-emperor to the masses.