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| ====== 39 Shards (The Dovinreich) ====== | ====== 39 Shards (The Dovinreich) ====== |
| 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 has some of the harshest laws against the practice of 'superstition and witchcraft,' all the while using subtle magic at the highest levels of government presented either as religious miracles or technology. The most famous of these are the [[polemos:4th_age:technologies:Dovin Stones]] to influence subjects' minds, making more classical forms of slavery redundant. This more insidious enslavement 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. |
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| ===== Government ===== | ===== 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 hidden magi schools that occupy the major universities, making the empire effectively a //magiocracy// that presents a puppet-emperor to the masses. | 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. |