Eovinj

Eovinj

**Overview**Ecology

**Eovinj** is a tropical ocean world located in the Phero Ecumene, the homeworld of the Eovinjai species and capital of the Eovinjai Sovereignty. It has a moderately high gravity.

In the Catechism Makharhyan, its world-soul of **Eo** is considered the goddess of health, combat, and luck.

## History

### Eovinjai Shogunate (76,000s AR - 0 PR)

     The **Eovinjai Shogunate** refers to the dynamic Eovinjai civilization which existed between the species' planetary unification and the Fall of Abzu, with the office of a Shogun existing through several successive polities and systems over 16,000 years. Having united the disparate nations and clans of Eovinj in the 76,000s AR, in the late Rival Realms period, the initial Shogunate took the species to interplanetary and interstellar travel.

The Shogun of the Eovinjai ruled as a hereditary military auotcrat, and created the first proper framework for the *kanvari* and *tanakazhi*, the warrior elite and mercantile class, which also persevered as either hard or soft elements of Eovinjai power dynamics. Over the Shogunate's history, the balance of power between the Shogun, the *kanvari*, and the *tanakahzi* fluctuated, with the martial orders, bound by their codes of honor, often taking up the role of representing the interests of the common people.

The Shoguns' continued rule was contingent on their ability to maintain the loyalty of a large plurality of *kanvari* orders, while shying from hemming the *tanakazhi* into a united opposition. Shoguns which failed in this were generally dethroned by rebelling *kanvari*, who would proceed to install a new clan, often one which financially backed them in the act, as the reigning dynasty.

Notably, the Shogunate was a secular state for most of its independent history, Eovinj itself being home to a host of different religions and philosophies.

When the Aoshanti Empire finally conquered the wider region, the Shogun was incorporated into the Imperial hierarchy as a vassal to the Outer Concourse province, though their authority now had to balance with the additional variables of the overarching Aoshanti administration and Rhyan religious leadership. Several further dynasties held the office throughout the *Mandatum Galaxium*, and it fell and was reformed several times during the reign of the Late Empire, even being held by a short-lived Aoshanti lineage for a brief period in 3,000s AR.

However, the invasions of the Tesar proved to be the killing blow for the Shogunate as it was, pushing the Eovinjai back to their home system and cutting them off from their scattered colonies and vassals. While the title of Shogun remained as the ruler of Eovinj itself, the state which surrounded it had been reduced to barely a shadow of its former self.

### Realms of the Eovinjai (1 - 3,200 PR)

Following the collapse of the Empire and the Shogunate, the Eovinjai of Eovinj, Caesura, Lacuna, Qugunshi, Shishari, and Chatoyant organized into separate and often radically different states.

### First Sovereignty (3,200 - 9,125 PR)

The **Eovinjai Sovereignty**, known to historians as the **First Sovereignty**, was the first successful reunification of the Eovinjai.

Under the First Sovereignty, the Sovereign of Eovinj was a mixed elective-hereditary *tanakazhi* monarch, with a new clan being elected as the ruling dynasty every century. This was paired with a restored and repurposed office of the Shogun, elected by the *kanvari* from their own number.