Havath

The Havath Dominion also known as Imperial Havath is an empire on the continent of Ithos. Havath is obsessed with bronze and uses it for their equipment and armour frequently. Havath claims to be the inheritors of the fallen Ithonian Empire. The Havath Dominion is situated in the east of the Ithonian continent. Havath outlaws cults in its territory and claims to be on the side of righteousness. Havath claims to try to stop the endless fighting of the great powers. Havath is an empire of millions. People from Havath are called Havathi. The Havath navy is terrible according to Alustin so they usually hire ships. Havath was literally designed by scholars who studied empires across hundreds of worlds in order to out-empire other empires on every level. Many Havathi believe that their conquests are all for the greater good. Havath is the most powerful nation on the continent of Ithos. No one starves in Havath but it is nigh-impossible to move up in society.

## Sacred Swordsmen

All the Sacred Swordsmen of Havath are warlocks. They exclusively pact with weapons, but not always with swords as the name falsely implies. The Sacred Swordsmen typically carry around 3 enchanted items but rarely pact to all three due to the limited mana reservoirs warlocks typically have.

## Duarchs

Havath created the duarch system to prevent a successional crisis. There are meant to be 2 duarchs to run Havath.

### Duarch Locke

Locke is a well connected fool who managed to gain the position of duarch. Locke died when his fortress collapsed as Ilinia and Indris attcked it.

### Duarch Icola

Icola is smarter and more dangerous than Locke. She begins to rid Havath high society of incompetent nobles. Icola was possibly the most politically powerful person on the continent of Ithos despite being mind blind (having aphantasia) making it impossible to develop and use magic. She was killed in the attack on Havath City by on of the Intertwined.

## The Intertwined

The seven connected liches that make up Havath city. The are named by their location as their names from before becoming liches were covered up to prevent hostile actions being taken on their families.

## Great Powers

Havath has over a dozen great powers. The Havath Dominion had planned dozens of communal great powers with the Circus being one of the most defensively oriented. Havath has hired mercenary great powers before. Havath has invested huge amounts into chronically ill or crippled children and made them into great powers, with at least 5 successes, and a number of archmages.

### Known Havathi Great Powers

Niana Everflame

The Circus

The Rust Queen

Heliothax

The Glass Sphere

The Mud King

The Puppet

Fort Marrow

Zale the Wolf

Krakat Ambrin

Shining Tarsynax

Grandyn the Traitor

Ityn the Gardener

Symon the Shaper

Unnamed Sound Dragon

## Multiversal backers

Havath is backed by the expansionist faction of the mutiversal council. The Expansionists have backed many empires spanning many worlds and designed Havath with architects who had studied these empires. Ascendants, despite Anastis' aether being lethal to them, could survive inside Havath city because the "substrate porosity variances are minimal for leagues in every direction" around the city.

## Structure

The Havath Dominion wages wars of conquest to try and bring stability to Anastis by ending the fights of great powers. Havath does not treat its captured territories terribly and tries to prevent disease and famine. They do, however, take resources from the captured land.

## Opposition

### The Librarians Errant

Kanderon's Librarians Errants are famous enemies of the Havath Dominion. After finding out that Kanderon was not going to destroy Havath, they joined Alustin and intend to destroy it themselves using the chitin wand.

### Helicote

A city that was Havath's enemy until over 20 years prior to *The Lost City of Ithos*. Havath annihilated Helicote so absolutely that a mere handful of individuals managed to survive - one being Alustin. They then placed bounties on the surviving Helicotians who were not in the city at its fall. Havath spared no man, woman or child as they wiped out the city of Helicote. Prior to its annihilation, Helicote had had mass assassinations and sabotage of Havath carried out.