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Dullahan comprises a dual city (known collectively as Dullahan) and is built into a large, long-dormant volcano. Its territories stretch across the mountains and through the fertile valleys that surround it. The jeweled city of Dullahan is known as Chevalier, while those parts that stretch into the volcano's dormant tunnels, caverns, and crevasses is known as Sabre.
The people of Dullahan are proud and insular, forbidding the use of personal magic and turning to advanced scientific research into the practices. Magitech rules the lands, with technology such as high-speed rail across their vast territories and elevators being commonplace. Mages who do come to Dullahan will soon find themselves sundered or used in other ways to further the development of Dullahan's anti-magic war machine, and ostracized by the people around them.
DETAILS
Founders: Emperor Beaumont
Demonym: Dullahanin
Population: Roughly 200 million
Territory: Greater Dullahan; ~4.1 million mi²
Government Type: Oligarchy, formerly Dictatorship
Official Religion: N/A
Racial Distribution: 93% Human, 7% Other
Official Language: Common
Demonym: Dullahanin
Population: Roughly 200 million
Territory: Greater Dullahan; ~4.1 million mi²
Government Type: Oligarchy, formerly Dictatorship
Official Religion: N/A
Racial Distribution: 93% Human, 7% Other
Official Language: Common
HISTORY
The city of Dullahan was once one, founded by the Emperor Beaumont in a conquest of the lands and a taming of the active volcano in a startling accomplishment of practices. The volcano has not erupted since he conquered it centuries previous, though much else of the city has evolved. After his passing came a bloody civil war as the power vacuum, desperate to be filled, caused war between the people of the lower city and the nobility of the upper city. An accord was made between the upper and lower cities–later dubbed Chevalier and Sabre–and the Beaumont Council was formed in Chevalier. The council is nominally a meritocracy, with only the best and brightest of Dullahan–regardless of background–allowed to be present in one of its nine seats. In practice, there are families within Chevalier who groom their most promising children into seeking a seat on the council, whensoever one opens, to further their family's political and financial interests. As of the current day, only three council members have ever been of Sabre origin, and none are currently on the council.
Magic saw a resurgence during the civil war, and was swiftly quashed by the winning parties, becoming more and more controlled until it became nigh-impossible to be a mage at all. This came with a resurgence in practices, where they were easier to hide, and much easier to justify with such practical benefits. Anti-magic abounds, and talismans and charms are sold in night markets and in high-end jewelry shops to promote good luck, good health, and prevent the harm a mage might cause to either.
In the current year, Dullahan is a bastion of technology, ingenuity, and dedication to the ideals of what man can do when he does not simply rest on his laurels and fall into the vices wrought by wanton usage of magic, or so they claim. The reality of it is a city divided in two, with Chevalier pressing their heel against the people of Sabre, who form the backbone of the labor forces that serve them, and Sabre desperately grasping for power on the council so they may take what power is rightfully theirs.
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