The Demarchist House of Trantor Populations: Demarch Heartlands: Demarchist Holy Worlds Common Polities: Akkite Theodemarchies ​ Dermarchist Akkath builds its rare worlds like bulwarks with narrow approaches, insular strongholds of high civilization amongst otherwise barren worlds. Unlike other houses and their myriad polities, all Akkath is one, a singular demarchy of all spirits united, its people bound by an empath-collective. Their rulers are to be mere avatars, the will

Noble Houses of the Terran Empire A realm governed by imperial lords by the grace of the Celestial, chosen through the exalted Celestial Illumina's church chapter Calhall. Each house rules according to its own devices, bound only by imperial tithe and law. The five high Noble Houses of Trantor are forever engaged in a great game for power and stern rivals at that, but in the face of an external threat have shown unbreakable unity. Ever since the Lighthouse War, the high cou

Powers beyond the Twin Civilizations of Humankind Eternal Empire of the Firstborn Ursu Symbiotes - ancient rulers over Gondwana in slow decline, seeking a renaissance of power. Hegemony of Ur-Ummon - Grand civilization without the light, bastardizing many strands of old humanity. Wilding Powers - warlords and bandit kingdoms, traders on the fringes of civilization.

Sovereign Realms of Gondwana Celestial Glaive Palatinate - Martial Order of the Crown granted lands and tithes by Cambria and Trantor to wage unbound war against the Eternal Empire and Hegemony. Hallowed Calhall of the Church Illumina - Citadel of imperial law and records serving as Gondwana's tether to the Crown. Vulpecula Ascendant Federation - Elusive watchers and peacekeepers created by an archon clade of Cambria.

Clades Superior of the Mechanist Union A clade hierarchy of transhuman societies competing for industrial and scientific progress, ever guided by the eclectic purposes and revelations of their nascent technomantic noosphere god, the Demiurge. Many thousand lesser clades are embedded in the six Clades Superior, their governing meritocracy highly de-centralized and ever changing according to mechanisms only those of the Mechanist Union understand.