Editing Daily Life Under the Shadow (section)

====Occupied Erenland====
The Shadow has divided Erenland into 22 districts, creating
a system of regional viceroys that have their own troops
to enforce the laws, root out resistance groups, and ensure the
smooth flow of supplies, slaves, and sacrifices. The viceroys
are responsible for vast areas, much of which is sparsely populated
and not easily accessible. The major communities all
have permanent garrisons and the old trade roads and navigable
rivers are well patrolled, with fortified guard posts at fairly
regular intervals. Minor roads, game trails, and lesser
rivers and streams are rarely patrolled, however, due mostly
to the sheer scope of each garrison’s patrol zone and the limited
returns to be gained. Indeed, the vast distances between
population centers and major roads, especially in the Dornish
north, are the major reason why the resistance has survived
for a century against overwhelming odds.
Not all humans are enemies of Izrador; many are active
collaborators. The Order of Shadow, for instance, is almost
exclusively human. In addition, thousands of humans serve in
the Night King Jahzir’s armies or as guards for legates, as
loyal retainers of the traitor princes and false sussars, and in
mercenary units. While each racial group accuses the others
of providing the greatest percentage of traitors, the truth is
that Dorns, Erenlanders, and Sarcosans have all turned willingly
to the service of the dark god. Many of these are not evil
warlords or malevolent rogues, but rather simple craftsmen,
farmers, and woodsmen who betray their friends and neighbors
out of fear or desperation. Collaborators can appear anywhere
and in any guise. The old healer that acts as the local
midwife is the same woman that identifies children who bear
the spark of magic to the local legate. The neighbor that has
shared bread for years reports blasphemies against Izrador to
see former friends hung. The fear that anyone could secretly
worship or serve the dark god has sapped the will of most of
the subjugated people of Eredane to resist the Shadow.