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 Within each province, the organization of the church is both vertical and horizontal: vertical, in that each territory or major locality requires its own local administration; horizontal, in that while temples of the [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:siath|Most Eminent]] are theoretically supreme, those of [[mythology:imperial_religion:siathar:start#the_eminent_court|Her Court]] are self-administered. The result, when decisions must be taken at the provincial level, is that church government takes the form of synods with a complicated committee structure. Each territorial subunit of the province sends seven representatives, one from its main temple of the Most Eminent, one each from the main temples of Her Court of six consorts. The priests of each god will form committees on matters that are of particular interest to their temples, while matters pertaining to only particular localities may form committees of all those localities' priests - though decisions are expected to be brought before the synod and approved there before taking effect. Synods are generally presided over by the High Priestess of the Most Eminent of the see of the province, though what authority this carries is mostly moral and admonitory.
-An analogous process applies to the governance of the church as a whole, with an occasional grand synod being held on the [[geopolitical:kar_iitan:Hallowed Isle]] near the ruins of [[geopolitical:Kar Iitan:]], the former Imperial capital. These events, however, are extremely infrequent, rarely occurring more than once every few generations, and so while the High Priestess of the Most Eminent in the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:river:sahvarr|Delta]] retains a certain primacy as the seniormost cleric of the church, it is almost entirely honorary except on those rare occasions.
+An analogous process applies to the governance of the church as a whole, with an occasional grand synod being held on the [[geopolitical:kar_iitan:Hallowed Isle]] near the ruins of [[geopolitical:Kar Iitan:]], the former Imperial capital. These events, however, are extremely infrequent, rarely occurring more than once every few generations, and so while the High Priestess of the Most Eminent in the [[geography:sekhaa:river:sahvarr|Delta]] retains a certain primacy as the seniormost cleric of the church, it is almost entirely honorary except on those rare occasions.
 Many of the remoter regions adhering to the church are independent in all but name. They are too distant from the old Imperial core to either reliably participate in a grand synod or to have its decisions effectively forced on them, and therefore despite a theoretical allegiance to the shared traditions of the church, often tend to diverge in the specifics of their practices. This is particularly the case in the [[geography:sekhaa:region:brightness]], where the provincial structure was never strong, with a concentrated takma population that is relatively isolated from the [[geography:sekhaa:region:cerulean_tangle]]. Going by ship is easily the least difficult method to reach the region, but given the near-monopoly of the [[ethnicity:abethine:|Abethines]] on long-distance sea travel, there remains a significant barrier to the flow of ideas and communication.