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====[[Protectorate of Menoth]]====

Worshipers of Menoth, the god of civilization and mankind; who is kind of an asshole. The Church of Menoth began falling out with Cygnar about a thousand years ago, since a more benign god named Morrow began gaining favor. While the two churches were able to coexist for hundreds of years, relations between them eventually turned sour, especially because the then-king of Cygnar favored Morrow. Eventually, the Menite church got sick of his shit, wandered off into the desert, discovered petroleum, and endured even more oppression under Vinter Raelthorne IV before the Cygnarans also got sick of his shit and voted him out of office in the traditional feudal manner: with a military coup. The chaos resulting from this allowed the theocracy to form its own quasi-legal nation: the Protectorate of Menoth.

''Technically'' speaking, the Protectorate is not allowed to have a military, which the Protectorate actually adhered to during its early years, but has lately begun to ignore. They aren't really ''evil'', per se (they have legitimate Lawful Good [[paladin]]s), but the leaders of the theocracy are, by and large, a pretty awful bunch. The Protectorate's main goal right now is to forcibly convert everyone back to the True Faith (well, at least the humans, anyway - Menoth couldn't care less about everybody else). Most recently, they invaded the eastern half of Llael, who quickly found that they preferred Khador's iron-fisted rule to the Protectorate's flamethrowers. 

On the tabletop, the Protectorate is all about synergy. Menite armies field the best support units in the game, which take their ''other'' units from "decent" to "oh my fuck what". The most iconic of these units is the Choir of Menoth, which is hands-down the single best 'jack support unit out there. Menite 'jacks have only middling statlines on their own, but with the Choir (and Menoth's other servants) backing them up, they can become seriously terrifying. As such, the Protectorate is one of the more 'jack-heavy factions in the game.

Menite armies also have a decidedly Ottoman Empire motif, with a dash of [[Inquisition|Spanish Inquisition]] thrown in for good measure. As non-divine magic is considered [[heresy]] by the Menite church, Protectorate armies have a lot of ways to counteract it. Dispel magic abounds, as do plenty of other denial-focused abilities which will put a serious crimp in the style of any opponent. Defensive buffs are also exceptionally common, which makes a Menite army a tough-as-nails brick that's very hard to crack open - so long as its support units are protected. On the other hand, Menite units tend to be quite slow, and there aren't many ways for the faction to increase their mobility. Menite warcasters also tend to be fairly fragile and vulnerable to assassination, so it's important to protect them.  Lastly, their infantry is generally terrible; exemplars hit like a truck if they can get into melee in a meta that favors shooty [[Khador|red]] and [[Cygnar|blue]] gunlines, but their bread and butter ranged unit can't reliably hit anything despite having AOE 3.