Drawn as a political map, Dornig looks like a jigsaw puzzle crafted by a particularly sadistic gnome. It is a collection of lesser kingdoms, duchies, baronies, freeholds, viscounties, earldoms, ecclesiastic grants, dynastic lands, imperial holdings, fiefdoms, free cities, adulterine castles, and principalities. Many of these territories are not contiguous, and though the nation remains an interconnected whole, its smaller components are continually rearranged by court politics and immediate opportunities.