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This list contains the main and notable characters from the alternate history serie The Domination by author S. M. Stirling.

von Shrakenberg
The von Shrakenberg family is one of the oldest and most prominant families in the Domination. The family originates from the German mercenaries that fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War. Since their arrival in Draka each generation have produced a leader in the armed forces, politics or the arts.

Eric von Shrakenberg
The main protagonist in Marching Through Georgia, while being a supporting character in The Stone Dogs.

Eric von Shrakenberg is the second oldest child of Karl and Mary von Shrakenberg, he was born in 1971 on the Oakenwald Plantation south of the Draka capitol Archona, his mother died when he was 10. On his 14th birtday Eric had been given a serf girl named Tyansha by his father to be his concubin, instantly gaining feelings for her, she envtually died in childbirth having their daugther Anna. A few years after Tyansha's death Eric helpt Anna to flee to the United States, this had enraged his father and created a somewhat cold relationship between them. Eric joined the Air Cavalry, a citizen elite paratrooper force, while doing his citizen conscription. In 1941 as the Domination joins the Eurasian War, World War II, Eric was part of the 1st Airborne Chiliarchy as it did a suprise airborn drop on Sicily, he was wounded in action during the drop and was promoted afterwards to Centurion. As the Domination launches its invasion of Nazi controlled Soviet Union, Eric is in command of Century A in the 1st Airborn Legion, which was dropped in North Caucasus, near the Ossetian Military Highway. Century A is faced with hard opposition from the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, under the command of Standartenführer Felix Hoth. During the campaign he gained feelings for his comtech Sofie Nixon and they eventually marries prior to the beginning of Under the Yoke.

In The Stone Dogs, Eric have become a senator and have the leader of the conservativ wing of the "Party", his main rival in the senate is Louise Gayner of the Militant Wing. Eric has a son named Karl, after his father, and he brings his niece Yolanda Ingolfsson into his political scheming against the militant's. Eric is eventually elected Archon, head of state, and for a second time in 1997, beating Gayner. He eventually orders the final attack on Alliance for Democracy following Yolanda revealing about the Stone Dog Project to Marya, surviving the entire conflict.

Karl von Shrakenberg
A supporting character in Marching Through Georgia and makes a short appearance in Under the Yoke.

Karl von Shrakenberg was born in 1882 and is the oldest child of his parents and therefore inherited the family plantation up on his parents death, he have a younger brother whos the father of Tanya von Shrakenberg. Karl is the father of Eric, Johanna, Eva and Ava von Shrakenberg thru his marriage with Mary von Shrakenberg. His oldest son John died in a hostage rescue mission during a serf uprising prior to the start of Marching Through Georgia, Eric suspect that if John would stil be alive to carry on the family name, Karl would have turned him over to the Security Directorate following that he learned about Eric smuggled his daugther Anna, with the serf Tyansha, to the United States.

Karl fought in the Great War, World War I, serving with the army in Mesopotamia and Persia and then with the air force in East Europe, where he was wounded in action, while recovering in a hospital on Crete he meet Mary, while she served with the Medical Corps. In the beginning of Marching Through Georgia he starts to see Sannie van Reenan and eventualy marries her, they have atleast one daughter, Natalia.

Tanya von Shrakenberg
She's a protagonist in Under the Yoke.

Born on her parents plantation, Evendim, in the Beqaa Valley in the Syria province, she is first cousin to Eric and Johanna von Shrakenberg and younger sister to Andrew von Shrakenberg. She served in a armored battalion of the Archonal Guard Legion thru out the Eurasian War, retiring as a Cohortarch (Major), during the war she met her serf-to-be Marya Sokolowska, at Kalowice, Poland. Following the end of the Eurasian War she marries Edward and settle at the Chateau Retour plantation east of Chouzé-sur-Loire, Edward amd Tanya have two children, one being the daughter Gudrun, Tanya gives birth to twins in the middle of the Under the Yoke. She travels to Lyon in order to acquire more serfs to the plantation, among the purchased are Marya Sokolowska and Chantal Lefarge, Chantals younger sister Therese was brought along as insurance that Chantal would keep in line. Tanya is a painter of note and have won more then one Archon's Prize for her paintings. She have a close and intimate relationship with her serf Solange.

Johanna Ingolfsson
Johanna Ingolfsson (née:von Shrakenberg) is Eric von Shrakenbergs younger sister.

Gwendolyn Ingolfsson
Yolanda Ingolfsson's clone daughter of Myfwany Venders.

Historical characters
These characters are persons who have existed in real life and made apperances within the Domination storyline.

Alliance for Democracy & Planetary Republic/United States of Samothrace
In The Stone Dogs the Alpha Centauri civilization is referd to as Planetary Republic of Samothrace, while in Drakon its called United States of Samothrace.

Cindy Lefarge
Cindy Lefarege (née:Guzman)

Frederick Lefarge
Fredrik Kustaa Lefarg, son to Chantal Lefarge and twin brother to Marya Largarge, named after Frederick Kustaa.

Marya Lefarge
Marya Sokolowska Lefarg, daugther to Chantal Lefarge and twin sister to Frederick Lefarge, named after Marya Sokolowska.

Marya Sokolowska
She's a protagonist in Under the Yoke.

Born in Malopolska, south Poland.

Others
Characters of no direct allegiance to either the Alliance or Domination.