But as I said, the Border is very important to the rulers and how they think. Even if for 20 years you don't care that the barbarians over the border and the citizens within the border trade, marry, party and worship together, the moment a Barbarian chief CLAIMS the land inside your border as his, you go send your army to kick his ass. (OR you don't, and are accused of being weak by your enemies, who you execute, or you negotiate, or whatever.)
I think especially during the Hero Wars, borders are going to shift around a lot, and there will be rival claims. Personally, in keeping with the way Glorantha does things, I'd put borders on maps in supplements that match what the people the supplements are about think the broders are. Thus a map from the Lunar Empire and a map from Sartar traditionalists would likely disagree somewhat on the borders. (And I suspect maps of the Holy Country pre and post Pharoah's disappearance would also have some differences.)
LC
On 19 May 2004 at 11:18, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
> And even such "Fixed Borders" as Hadrian's Wall or the Rhine river were
> penetrated pretty easily, in both directions.
>
> I suppose a question to ask is "Why do you need the border"? Is it to
> determine the ownership of cities/places, or to determine "Use the
> Tarshite keywords live here, Sartarite ones there"? Border regions between
> cultures are usually a mix of the two cultures - the farther you go
> towards the border, the less you can tell the two peoples apart.
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