How about this - the backstory that Joerg and I came up with about ten years ago will be extremely Gregged by any version that ever gets published. We've learned a lot since then - for instance, almost everything we wrote about the Volsaxi turns out to be incorrect. The "King Owain" story is simply outside the parameters of what is likely to be in the definitive version of the events, and really doesn't fit what we've learned about Heortland in the last few years.
Another thing, after Andrin the Zombie King, the later Heortlending kings seem a pretty colorless lot. I've thought that they might well be a lot like the Merovingian kings after Clovis - more ceremonial than dynamic, with the Pharaoh as the true power in Heortland.
Jeff
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