Almost certainly guilty as charged!
>
> This is essentially correct. They get responsibilities on one
> hand, and then they get the means to obtain income on the other
> that will allow them to fulfill those obligations.
>
Which, of course is how all systems are *supposed* to work - My suggestions were to look at the cases where this relationship was breaking down for some reason. When the kingdom was under the Ban, maybe they never did, as there ws no outside force, but with the ban lifting then not everything is as closely controlled. Whether the Loksalmi are prepared to admit that, of course is another matter!
(To explain further - If a lord has been granted a manor with various rights and responsibilites which will "cost" him X and earn him X then everyone is happy, and traditionally in the Kingdom of Lokslam this is what happened. But now the Ban is broken and sometimes things go wrong. Maybe outsiders intrude - Krjalki, Soldiers from the Kingdom of War, Bandits, Barbarians or rapacious Foreign Merchants, or maybe a "natural" disaster strikes, - disease, blight, unusually sever weather (The rain bearing Orlanth Winds fail...) and so the manor fails to generate it's income of X, but the lord is still expected to meat his obligations. If the Loksalmi system can deal with this (or adapt to do so), then there is unlikely to be a problem - but if it fails to recognise that such a problem could arise then I was assuming the unfotunate lord would need to look elsewhere to make up the shortfall...)
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> The play is in how much they can retain their ideals and how much
> they have to bend to combat their anti-Loskalmi shadow in the
> Kingdom of War, an utterly ruthless and amoral power.
>
The story is always driven by conflict of some sort, and the choices it leads to, whether on a countrywide scale or for an individual (or both...)
> Loskalm is on eof my oldest creations in Glorantha and I just want
> it to be presented in the way I've created it.
Which hopefully "Heores of Malkion" will do. I was just throwing out ideas in the hope they would be helpful to the original poster. I don't have much idea how the Loksalmi actually work in (My) Glorantha (I have slightly more idea how the ROkari work, and I suspect even that is largely heretical!)
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