Me>> Esrolia works because its queens are able to function harmoniously
>> under the domination of a single ruler, be he the Only Old One or
>> the Pharaoh. Bereft of such leadership (ie as is happening today),
>> its unity breaks down to become squabbling statelets.
>Still, these "statelets" each outsize the entire population of Sartar,
But smaller than Tarsh or Heortland.
>unless you think that each lesser queen will brew her own stew (which
>still would make the average queendom the size of Quiviniland, aka Old
>Sartar, in population).
There's far more than one queen per faction AFAIK. The factions are an alliance of queens, united by their common marriage to a Year King. I think Esrolian Queendoms are really tribes under another name which works out to roughly 260 queens in Esrolia (using the Sartarite example of 26 tribes per 180,000 people).
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