>>> 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.
Each of which have borrowed non-Orlanth traditions (and combined with older Heortling or even Vingkotling traditions) to grow to their size.
> 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).
I doubt that the artificially small tribelets of Sartar compare to anything in Kethaela. They are borrowing the Alakoring tradition which entered Kerofinela briefly (for about 200 years) from the north, before the Dragonkill sent small remnants packing.
Esrolia never underwent the fragmentation of Alakoring, and neither did the Hendriki succumb to that influence.
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