> Which is how I think Kralorela should be. Perhaps it is? Alex, is it?
> With Godunya in charge for the last few centuries I think it comes across as
> a bit lacking in dramatic tension. I hope I, immodest and unworthy as I am
> ,can be proven wrong, or shown to be in error. At least, let there be a War
> Lord or two?
This is something I haven't thought about much I confess, and nor have I had any Greggly Ordainings on the topic, so I suggest that those who have funky ideas on the topic, strike while the iron is hot, and the grey matter is soft. (Those with a preference for cursing the darkness need not feel morally obliged to light any candles, of course.)
Forthcoming publications will at least imply that Godunya is of late 'In office, but not in power', as Norman Lamont might have said, if that makes anyone feel any better. How much overt tension and conflict there is between the Exarchs I'm not sure of, but I think 'more than none' would be a fair bet.
> Kralorela with its stable government, peaceful populace, lack of nasty
> neighbours.
Partly guilty to the first two perhaps. The government is relatively stable (not much in the way of coups, internal pogroms, or invasions, AFAIK), though how 'effectual' it actually is another matter. (Uh-oh, re-opening old Digest wounds!) All sorts of nonsense may be going on because the government is too 'weak' to prevent it/because it serves some crassly useful purpose/because it provides an object-lesson in the errors of <whatever>/etc, etc, choose spin of your preference. The populace may be fairly peaceful, at least compared to Some I Could Name <glares warningly at a group of Orlanthi starting a fight in an room>, but that doesn't mean they're not busy politicing, debauching, following misguided paths to supposed enlightenment, being Dodgy Geezers(TM), philosophising, fornicating, and doing whatever else comes unnaturally.
Lack of nasty neighbours I definitely plead not guilty to; their neighbour to the north is pretty much the _embodiment_ of nastiness, since if something gets too nasty to be accomodated in K., they basically simply evict it in that direction.
Kralorela may be at least 'relatively' peaceful and stable, compared to certain other hotbeds, but it's certainly not my intent that it simply be unbearably dull: by no means! It might be argued that it's one of those places that the HW somewhats 'hits', though, rather than actively trying to stir up trouble on its own account, though.
Cheers,
Alex.
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