> I suspect a combination of willfull ignorance ("Oh, those terribly
> powerful Black Horse County types are doing bad things to slaves and
> defeated captives, eh? Good things it's not us".), lack of unified
> will (have the Heortlings ever been unified?) and fear of what Sir
> Ethilrist would do to anyone who attacked him. I suspect he was
> attacked early on, his attacked got their arses kicked and he's been
> left mostly alone since then.
And Black Horse County is way over on the other side of the Grazers - so
it's the horse-spawn's problem, not ours.
RR