> Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't anybody ever seem to mark national borders :(
>
> This sounds like yet another YGMV things. I'm curious why they're
> important in YG. This is not, of course, a challenge to prove why YG is
> correct, just a request to hear someone else's vision.
They don't have to be 100% accurate. Hell, they just have to reflect the "Sartar starts here and ends here" view of the locals.
When I (the narrator) look at the map _I_ have real trouble figuring out where the borders are. The best quide for Dragon Pass unfortunately is still the board in the Dragon Pass boardgame.
> In M(hypothetical)G, the borders don't make that much difference, with
> exceptions like the (well-mapped) glowline, which isn't exactly a
> national border anyway. MG wouldn't generally have guarded border
> crossings where your passport is inspected and stamped and tariffs paid
> -- that wouldn't feel properly bronze age to me.
Early iron age, since they have iron :P
But I have to disagree. Many classic texts refer to borderstones and the like. Heck, the clans of Sartar have borders (and presumably border stones) on their tulas. Sartar is defined by it's Tribes and their Clans = Sartar has borders.
-Adept
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