The Last Castle (by Vance) is about terrans who rely on alien slaves for
menial labour, and what happens when the slaves rebel. It has clearly
some relationship to Wenelia as described. Northeastern Europe could be
another good parallel. But Glorantha has many areas where Malkioni
nobles rule over "pagan" lands, so the Rus or Teuton Knight parallel
applies not only to Wenelia.
>> The Man in the High Castle by Jack Vance was of some
>>
>>> inspiration to the Trader Princes to Nick Brook and I have to
>>>
> agree -
>
>>> excellent book about isolated communities surrounded by Other.
>>>
>> Is that "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick? Or did Vance
>> write a book with a similar title?
>>
>>
>
> Vance wrote a story entitled "The Last Castle". I haven't read the Dick
> novel, but from what I gather it's set in a timeline in which the Axis
> won World War II, which doesn't sound much like Wenelia