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> On 8/24/2010 1:25 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:
> > The politics of the area are unclear to me, but a good mythic reason is
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> > Belintar has built an empire out of "elemental countries."
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> I see the elemental countries as powering the magical body of Belintar/
> Holy Realm. There's precedent in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes p77 in which
> the elemental runes are described in those terms.
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That's an interesting idea. So the Holy Country is, in a very real way,
Belintar? When he is dismembered by the Lunar plot, the Holy Country begins
falling apart into it's component parts, none of which work exactly as they
should, since they have been subtly modified to work as a whole?
> In trying to decipher the politics, I looked at the known History of the
> Holy Country and was struck by what wasn't there. We don't seem to have
> any conflicts between the countries or even among officials.
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Is it possible that Belintar somehow "locked" the individual parts of the
Holy Country apart? So that there could still be conflict between Queens in
Esrolia, for example, but not between Esrolians and Uz. That way, dissent
and politics would all be essentially local and below the radar of what has
been published so far. Which would give the Lunars a more developed reason
for messing with the MLaD tournament -- by disrupting his artificial
harmony, that allows more medium-scale dissatisfaction for the Empire to
exploit. Without this, they would be stuck going to war with all of Esrolia,
rather than allying with some queens and "helping them conquer" others....
Peter Larsen
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