I was actually rereading TaT when I remembered that I hadn't looked at Sounis for months and saw that you were doing a group re-read. I've gone back to the beginning to do a more careful read, since I was doing a good-parts-version skipping along hitting the parts I liked best harder and skimming the rest. Here's my take on your ideas. 1. Good catch. 2. Given that we're talking about mwt here, anything is possible, but I would have thought the money needed for a major political plot would have been great enough that it would have raised major alarm bells in Kamet's mind instead of the this-bears-careful-watching attitude he seems to project. 3. This seems plausible. I've got some additional ideas about Ornon, but they seem to fit better in discussing later events, so I'll hold onto the thought 'til the next section. 4. I've always thought of Eddis as a city state. It's smaller than the other two and, even on our lovely new maps, there is no mention of any population center larger than a village other than Eddis. I'm not so sure about the other two. They are larger and have multiple population centers, many of them controlled by barons at least nominally loyal to a sovereign, so I never really thought about them as city states. I suppose from the Mede point of view they might be. Or maybe I just don't understand the concept of city states.
Unrelated question: Eddis has barons, too. She says so in QoA. What do they do except lead parts of her army? We never hear about this bit or that bit of Eddis belonging to the demesne of some baron.
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Date: 5/9/18 06:55 pm (UTC)1. Good catch.
2. Given that we're talking about mwt here, anything is possible, but I would have thought the money needed for a major political plot would have been great enough that it would have raised major alarm bells in Kamet's mind instead of the this-bears-careful-watching attitude he seems to project.
3. This seems plausible. I've got some additional ideas about Ornon, but they seem to fit better in discussing later events, so I'll hold onto the thought 'til the next section.
4. I've always thought of Eddis as a city state. It's smaller than the other two and, even on our lovely new maps, there is no mention of any population center larger than a village other than Eddis. I'm not so sure about the other two. They are larger and have multiple population centers, many of them controlled by barons at least nominally loyal to a sovereign, so I never really thought about them as city states. I suppose from the Mede point of view they might be. Or maybe I just don't understand the concept of city states.
Unrelated question: Eddis has barons, too. She says so in QoA. What do they do except lead parts of her army? We never hear about this bit or that bit of Eddis belonging to the demesne of some baron.