Korad: From Bonelands to Pincer
Members of the picaresque faction, concerned at the frequent triumph of the prosaic over the fantastical, can take heart in this week’s suite of choices.
Ruled out, on the grounds that it goes beyond city boundaries to tell us about wider imperial politics: a suggestion from astute1 that City 18 is a colony of another city-state.
Reverancepavane’s suggestion about the river joining cities 17 and 19 has been placed in the poll for 17, to which it seems to bear the greatest relevance.
Some participants held fast to an oddly expansive notion of how many words fit into a 15-word sentence. Fear my truncations.
In a supplemental poll, 82% of respondents voted to rectify my oversight and add a desert city or two. We’ll get to them at the end of the city-defining process.
And now onto the polls...
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