metcalph

The Malkioni have been reverted to Greg's original vision of a society dominated by wizards rather than a pseudo-Christian Church.  The medieval details in prior Gloranthan publications were the result of, I understand, severe time constraints in the making of the Genertela boxed set which required substantial filler and so the medieval material was just parachuted in.  Subsequent publications just simply accepted it.

It's not clear that the counties belong to either Heortland or God Forgot.  The map on p246 is for Malkonwal, not Heortland.  I've a feeling that the Counties are responsible to the God-King directly rather than the KIng and Governor of Heortland.

A stronger argument would be to note that the population sidebar lists 628K people in Heortland.  Malkonwal has 300K, the Hendriki have 273K, the three counties 52K giving a total of 625K.  Not conclusive as to the nature of the Marcher County people (the 5K of Refugee are still God Forgotten) but culturally Heortlander rather than God Forgotten seems a safer bet.

I think the Knight Fort in the Nomad Gods is an innovation to represent a starting place for the Holy Country and that the actual knight forts are further southwest off the map.

I think the reason there are no dragonewts in Pamaltela is that Bolongo killed the Dragon Langamul so all they have are spirits instead.