[hnchrist3]

Yeah, but at 800/1000 gold a pop? I spend that on providence defense and not castles. The problem with castles are they are transient: yours today, someone else's tomorrow. Then you have to bother with a siege to get it back. Just ugly all around.

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Oh, one of the things I forgot to say is that Ermor's new/original death rate pretty much makes it impossible to have a blood economy. Kind of tough to pull virgins out of a population zero province.