Provinces of the Great Kingdom

[Rafael]

I am just making sure that I am not stepping on your toes. Perhaps I am overly careful, but I figured that would not hurt.

Nah, thanks, man. I appreciate your kindness with this, also because the approach to the setting was always a source of argument between me and you. - But no worries, the important thing is that we keep the dice rolling.

My only goal with the new game is to always have a continuing Blackmoor game going, and one that needs less management,
and is more open than a PBP. I think the LFC can accomplish that, because of the approach that we - together - took earlier.
But that approach was for a distinct purpose that is now sort of achieved. So, yay, renovation!

Sorry for being that cryptic; spent most of these days writing. Kind of out of fuel right now.

Yep, I think this was an important step towards where we are progressing. Ideas can be borrowed between the continuities, but we are developing two separate (or three even) continuities allowing other DMs to borrow and use whatever ideas they want for their own home campaigns.

Sure, we have a very good thing going on. - Like, to be quite frank, the work I am putting into this seems more than it actually is;
I am just happy to create something that keeps our old group of people connected. The extra buzz is really just a nice bonus.
I don't plan to write any novelesque tomes of fandom any more either: If the game warrants a longer continuation, I'll be putting out one lore piece for BM,
like, every four to six months, but not more. Game sessions, I might do more often, though - always provided that people are interested. - Already rolled out your character, hmmmm?

I too, do not know how East European I will make this whole thing, but "Habsburg" could be one way to involve both East European and old imperial multicultural flavours.

The "Byzantine Empire" appears to be remotely canonical; I think I will largely ignore that side, as well, simply because the linguistic union of the setting is more important:
We have proto-Persians, and proto-Saxons/-vikings in the same setting already; let's not overload it.

BTW, where did the name Palmyra first appear?

Palmyra is a term I used when I did the Irilian campaign and was not sure how the handling of the BM license would go:
Had somebody piqued up the license, then, instead of returning with an "official" sequel to the LFC, we would have gone there, on an independent server.
- Not because of you, or whatever, but because I am not willing to work for free on something that helps others to sell their books. At least not like we did.

(FTR, me reactivating the LFC has to do a lot with the Blackmoor license not being anywhere near of being revived.)

The term itself is biblical, IIRC. Palmyra is a city in the biblical land of Zenobia. So, just a tongue-in-cheek, really.