Yes, but making the new districts largely nonviable as nation-states in their own right does not follow and indeed likely precludes having the federal government be based on a collection of technically co-equal, sovereign nation-states. My mc favours a rather stronger union government then such a seemingly confederate model would allow for.
Again, yes, also remember the whole post-war European project started with the Coal and Steel community whose entire aim was to interconnect and try to decentralise these industries in order to make countries surreptitiously using it for re-armament, as (Weimar) Germany had done nearly impossible. But if you look at the EU (and overlook some of the states still shielding and subsidizing their own technically inefficient industries, France, cough, cough) you’ll see that while we do trade basic resources considerations of efficiency have cost my country most of its heavy industry in order to specialize in mechanised farming, some high-tech industries and a large (petro)chemical industry. We are now nearly wholly dependent on Germany for some of our heavy industry needs. Of course due to global (free) trade the whole world is now much more interconnected and interdependent and this goes for the EU in particular. Which does not mean it is necessarily a good idea for the former Hegemony and Shayard in particular at this time.
That’s interesting. I got the impression from Horion that he was a rather absurd eccentric in the eyes of the Sharadyne nobility. Is he the leader of siad faction or is Leaguer something other than the Horion ideology some type of federation between Contes?
I think the Leaguer faction may be a very small one that Horion is the (informal) leader of and is mostly centered on those of his social circle he could convince to the cause, for now. Horion certainly is crafty and persuasive, maybe craftier and more insidious then my mc gave him credit for initially. Particularly if he faked his death by using the mc and their band as scape-goats and is lauging his ass of in Nyral or something right about now.
This seems most likely given her habit of disposing of them by Harrowing once she begins to grow tired of them. Can’t really imagine her as much of a romantic.
Shapechangers. If nothing else, I assume @Havenstone added the ‘ab’ prefix to mean ‘not’ (abnormal means not normal)…so an Abhuman would imply not human.
Sexually, yes. If romantically, well that didn’t stop her from sending scores of helots to the Harvester.
Everything about the whole genderflipping in this series is tied to Breden, can be annoying I know. My guess is that if Teren is the same sex as Breden then the heir is the opposite again, like Simon/Suzanne.
So if you want a gay mc then without modding the game you need to make Breden male, which means you’d end up with Suzanne and princess nippletwister.
Is your Breden female? Cause I think they’re the opposite sex of Breden, but if so, yes, it’ll be Prince Nippletwister in your game. In any case you’d need to wait a couple more years for the third game to even meet them in any case.
Yeah… Just realized that I can’t go after Simon if I didn’t make Breden female. XD
Many things happen in between that I wasn’t able to play XoR even though I bought it when it was released. Now that I have time, I could finally start my playthrough.
Yep, an eternal disappointment Simon is way cooler then Suzanne. Making Breden female isn’t even the worst of that deal, that would be the fact that to romance Simon as a gay romance you need for your character to be attracted to women, though not necessarily Breden (for long anyway) and thus bisexual.
It might be the same deal with Prince(ss) nippletwister that in order to get them as a gay or lesbian “romance” (again much like with Calea not seeing the romance there, since provincial helots would be less than filth to them) you have to have a bisexual mc (or mod your game).
A confederate or EU-like league of equal and sovereign nations, at least in theory.
Horion’s master plan seems to be to unite the four (five if Karagond itself is to become independent again too) nations of the former Hegemony into it and make them into an economic and maybe military union, albeit one with a very weak center post-Hegemony.
Making Breden female isn’t even the worst of that deal, that would be the fact that to romance Simon as a gay romance you need for your character to be attracted to women, though not necessarily Breden (for long anyway) and thus bisexual. 
