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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2283743" data-attributes="member: 9254">Which goes back to my "valley of the HLC" concept.  A sizeable number of evil HLCs will either take over the entire country or be driven out to take over a smaller chunk of land.  Many good HLCs will be faced with the similar circumstances (stop an evil ruler or be driven away by lack of trust).  High level casters often retreat to isolated areas (islands, mountain tops, caves, glaciers, etc) just so they don't have to deal with the fear and coercion.  I have a few larger kindgoms but one has an "uncorruptable" HLC (silver dragon) and the other is LN/LE with rule by the strong as the norm (Emperors train their offspring to be HLCs so they can keep the family tradition alive).  Most of the rest are generally city-states with a thoroughly dominated countryside.   Several cities are ruled by wizard guilds or priestly councils.</blockquote>