: Hold up! Where did you get this information? I have
: always thought that Madrical was one of the Free Citys
: before it was sacked, and that Alric only made it
: capital after the war. I am not saying you are wrong,
: just that that conflicts with every bit of evidence
: (which addmitadly is not much) I have.
: That Covenant was the old capital makes most sence to me
: because of the snips of history we have. A war of
: Sessesion fought around the city. Muariack ruled from
: Covinent and it makes perfect sence that he would do
: so from the original capital, because that is where
: the buerocracy would have been centered.
: I am mainly interested in this because I find the
: politcal/social issues of the light ages very
: intreging. So if you are right about this, it will
: change things greatly.
I believe Madrigal was the original capital because GURPS said so. killing duck thinks the Myth games show that GURPS is wrong, and I was simply pointing out that nowhere do the games say what the capital is--both Madrigal and Covenant are simply spoken of as "cities" by both the narrator and the manual.
If you don't believe GURPS, it's understandable that you would think Covenant was more likely to be the capital. But doesn't Alric's choosing Madrigal suggest that it was the capital in the first place? Both cities were sacked by the Dark, so he could have rebuilt either as the capital with equal difficulty; although he had lived in Madrigal with the Nine, he'd grown up in Covenant. It seems to me that its history of being the capital was the key factor in his decision to reign from Madrigal.
I'd also point out, as a minor bit of supporting evidence, that when the Legion are approaching Madrigal they're on the "King's Highway."
But basically, for me, it comes down to: GURPS says so, and the games don't disagree.
--SiliconDream
