Technically, I pick it for you. That's the way things work in Shireroth's feudal system - the power of the Dukes over their Duchies is next to only the Kaiser, the Landsraad and the Ministries. However, the way it actually has worked since New Feudalism died is that every Duchy has essentially been a smorgasbord - you're given a selection of Counties and whichever you pick is then decreed as yours by your Duke.
Now the problem with Straylight in this system is that culturally, it's not really appropriate for me to have a whole bunch of Counties. The Straylightian Ducal government uses a very hands-off approach to managing the various citystates, and is basically as small as possible (*). Except for Shyriath, the Counts are *not* culturally chosen and employed by the citystates, they're chosen by the Ducal government. They're more like governors than mayors. Thus, I can't accept having a separate County for every sanct - the Ducal government prefers to spend its resources on... more important things.
As it is, so far I've given people Counties that span a single sanct, based on what I believe they would be happiest with. I'd let you choose but I'm having problems pulling my scattered ideas together into coherent, understandable wholes, so I haven't actually been able to write articles on most of the sancts (though there are a
few). There's no reason for Straylightian Counties to only span one sanct, BTW, it's just that nobody's asked for more so far.
- Icebreaker got Discontinuity, because he's the one I talk with the most about developing Straylight - it was appropriate to give him the most important sanct
- Shyriath got Sunderspray because he brought it with him
- Liam's been promised Blavatsky, because it has magic. Granted, it's probably not the kind of magic that he's used to... or then it might be... it kind of depends, considering I haven't yet quite figured out *what* kind of magic it has
- you can pick whichever sanct you like, but the one I'm guessing you might like the most is Backbone Site, because it has... well, it has technology and computer science, though so has the rest of Straylight, but Backbone Site has it in a more unique way. You'll see
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(*) For instance, I'm still working on a system of taxation - nothing real-world, just cultural - that would go together with... er... the system of currency that I'm working on...
No-one should be without a parasol, Sirocco.
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