Many talented scholars and historians will tell you that nations and kingdoms are born of the imagination -- false boundaries that are created to divide us from others. In some ways they are right, and yet not so, for are kingdoms not real enough to kill for? Do men not die fighting for these falsities, these lies? How many have gone to war for "king and country?" Shall we comfort the widows with the thought that her husband died fighting for an imaginary kingdom? No, kingdoms are quite real in this regard. Should the gods desire to interfere in our world, they shall begin by setting entire peoples against each other. The fierce loyalty of the laymen to their kings and nobles and emperors and other titled men is a dangerous tool wielded by the masters of the world. I therefore believe that it is essential to understanding these entities in order to truly understand why the world is the way it is. I know that I, a lowly druid, am certainly no god, nor even so intelligent as a dragon or even as some of my contemporaries, but even I can realize that this idea of the "kingdom" is the central issue of our time. I wonder whether forging Ultor into one singular nation would end strife, or whether we should simply find other divisions to kill each other over...