@Old Contemptable
There once was a fair land called the Duchy of Old Glory. It was a magical land, far more lovely than the Earldoms of Minifigs or Essex.
Then the Arch Duke created the new Duchy of Battle Honours, and it was lovely too.
But because of complex familial interrelationships both claimed the Bishopric of ACW. After much discussion it was decided that a new Duchy of Old Glory would be created, containing an Earldom of Battle Honours, the Markgraf of Quality Casting and all lands south of the 18mm demarcation.
The original Duchy would have all lands north of the 24mm demarcation, including the shipyards of Merrimack, the principality of Blue Moon, Luxembourg, the islands of Rugen and Stettin, and a player to be named later.
The relationship with Blue Moon would later draw in, by marriage, the Province of Sash and Saber.
Think of the Old Glory's as divergent branches of the Bourbon family. Ga, Pa, UK and Michigan. They're interrelated, there is a certain resemblance, esp around the eyes, but they tend to chafe when people blur the boundaries.
Only the original Old Glory attends the Grand Balls (cons) anymore. Battle Honours used to but they decided they were too cool for school. Actually, it got to be too far and too $$$.
This was the lineage related to me by La Comptesse de la Hors'hockie, in her salon in the fashionable arrondisement of Lampeter.
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