No, the issue to me is players on those islands have to deal with this random transplant that is difficult to place IC. I don't know the geography of EI very well but a new realm in Gelene? There was history there. There was a story. It took us months originally to take and hold Gelene. Allowing a new realm to just bam spring up feels so wrong to me.
It happens to be where a load of refugees landed and they got inside the city before the hordes noticed them. It's a realm simply because it has a name, it's certainly not a secure and safe one. That old realm was lost to the monsters, this new one is trying to be reclaimed from them by a bunch of nobles who just found themselves there when they landed in their new home...
