Not strictly land reform, but a sea route between Warmanoras and Sovonoval would be good. That would inject a little more dynamism in the south. In the past when Alowca was an independent realm, it was boxed in. One way in and one way out. Once upon a time, Giblot was similar and the result was bridges in Briarull and Helsera to give more options and make things a little more dynamic. Could have the same down there. It would mean Alowca was less of a remote outpost to reach for hostile realms and if ever there is an independent Alowca again, you have potentially a much more viable realm. Maybe nothing will ever happen even with a sea route, but at least put in a little something to get mischievous minds wondering! ;-)
I like the sound of a stronghold in Drenga. It always was a notoriously hard region to keep hold of for Giblot. It's like it has its own independent spirit. It would also be nice to give Minas Thalion somewhere to latch on to ;-) Anything to maintain a little Colonies diversity. At the moment we are seriously looking at just three realms controlling all the cities on the Colonies. We're all in danger of becoming victims of our own success.
Just trying to figure out the new regions:
Arak Castle and The Arakir are merged.
Hulaferd splits in two.
Giblot splits in two.
Corali Forest/Nidalery splits in two. (Or they each had a bit carved off them for a new region. Either or.)
Steepglades splits in two. (At first I too thought the new region was split by a river but actually, it's fully connected by land and just misses the river. Seems like it makes it slightly longer to go round into the old Giblot heartlands and/or for armies marching out of Giblot to go and put the Assassins back down to three regions, hehe)
It actually does all look like a very interesting change. My only suggested change to the draft (other than the sea route!) is to split Adaria in two as well. Then you will have at least two regions distance between every city/stronghold on the continent. The distance between Lukon/Portion seems to be the only remaining anomaly on that count.
Edit: On further inspection, it looks harder to make a 'natural' geographical division in Adaria compared to all the other regions. Even so, that little bit just, just above Lukon over the river could be closed off as a small region and called the Glades of something or other. It looks vaguely flowery there anyway.
