"the (ill-advised) Ice Age"
I personally think the Ice Age was a fine idea, but it was lacking in how it was carried out.
It never put enough pressure on anything to substantially change the island politics. It seems like the density was calculated on nobles/region, but left out the fact that most nobles had no interest in being lords and instead were stacking themselves in cities. Without forcing realms tightly against one another to the point where there weren't enough estates for all the knights, nothing much was going to dramatically change.
You clipped Atamara's fingernails when you needed to amputate at the elbows.
