Thread:Juraj103/@comment-33838472-20181101010904/@comment-24448826-20190108190219

Hi there Ingvar and happy new year too you as well!

To the matter: For me, there's no doubt about Metinna's status within the Empire being on par with the one Ebbing has because Andrzej Sapkowski himself describes Metinna as a "kingdom, vassal of Nilfgaard, with apparent autonomy" in his alphabet. As I currently understand it, the Kingdom of Metinna and the Kingdom of Maecht are each ruled by their respective monarchs and, in appearance, independent. However, both of them have to pay tributes/taxes/levy + soldiers to their Palatine/Praefect who operates the Province of Metinna.

Also I think that by titling Caldwell as Palatine CDPR wanted to fix the lore-breaking issue with how Angren is depicted on their maps (which is to say, much larger than described in the books). Maybe the Palatinate of Angren contains Angren, Riverdell and Southern Dol Angra?