Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20141010002549/@comment-24891101-20141012235652

I mentioned this upthread. That Mountain Glenn was relatively recent means that Vale is absolutely huge. We're talking about a megaregion, historically hundreds of villages and dozens of towns which fused into cities and metropoleis, which further grew into a megalopolis, all behind a defensive perimeter. To call Vale a city is drastically understating things; it's larger than many countries on Earth. This idea of Vale being a megalopolis squares well with the apparent size of Vale on the world map; given that Remnant has gravity comparable to Earth's, either the planet is really small or Vale is enormous. This solves the kingdom/city ambiguity, too: each kingdom is composed of the capital, and a number of much smaller citadels, as well as numerous  transient towns, which occasionally are destroyed.