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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Agents doing what? Realistically the powerful landowners need an urban center as a market for their produce and a place from which to buy the luxuries that make being rich worthwhile. They aren't going to be the enemies of the city. They'll own the core of it because they're the ones with the capital to buy the present and future prime city real estate. If you were to look at the major land owners of prime commercial and residential real estate in Central London, the top dozen players are people like the Duke of Westminster, and Baroness Howard De Langford. Aristocratic families who rode the wave of modernization.
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The landowning elites of 18th century England and France saw their respective capitals as their tool. The elites of Emain Ablach are aware of both how cities can benefit them as well as how cities can challenge their power. The powerful landowning families want to control not destroy the city of Cashel.
Meanwhile the religious leaders also understand the upside of cities for them as well as the threats to their dominance. Their answers are different from the landowner elites. Unlike 18th century England or France, the religious leaders aren't subordinate to either the state or the landowning elites. The religious leaders and the landowning elites are both allies and rivals.