The place colloquially known as the Manyeo-ui Sup was, officially, Ma-ryeong-rim. It lay in the northwest of Yeong-ju, a sprawling region under the jurisdiction of a northern viscount.
‘Though no one truly governs it.’
For any lord, a forest was an invaluable resource, a source of both firewood and game. Most nobles who possessed such territory employed rangers to manage and protect it. Yet half of Ma-ryeong-rim was all but abandoned, left to
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