So I realized ereyesterday that the reason The Six Duchies sounded familiar to me when I was first reading ROTE was because of the Webtoon Heir's Game (by the great artist @suspucomics), but I wasn't sure. So I started reading it again "just until I can see if it's also called six duchies in the Webtoon" and around 20 episodes in it turned out to be The Four Duchies. So I was like "wow weird coincidence so cool that two of my favorite stories have similar settings in both government system and name". And then I just got to a Q&A episode near the end (Because of course I ended up rereading the whole series in three days again it's too good not to) and Suspu (the author) CITED ROBIN HOBB AS A MAIN INSPIRATION. I literally shouted "I KNEW IT I KNEW IT" and probably scared my dog. It's so cool that a story that affected me so deeply was inspired by yet another story that would go on to affect me.
