[quote=@BCTheEntity]
Looking at what Aristo has to say, it occurs to me that perhaps I've been approaching the Ogre Kingdoms in an over-literal fashion. So, there will probably be changes to that in the near future, though I need to figure out what changes exactly first.
[/quote] BTW do you start where the canonical Ogre Kingdom was?
IIRC that's further than the Dark Lands so my faction might be the most frequent contact you get.

Also since I pick Dark Lands I wonder what culture my human population would get.
Kazars? Russ?
It's basically the territory past the equivalent of the IRL Ural Mountains.