It was one of those irregularities that crops up when the human need for straight lines on maps comes into conflict with actual physical reality, with an added dash of lawyers getting involved.
The lake was part of the Kingdom, but the island inside the lake was part of the Empire next to it.
This became a humorous little titbit of information, a bit of trivia to be shared over mead and cheese.
And then they discovered The Stones on the island. And suddenly it became the most important dispute in history.
Until the Commonwealth ran over both of them.
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