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Canon is a bit more flexible in The Wandering Stars anyway. Cabinda's status is strongly tied to Fane too, and what they do there depends on how Will and the Stellae have interacted with them. I imagine Fane are very interested in Cabinda and Congo though, given the huge wealth of resources in both countries and the relative weakness of the governments, especially in Congo.

For the record, when I wrote this branch, I decided that Cabinda included the Angolan exclave of Cabinda (or Portuguese Congo) and the DRC provinces of Kongo Central and Kinshasa. That gave me an opportunity to have tensions between the formerly Belgian and formely Portuguese bits of the country - and why I make a big deal of which language the characters are speaking. Even though I guess in real life they'd use local ones. I haven't touched the north of the country