I was looking for merchant keep quest and i found this I remember back in the day why no realm wanted all 6 relics this is why.

EXPLANATION OF FRONTIER GUARD CHANGES

To alleviate some of the confusion brought on by the guard changes in 1.49, here's an explanation of how the system works.

Each home Outpost (frontier keep), when "owned" by the home realm, controls a contingent of guards at each Relic Keep. For example, if the forces of Albion control the Albion Outpost Caer Benowyc, a number of guards representing Caer Benowyc will appear at the Relic Keeps in the Albion frontier. The number of "Relic Guards" these outposts spawns depends on the location of the outpost - the number is either 2,3, or 4 guards. These are referred to as "Outpost relic guards", and are distinguished from normal guards at the relics by being higher level and having the name of the "controlling" Outpost keep over their heads.

However, the actual number of "Outpost Relic Guards" at the relic keep is modified by two factors: Outposts owned and Relics owned.

Relics owned:

Outpost Relic Guards are reduced by 25% for every relic over 2 owned by a Realm.

3 relics owned = 75% frontier keep relic guards
4 relics owned = 50% frontier keep relic guards
5 relics owned = 25% frontier keep relic guards
6 relics owned = 0% frontier keep relic guards

Outposts Owned

When an Outpost is captured by the enemy, the guards it controls are not spawned at the relic keeps.
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I remember that a certain amout of relic gaurds came from other home keeps that realm owned. So if say ALb took all of hibs other keeps the gaurds at relic keeps would be nill since they have 6 relics.... mybe not Nill but only a few.

Some albs and I had a fun time taking so many keeps... too bad we didn't have enough people to get some relics back.

But i will settle for 14 keeps for Albion, 2 for midgard, and 5 for hibernia.

Sorry my net went down that night, I was BG leader of that raid too bad I didn't get to see its success =)