<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=241412.msg11927991#msg11927991">Quote from: Cassandra LeMay on 25-12-2015, 17:54:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The village population is split into several groups along historical and religious lines. There are the old villagers who were here when the place was still called Goodford, the new settlers who arrived in two waves (the first wave about 10-12 years ago, the second about 5 years ago), and the followers of the baroness, most of whom arrived when she did, but tended to keep themselves a bit aparts from the villagers initially. Along religious lines you have followers of Pelor (who has a small chapel in the center of the village that goes back to the early days of settlement), followers of Ehlonna (many of the farmers, but also some village folk), and followers of the Norse gods (a religion the baroness brought with her). (A few people worship other gods, but not in an organized fashion with adepts or clerics leading any church services.)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I have some questions about this.  You mention waves of settlement.  Where did the settlers come from, and does the origin vary between the original settlers, each of the two waves, and the Baroness's personal following?<br/>I'm thinking Appolonia and her father arrived in one of these waves (not sure if it was 5 or 10 years ago) after her mother and her two younger siblings died.  Micah Grover married a local girl and has two very young children from this second marriage.<br/><br/>Part of what I'm thinking is that in Late Medieval Europe leading into the Renaissance there was a surprising amount of geographical migration among the rising population recovering from the Black Death.  Lords looking to expand into the wilderness would often recruit or conscript peasantry to follow them to claim or reclaim lands lost in prior generations when the population plummeted.<br/><br/>Also, Noble families that gained foreign lands either diplomatically, financially, through war or by marriage would often 'persuade' some of their peasants to relocate to the new holdings in order to convert the population to their language and beliefs.  Often through villeiny, or the granting of tenant lands.  Some of the feudal terms granted these farmers almost amounted to yeomanry, or free holdings in all but name.  Possibly even in name after certain conditions were met.  This all predates the Homesteading of the American West by centuries, but there were a lot of parallels in the systems.<br/><br/>Of course, at times populations were relocated by force or displaced by war or natural catastrophe.<br/><br/>Were any such systems employed to recruit or conscript the folk that made up the recent "waves" that came to Kirborg?<br/><hr/>edit:<br/>Also, is the art of distillation known?  Or is all alcohol simply brewed or fermented, possibly with freeze concentration to produce applejack or ice beer?