<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=241802.msg11965149#msg11965149">Quote from: yesiroleplay on 07-01-2016, 15:42:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">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/>...<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?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'd day the first wave (ca. 10 years ago) was a mix of conscription and recruitment. The second large wave (5 years ago). About 5-6 years ago there was a pretty large incursion of humanoids into the northern frontier baronies, streaming down from the hills and mountains that form the northern border of the frontier (goblins and hobgoblins, but also a bunch of ogres and even a few hill giants and ettins). While that invasion was eventually beaten back, it did displace quite a few people from the area around the source of the river Cheydash.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=241802.msg11965149#msg11965149">Quote from: yesiroleplay on 07-01-2016, 15:42:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">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?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Distillation is known and used. Brandy is rare, but spirits made from grain (schnapps, vodka, etc.) are common, if somewhat expensive. Fermenatation is used for making drinks from fruits, but the local speciality (sloe schnapps) is actually made by maceration, i.e. just soaking the pricked berries in strong alcohol. (I'm no experrt, but I think maceration is used with fruits that have a low sugar content and therefore don't lend themselves to fermentation.)