Ugh, sorry for the wait.  Girlfriend came to visit for the weekend and now that she's back home I find myself buried under a pile of knowledge rolls that require me to make up a bunch of lore and factions off the top of my head...  I need a bit more time to work all this out.<br/><br/>Screw it, this is what I've got and what I'm providing for this month's of knowledge checks.  I'm certain if I keep pressing it, I'll get frustrated and begin to view this RP as work rather than fun, which will not be good in the long term.<br/><br/><strong>Gilbert's Findings:</strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u">Soil Sampling:</span><br/>Despite travelling to various locations in search for suitable clays for brick making, your hunt does not yield the results you hoped for.  In all the locations you searched in and around Garados, the soil consists primarily of rocky layers that makes it very difficult to dig further thana few feet with nothing but yourself and a shovel.  You surmise that it would be far too much effort extracting clay locally only to yield very little quality material that would largely be an inefficient process for producing bricks of any significant quantity.  However, that is not to say your hunt went entirely without results in that you identified the topsoil to the southeastern portion of the village to be very rich with minerals and nutrients making it ideal for raising crops.  Furthermore, you are also confident that this rocky upper layers of subsurface soil would be capable of serving as an adequate foundation for stone siege walls should there ever come a need for it.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">First K:Nobility (House Duresh)</span><br/>-High Lord Brencis Duresh (unwed)<br/>-Brencis is a very ambitious man whose actions are guided by self gain more so than ethics and morality.  To him it is all about the ends that justify the means, and for him those ends are his aspiration for more power.  While he comes off as a cool and collected individual, there are countless rumors in abundance claiming him to be petulant, petty, arrogant, violent, and possibly mad.  Though there is no direct evidence supporting this and nobody dares speak of it to his face, the poverty and squalor among both commoner and slave is a good indicator that his concern for the lives of his people are limited to how much wealth they can generate for him.<br/> -Brencis has one heir, a son by the name of Brencis Duresh Minorus whose upbringing has set him on the path to follow in his father's footsteps in both thought and deed.  There is only one surviving sibling to High Lord Duresh, a sister by the name of Doratea who is married to the High Lord of Somervale.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Second K:Nobility (House Somervale)</span><br/>-High Lord Rawkus and High Lady Doratea Somer<br/>-Rawkus is passionate, abrasive, and steadfast in his duties to his people.  He is a military leader through and through, having little love for politics and is not the sort to honey his words for the sake of being socially proper.  There is no denying the love his people have for him, knowing that their lord would be at the front lines and armed for combat against any foe who threatened them.  Every physically capable male in Somervale is required to spend two years serving in their nation's legion as an enlisted soldier and is one of the only places women are welcomed as soldiers.  This effectively makes nearly every citizen of Somervale a trained militiaman capable of wielding a blade in the name of their homeland.  However, Rawkus is very isolationistic in mind and is never fond of the idea of sending his troops out of his territory.<br/>-Doratea  is the social and political half that her husband is not.  Very proper, elegant, and one of the more beloved and respected of the High Ladies.<br/>-Maximus Somer has largely been kept out of the public eye by his mother.  Little is known about him apart from the fact that he is a capable soldier and leader, favoring mind and tactics over brute strength and numbers.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">First K:Local (Doroga)</span><br/>Doroga is a small trading port with a modest town guard but no military force to speak of, but has the potential to make a good economic ally.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Second K:Local (N/A)</span><br/>You do not know of any other organizations or groups in the area.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">First K:Religion (Hand of Iomedae)</span><br/>A group that emerged during the height of the war when demons began assuming human disguises in the interest of sabotage and assassinations.  These warriors largely consist of Inquisitors who have a knack for sensing those who possess abyssal blood and dedicate their lives to eradicating any and all who possess infernal lineage.  Many cities have a unit of such warriors regularly patrolling their streets to slay any foul demons who still lurk among them and refusing to acknowledge that tieflings are any different from their demonic forbearers. <br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">First K:Nature (Fey)</span><br/>Fey creatures have become entirely unorganized since the war that ravaged their homes and sent them scattering.  Little is known of where the various influential and powerful Fey now reside and all of which is largely speculation.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Second K:Nature (Order of Gozreh)</span><br/>A hermetic Druidic order known as the Order of Gozreh  are known to exist and believed to be helping the Fey restore the war torn wilderness and purge what minor demonic presences remain in hiding.  They have little interest in associating with those who are outside their order and do their best to remain outside of the public eye.<br/></div></div>