As someone that took 4 ranks of knowledge (Kirborg), (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=672341) and a bard, I am more than happy making the synergy work with perform!  I'll have to change that knowledge qualifier to something more broad.<br/><br/>I will say that the "personalities" part of the skill as written is the part that covers the Gather Information synergy.  It is one thing to have general knowledge of your neighbors, their names, professions, and public personas.  It is another thing indeed, and worth precious skill points, to know something about the skeletons in their closets or secret activities.  Is so-and-so really having an affair with whats-her-name?  What was Joe Bishop doing digging in his garden at midnight?  Is John Druel<em>really</em>Sebastian's father? Why did Tark Stonecutter need twice as much stone as usual when he built the foundations for the temple of Pelor?  These little tidbits of personal knowledge can be used, either bluntly or subtly, to leverage more such knowledge.<br/><br/><hr/>I'm happy with her family being tenants.  Perhaps they rent the farm from from Druel, but own some orchard land of their own and have aspirations of someday owning their own place.  This also gives Hugo and perhaps Sebastian an excuse to come around to bother the pretty young woman, in Hugo's case under the guise of collecting the rent.  Sebastian might be more open in his motives.  Perhaps there's even something of a rivalry for her affections between the brothers...