Yes, Rare, you can join. Anyone can join when there is space on the map.

Alright, gorgenmast and everybody else. You can PM me your house concepts and I'll probably allow them. Feel free to be creative with names, history, characters, except I dictate these houses' actions and their personalities and opinions of their suzerains.

I'll have to cut back on putting in coats of arms and portraits, but the Affadyqid's vassals are done.

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The glorious and wealthy house of Hurtai is one subject for songs be sung; these hardy corsairs landed on the Sestani coast several decades afore, carving out a rich piece of land for themselves from another and plundering it till there was almost nothing left. Fierce retribution came upon the proud pirate-king Kacheeba, as he was chased down and arrested. 

He had been forced to pay back all he could, before his execution. His eldest son, however, Murad the Shark, offered Sultan of Affadyqid to betray the location of all the pirate islands along with the pirate-backing merchant guilds in the Sultanate if he was given vassalage, landed title, and a fief to govern. He did his job splendidly, winning back prestige of his family and settling down in the plains.

Alas, he suddenly died of an illness, childless. His younger brother had become head of the Hurtai, and in an instant converted to Ularism. He's been fervently religious ever since, but has done nothing of note aside from donating money to mosques and offering patronage to holy men.

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Karayas are a family of minor nobles, yet their names seem to be written in every contract, every pact. That is because they are in fact a conglomerate of merchant families. Their lands have always been a haven for trade and their keep a place for a rendezvous. The clan of Karaya, while providing substantial financial contributions for the greater good of your realm, as well as the most of their elite levies, aren't always seen to be supporting you in terms of diplomacy with merchant guilds.

Abdul Karaya is a thin, gaunt man. He is of pale skin even in the punishing suns of Astieb, and his passionless eyes are bleak, his face always unreadable. He has been known as a patient, temperate, and diligent man. His uncles however are old, calvous men who amuse others at feasts with tales of drunken orgies and other such filth. Abdul has set his sights on marrying into the Affadyqid family, however. Time will tell what shall happen.