Caits and Zealous welcome back. You are both accepted. greenleafe is also accepted. You can all post in the character tab. 

Still working on those updates to the setting information. For now you can just picture Nightsguard as the love child of the Night's Watch and the Grey Wardens. 

Applications are open forever but I need at least one more to start. 

Raven, basically what LeeRoy said. The Imperium is spread all over Southern Europa and the North Alkebulan. The way the Europan system works is that large swaths of the country are allocated to one Great House who in turn have a hierarchy of bannermen of descending importance beneath them and they along with the Dragon Families swear allegiance to the Emperor.