There's a lot more information in the [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/79162-fatal-souls/ooc]OOC thread[/url], btw.

I'll get to making a regional map if I'm not clear enough! =)

A magical user might certainly be tricky in the plotline since said magic isn't common in the region where most of the plots are going down in (Orlands) and I don't have comprehensive descriptions of how Atularis works; though it is likely and possible someone from Atularis could be traveling in Orlandis for a variety of reasons. 

As for Houses- there are GM linear events but outside of that the sub-plots, development, recent history, members, council, etc. are all up to the prospective players within reason. I haven't scripted too much and tried to make a world that is a playground; though most of that playground that is finished is Orlandis- the reigon the maps depict.