[@Flagg] You may want to update the description of the Shriekers under the Beastkin types - it ends rather suddenly.
 
I am working on a NS. 

EDIT: Also, I would like to know something more of these Priest-Smiths, mainly the 'Smith' part and their functional role in the Salished Empire. I am thinking potentially about using one, having noticed his orders' slipping control and thus having fled prematurely with the intention of forming his own 'nation' (unless of course you won't allow this, in which case I will pursue an alternative).