[@Oraculum]

An excellent post! I just have to give some compliments to your writing too, friend.

While I'm here I'll give everyone an update on my own status too. I have a post well underway and Lauder's in there with Razzak making his first appearance too. I thought we were getting close to finished and just had some dialogue left to iron out, but it might be a bit longer yet because I think I'll be making some heavy revisions to bring my depiction of things more in line with your worldbuilding. I'll have to make the weather nastier, all the ghouls more inhuman, and everything just that much more unnatural and grotesque or it just won't fit in with the theme.