[@TheRedWatcher] Two quick questions.

1. How long ago was the Frozen Tears incorporated into the kingdom? This is more of me asking for a clarification, I don't need a specific time just something general, but the modern shape of the kingdom has been in place for about a thousand years now. My current understanding is that they've always lived there but because they're isolated by rough terrain and weather and because people didn't think they were anything more than just cold mountains, you weren't really "discovered" until more recently when all of the stuff happened.

2. What is your relation to House Vyjapult? Are they directly sworn to them? Or are they sworn to someone else who in turn is sworn to Vyjapult? Basically where are they on the pecking order? 

Speaking of which, this is a more general thing I was going to add properly somewhere but I'll put it here for now. The social order of Adanion go:

[quote]King > Archduke > Duke > Count > Viscount & Knights > Smallfolk/Commoners

Pretty self explanatory, the reason that Viscount and Knight are at the same rank is because they're the two sides of a coin. Knights are the lowest rank of nobility, granted through acts of valor in combat and being knighted while Viscounts are the lowest rank of nobility given to people who have shown exceptional skill in management, leadership or administration in their local area. Basically they're the military and civilian title of the same rank. Uniquely, the rank of Viscount/Knight isn't hereditary and each new generation must be "confirmed" for the family to keep the title (happens more commonly among Knights) and the rank also doesn't usually give land (Landed Knights and Landed Viscounts do exist tho.)

The Great Houses are always Archdukes or especially powerful Dukes and while the path above is typically followed, there are also plenty of cases of Counts sworn directly to Archdukes or Dukes as the direct vassal of the King. 

The term "lesser noble" is used to describe anyone who is a Count or Viscount/Knight as they have rulership of a fraction of the land that a duke or archduke does. Thus some of them have joined in with the Choir sort of out of revenge against the "upper nobles".[/quote]