[quote=@ClocktowerEchos]
[@TheRedWatcher] Alright, I would suggest a slight editing of your background to make more reference to House Vyjapult since if the King directly contacted and brought you into the kingdom, they'd most likely make you directly crown vassals because of the silver. It could be that House Vyjapult, who had more exprience in the mountains than the troops of the crownlands, managed to send messengers and peacefully brought you into the fold with the promise of stopping the very greedy then-king from just taking all the silver his men could load on to a cart.

The other issue is House Echo claiming to be a Great House through the already existing Great House of Vyjapult but I have a possible explanation since normally Great Houses are not vassals of anyone but the King. One of the clauses in the agreement that brought them into the kingdom was that they would be "elevated to the same status as House Vyjapult", not really knowing they were a great house or what that even was. Knowing this, the Vyjapults agreed since they knew that in your isolation from the politics of the kingdom, you wouldn't really know how to press your privileges and rites as a Great House or that you even could. Plus it seems that Merta specifically wouldn't care for that stuff even if he knew the details. Plus your silver wealth would likely have played a part in your recognition.

Otherwise, I can't spot anything that really jumps at me and so I declare you Duke Merta of House Echo, Lord of the Frozen Tears! Try not to kill too many zealous preachers who go galivanting into your mountains for gods know what reason and be active in the story, even if you are an otherwise isolated people.
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Will do. BC and I were still working all of those sort of background stuff out, its why I hadn't added it, but I will. 

And Awesome. We House of Echo do not kill people, the Deities hands take them.