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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9008770" data-attributes="member: 6750306">I've now come up with the family names of the fourteen extended families that compose the Swamptown Clan of the Firstfolk*, the people living in The Great Black Swamp... Most of them contain somewhere between ten to thirty members including spouses and children.Although most of the families live in the swamp in large family compounds built on a handful of small clusters of dry land, the place known as Swamptown is built on the eastern shores of the Swamp and consists of the Swamptown Trading Post (run by the Tolvanderr family) and the various family homes of three of the other families. (Haven't decided which ones yet.)(Most of the families also have relatives living and working in the nearby town of End-Of-The-Line ten miles away, and branches of the Verganderr family run the local dry goods store and apothecary there. A fifteenth family, the Wickermans, originally from one of the Firstfolk wagon clans to the east, has also married into the Swamptown clan, but they live solely on a horse farm outside of End-Of-The-Line and operate the local stables.)The Swamptown Families Verganderr Aganderr Telganderr Tolvanderr Agarrata Megarrata Tolgarrata Telgarra Megarra Argarra Tolgavetta Agavetta Argetta Telgetta  *The Firstfolk were originally a loose confederation of nomadic horse clans roaming the central area of the continent before some of them began migrating west (becoming seafaring clans when they eventually reached the coast) and others began integrating themselves into the societies of other humans also migrating west (becoming the traveling wagon clans as organized nations of other folks began to form, and trade roads between kingdoms were established  along the traditional migratory routes of the Firstfolk).Now, although there are three different groups of Firstfolk (the settled folks like the Swamptown, mountain and coastal clans who usually farm, fish, hunt and/or engage in trapping or logging for a living, and the seafaring and wagon-living clans who are heavily involved in trading and commerce), the bonds of their shared culture are still strong and fierce, and they all still consider themselves to be one people even though they lack any formal centralized government or form of organization beyond their individual clans. Despite their lack of any actual nations or organization, the Firstfolk are capable of wielding a great deal of power and influence in the region when they choose to do so due to their near-ubiquitous involvement in every aspect of trade in the area (You'd be hard-pressed to find a single wagon or ship anywhere in the region that isn't owned or partially crewed by the Firstfolk or others allied with them...), much to the frustration of the nations in that part of the continent.</blockquote>

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