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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 1529925" data-attributes="member: 9758">Journal Entry of Seth Lochmar - July 14thJuly 14th, 1002    I realized I haven’t said a thing about our tenants.  Now, I haven’t gotten to know them all well yet.  There are still a few I haven’t met at all.    Kelwyn was the first I met.  He’s a Hunter and a decent tracker.  He supposedly helped that last group a lot, so he’s been around a while.  He’s got a wife and daughter, and a few hunting dogs.  One of his dogs, which became unsafe, now lives in our gatehouse.  He figures that as long as it’s in there, it can’t hurt anyone.    The Salisbars are a big family.  They’ve been making sure things run smoothly in the family’s absence.  The oldest, Carlan, married one of Dame Edith’s daughters and was bequeathed some of the Pollards’ land by the last group as a wedding present.  They’re farmers, like most of the tenants and another of the sons is to marry another of Dame Edith’s daughters.  I sense a theme here.    The Pollards were a family that lived on the lands when the last group was here.  They were supporters of the Dars, our neighbors to the East, and weren’t happy the Lochmars returned.  They made some kind of dark pact, so now their lands around their homestead are blighted and they haunt the place as Wights.  Gonna have to put them to rest soon.    Dame Edith is an old widow with lots of children.  Her oldest still living with her, Lila, is very beautiful and slightly older then marrying age.  The fact that the less pretty and younger sister was getting married before Lila perplexed Fiona, until she learned that Lila was engaged.  Fiona suspected that Lila was engaged to Andreas, and it was later confirmed.  Considering how old she would have been while he was around… the cradle robber.    I haven’t officially met Varney, but Arvin says he makes a damn good moonshine by fermenting potatoes.  He doesn’t like authority figures.    I also haven’t met Argyle, but apparently he raises great hunting dogs.  The Sheriff has told him we’re going to tax the hell out of him, so he’s planning on leaving in August.  Luckily, Arvin came up with a very good taxation plan.  It should convince him to stay.    Right near Caledon land is the Jings.  Yet another family I haven’t met, but supposedly they were very rude to Fiona and Arvin.  The Jings kept telling them that they lived on Caledon land, not Lochmar land, and to get off it.  Yet another fun thing we need to get into the archives to deal with.    A woman named Megan runs her household.  She has lots of men hanging around and was very suspicious of us when we visited.  She’s an herbalist and openly lied to me when I asked her if she’d been having any problems (She said no).  The Spurmans called her a witchy woman.    The Spurmans are a family of Half-Orcs who used to live in the Free village.  They’re sheepherders.  For some reason, no creatures seem to bother them.    Finally, there is Chelsea & Henrietta.  They have the land closest to the Dars (and thus the worst for farming).  They are VERY wary of men.  Chelsea was the one who did all of the talking.  There is a little girl who lives there named Linnea (I believe she is Henrietta’s daughter).  She’s a cute little thing.  When we went by on our way to the city, she waved back at us.  Should not send any men to check on them without the accompaniment of a woman.  If possible, should only send women to see them.</blockquote>

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