House Rogarvia is gone. House Surtova, which natively held the northeast corner of Brevoy, has taken its place with a very unstable regency. But Rogarvia's House holdings were in southwest Brevoy, near Restov.
Is Surtova directly holding all that land? It seems extraordinary implausible. Has it been taken by one or more of the adjacent Houses? Has Surtova pushed some minor family into Great House status in order to fill the void?
The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that if *someone* hadn't been put in charge in the old Rogarvia holdings, they would now be in open rebellion. It's been several years in our campaign already, and Nature abhors a vacuum, especially a power vacuum.
This matters to our campaign because we are seeing way more involvement with Brevoy than in the main line. The PCs just helped manage the liberation of Restov and its return to Free City status. I was all set to run the three-corner negotiation between the Restovites (who don't trust the PCs' future intentions) and the local Great House, when I found out that there *is* no local Great House. Oops!
Honestly, if the very Rostlander House Lebeda was now in control of the old Rogarvian holdings as well as their own, I think they would secede and form a Rostlander nation. That isn't what I want for my campaign, yet. Medvyed isn't much better, and does not sound well placed to take over the SW anyway. I ended up inventing an Issian minor house, Ostrov, pushed into prominence by the Surtovas.
Has anyone else spent enough time in Brevoy to have worked this through? I have an answer for my game, but would be interested in others' views.
ive tried really hard to sort this as well
i have house lebeda in the sw
Honestly, if the very Rostlander House Lebeda was now in control of the old Rogarvian holdings as well as their own, I think they would secede and form a Rostlander nation. That isn't what I want for my campaign, yet.
Except that that's exactly what's happening. The Rostlanders, led by the Aldori Swordlords, have taken over Southern Brevoy, and are getting ready to consolidate their power and form a Rostlandic nation.
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I think it belongs to Lebeda by canon, and rogarvia was SE Brevoy. In my game, I switched the two, making House Lebeda in charge of SE Brevoy, and leaving SW Brevoy without a main House.
Rather than having each house be solely in charge of their areas of control, I have the main Brevoy houses serving as dukedoms, with 3-4 baronies under each of them. As such, even though House Rogarvia is "gone", the baronies all hold sway over their regions, and are all on relatively good terms individually with the swordlords, either through marriage or treaty.
Our campaign too is heavily involved with SW Brevoy, mostly because we started off our game with a very RP heavy adventure called Wedding Knight, from the Song of Ice and Fire RP game. It involves a political marriage between two feuding families, and in our case, one family was a barony under Garess, and one an independent barony to the south that shares marriage ties with the Swordlords. All the noble characters in our game were from (or allied) with one family or the other, and so our game has a fairly complex political landscape with Brevoy alone, even without having any additional due to creating their own kingdom.
I plan on keeping a lot of politics in our game, a la Game of Thrones, since it presents the party with uniqe challenges (and many RP situations) that cant be solved with spell or sword. So far, there is unrest among the swordlords over an irrational, intolerant new ruler in the local lord's castle, which is currently causing problems for the Baron that the player's serve.
I would be very interested in hearing about anyone elses take on Brevoy politics, as I could use some more good ideas :)