My friends and I are planning to do Crimson Throne after we finish with the Serpent's Skull, and while preparing to do a thorough backstory I discovered a problem. I planned to make my character from the defunct house Fordyce, but while I was looking through the Guide to Korvosa (the parts that my DM lets me read anyway) I found some facts that don't add up.
Here they are:
Cousins war happened in 4502-3
House Zenderholm participated in the Cousins' war.
House Zenderholm replaced Fordyce 30 years after arrival in Korvosa as a great house.
House Fordyce became a great house after 4551 when the breaching festival granted fame and fortune to the family.
House Fordyce retained their title as a great house for a century.
I was wondering if there were any spoiler free people out there who could tell me a bit more about House Fordyce or offer speculation on how all of these facts could be true.
I can offer speculation; House Fordyce could have been a great house in the past, but been replaced as such by House Zenderholm in 4533, to then again rise to that level after the breaching festival in 4551.