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Baroness Hina of Xaarum

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From the KoK campaign setting entry for Xaarum:

• Suzerain is Duke Emearer. He could be anything.
• Trade works by selling mushrooms for metals, mostly through Zoa.
• Entire local military is < 100.
• Lots of gnomes, halflings, & elves.
• Coconuts are plentiful.
• Four equally-powerful barons live only to contradict her, each other, and the Duke.
• Estate is near the Fautee Forest and the Reanaaria Bay.
• Abundance of dwarf metalworkers.

The house's working name will be "Howling Tower".

[D30 Nickname]: The Sagacious. So she's Baroness Hina The Sagacious of Xaarum.

If Reanaaria had a monarch, Hina would be 669th [D1000th] in line for the throne.

Hina decides she's anti-slavery. She'll possibly work people to death but she will pay them.

Hina is an invested trader. Through intermediaries, she owns a small home and personal warehouse in every port in Reanaaria Bay (to be detailed in a later step if it matters to the campaign).

Make the immediate family.

Hina is married (rolled under 50 on d100). Her spouse's name is Geolain.

Hina's parents: Lirlana & Ravuu; (live with Hina)

Hina's siblings: None (rolled 1 on 1d20)

Hina & Geolain's kids, all boys: Wuxo, Nerum, Sevar, Lealur (youngest is deceased)

Hina's aunts & uncles: Uncle Haar (married) - wife Vaatisea & Uncle Vroa (deceased)

Make the related-by-marriage families.

Geolain's parents: Biasa & Davao; (live with Hina)

Geolain's aunts & uncles: Aunt Deolana (deceased), Uncle Aavoor (deceased), Uncle Govuur (widowed)

Geolain's cousins: None

Other details

Hina had four kids, Geolain's youngest sister has 6 kids... let's make them a couple of 48 year olds.

Headcount

Family living at Howling Tower: 37. 14 are small children, necessitating 4 nurses.

Hina picks stuff for her house.

• 40 Guards in light armor with a goal of keeping 3 crossbows per guard. Really she wants more but she is able to muster 40 in Xaarum.
• 28 dogs. She assigns 8 dogs to the guard and 20 for pest control and truffle hunting.
• 40 horses for now, primarily for waggoning commodities to and from Zoa, and for making new horses to sell.
• A fleet of Busses for catching fish. Unfortunately, the low local population doesn't make this cost effective and the dwarves can't be persuaded to fish for her.

• Hina wants a Knarr for trading.
• Hina wants a still so she can sell booze.
• Hina has a lot of use for translators and engineers but she decides to hire them in Zoa as-needed, rather than having personal engineers in her house.
• Hina does hire a physician just for her estate.
• Hina wants spies to monitor her neighboring nobles. She decides to disguise them as hunters so they can also help her gamekeeper.

Here's the running headcount:

• 1 armorer, 3 bowyers, 3 fletchers
• 1 chamberlain
• 1 herald
• 1 physician
• 1 quartermaster
• 1 spymaster disguised as gamekeeper
• 3 butlers
• 3 farriers
• 4 quartermaster assistants
• 4 tanners
• 7 dog trainers (at least)
• 8 brewery workers
• 8 cooks/butchers
• 8 maids
• 10 attendants
• 10 stable workers
• 12 spies disguised as hunters
• 40 guards
• 41 family members
• 1 smith

Early total of 166 (159 for food purposes).

Victuals

Hina wants the staples to be coconuts and barley. Unfortunately her coconut orchard will take 20 years to start dropping coconuts.

Hina decides the staples will be piggies and barley.

• Pigs will support 26 people/acre.
• Barley will support 6 people/acre. Hina wants to grow extra to turn into beer and whiskey.

• 4 acre pigs: 104
• 12 acres barley: 72

With 80 pigs and 30 tons of barley expected every year, Hina plans to bring in extra workers: 8 swineherds, 8 tanners, a cartwright, a carpenter, and 8 assistant sawyers. She also decides to hire a dozen laborers for 4-month stays. Basically 12 laborers will also live at Howling Tower. 16 acres of farmland requires 8 farmers.

The estate population is now 212 (so far feeding 176). At this point it may be extremely tempting to make the family and attendants do farmwork but that would ruin everything.

Hina revises the original designation:

• 6 acre pigs: 156
• 14 acres barley: 84

The planned setup should feed 240 people, covering 2 extra farmers, an extra swineherd and 4 new butchers.

On occasion the diet will be changed up a bit:

• Sending a butler to pay for cured fish.
• Off-duty spies have to catch game in big pit traps.
• Retired horses.

Wages

A rough estimate of [5 silver * number of non-family estate members] every month: 995 Silver / Month (~10 platinum / month)

Floorspace

  "room" is a 10'x10' square

    dog rooms
    horse stable
    -
    118:
     45 stalls
     40 horse-corridor
     25 hay storage
      4 farrier workspace
      4 outside tool storage

    great hall
    briefing room
    larder/grainery for 240 people
    brewery/distillery with waggon loading area
    kitchen
    -
    265:
     265 rooms

    1 armorer, 3 bowyers, 3 fletchers
    1 quartermaster
    4 quartermaster assistants
    40 guards
    12 hunters
    - 
    30:
     25 bedrooms
      guards will keep armor in their sleeping quarters
     4 rooms for weapons and ammunition (separate hunters and guards)
     1 QM's office

     
    1 chamberlain
    1 herald
    1 physician
    1 spymaster disguised as gamekeeper
    -
    5:
     5 rooms & offices


    41 family members + babysitters
    -
    27:
     18 bedrooms 
      9 art rooms

    3 farriers
    7 dog trainers (at least)
    1 smith
    1 carpenter
    1 cartwright
    -
    37:
     5 bedrooms
     16 smithy
     16 woodshop

    9 swineherds
    12 tanners
    8 sawyers
    10 farmers
    10 stable workers
    -
    38:
     16 smoking sheds
     13 bedrooms
     1 saw storage room
     4 tanning storage rooms
     4 tanning workshop


    6 cooks
    6 butchers
    8 brewery workers
    8 maids
    3 butlers
    10 attendants
    -
    25:
     16 bedrooms
      9 butcher-spot


    Total rooms: 
     118+265+30+5+27+37+38+25 = 545 10x10 "tiles"
    :
    Not counting docking a knarr in Xaarum

Give em a signet

[D30 Roll]: A Vortex.