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Please note that much or all of this page is currently in what we are calling “Bullet Draft” format, i.e. it’s not been fully written out but we’ve listed the ideas we’re working with in bullet-list form. We will be fleshing these out further and turning them into proper paragraph prose at some point in the coming year, but we wanted to put the lore out for players to read before the first event, even if it’s not as polished as we’d like it. Any sections here that are in bullet list format are not final and are subject to change, though hopefully only small adjustments will be needed between this and the final version.

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Demographics

• Human: ~42%
• Elf: ~19%
• Dwarf: ~14%
• Summer fae: ~9%
• Spring fae: ~8%
• Autumn fae: ~5%
• Winter fae: ~3%

Lineages

Humans

• Humans make up about four in ten Marchers.
• The Redcrown dynasty has been dominated by Humans for most of its centuries-long reign, and so there is a faint assumption by most Marchers that Humans are just better leaders than other Lineages, though a large number of Dukes, Counts, and Barons throughout the Kingdom are of non-Human Lineages and perform their roles admirably.

Elves

• Elves make up almost one in five Marchers.
• The dominant sublineage is Snow Elf, as they were the native Elves of the region after the Godswar, but many High Elves have immigrated from the Tomarran Steppe over the years, and there are thriving clusters of Wood Elves in the Clanns of the western Provinces who immigrated from the Grimmwold and Aurendale.
• Snow Elves frequently become Scriveners, enjoying the role of being surrounded by written works all the time.
• Many Elves (including Snow Elves) become mercantile Ponters, using their keen insight and relatively calm demeanor to make coin up and down the River.
• Elves lack the sheer depth of passion that other Lineages show in Rivermark, but they make up for it with dedication to their pursuits, doing their utmost to demonstrate how much they care about something (or someone) even if they cannot actually feel emotion for it as deeply as someone of another Lineage.
• Many of the stereotypes of Elves being hedonists or obsessive originate from Rivermark Elves, who consciously dive head-first into doing whatever they can to make themselves feel strong emotion despite their Lineage’s impairment in that vein.

Dwarves

• Dwarves make up just shy of three in twenty Marchers.
• The line of mountains to the south of the Kingdom known as the Spine was once home to the Dwarven kingdom of Malokron in the First Millennia, and Dwarves have moved into Rivermark from there and the Tomarran Plateau over the centuries.
• Some Dwarves have moved into the lowlands and integrated into Rivelin Maisons, but most of the Dwarven population has remained in the highlands as part of the Cairnfolk Clanns.
• Many Cairnfolk Clanns (especially in the south of the Kingdom) are filled with Dwarves from the same Dwarven Clan.
• The Durvahk, Cerisk, and Falrach Clans in particular have extensive networks of Clanns throughout the southern hills and mountains of the Kingdom.

Fae

• Summer and Spring Fae are the most common in the Kingdom, each making up a bit less than one in ten Marchers.
• Autumn Fae make up around one in twenty, and Winter Fae are rarest at a bit less than that.
• Fae in general are respected for their uniqueness in the Kingdom, with each season finding their own niches within the various Houses of the nation.
• Summer Fae are valued for their refusal to stay still; Marchers don’t see this as a problem, instead seeing it as a good thing because Summer Fae won’t ever let things stagnate.
• Spring Fae often find themselves acting as Filidhean and Riversages, using the openness of their hearts and easily-shown emotions deliver rousing performances and sermons.
• Autumn Fae, whatever their profession might be, tend to wedge themselves deep into the heart of their House, keeping it running and working tirelessly on its behalf.
• Winter Fae are viewed as being downright mystical by many Marchers, their dreams seen as gifts from the Rothlin, and so many of them fall into roles as Scriveners and Riversages.