Carmanian House
Community Questionnaire
(revised 08/22/02)

 
 
The Community Questionnaire (for players) 
Tabulating the Results (for narrators) 

Notes:
This community questionnaire generates information, including Community Factors (Hero Wars Narrators Book, page 16), for a typical Carmanian House. The basic Carmanian House is an extended family consisting of between 200 and 1000 adults ruled by a hereditary patriarch known as a Fazzik. The minor Houses exist in a complex feudal relationship with each other, and this web of loyalty is called a Great House. It is not unknown for a Carmanian House to have feudal ties to several Great Houses, possibly in more than one Satrapy of the Western Reaches and beyond. Ultimately, there is always one Great House to which the Fazzik owes allegiance above all others.

The economic interests of even a small Carmanian House are diverse and widespread. Nearly every House conducts some business that involves both urban and rural resources - agriculture, mining, manufacture, and trade. For this reason I have not emphasized the economic specialty of the House being described. I leave that to the Narrator to decide when describing a particular cassir (castle) or trade organization. 

Religion is also too diverse to cover with any degree of completeness. Most Carmanian Houses have some members that worship in sophisticated urban patterns, and others that follow older rural traditions. Urban nobles tend to practice wizardry, while lower caste or rural Carmanians typically sacrifice to the Good Gods. Most Houses also have ancestral hero cults and secret knowledge that they cultivate for use against their enemies.

This community questionnaire generates some cult affiliations, but many more are probably found within your noble House. Worship of Carmanos and the Lunar cults of Arronius Joranthir, Yanafal Tarnils, etc. are widespread throughout the Western Reaches. Other deities worshipped vary by region:
 
Bindle: Bisos (with Esus and Kereus as subcults), Invisible Orlanth, and VakaRu.
Spol: Derdromus, Humakt, Natha, and Turos (Lord of the Underworld aspects with Oria for women).
Jhor: Bisos (with Esus), Charmain, Durbadath, Humakt, and Turos (God of Power aspects with Oria for women).
Worion Bisos (with Esus), Charmain, and Invisible Orlanth.

Finally:
Thanks to everyone that helped to make this possible, including (but not limited to) Nick Brooke, Peter Metcalfe, Martin Laurie, and Wesley Quadros.

Thanks also to Issaries for coming up with the idea of Community Questionnaires in the first place!

The Community Questionnaire (for players) 
Tabulating the Results (for narrators) 
   

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