The courts of Prythian
Every character belongs to one allegiance: one of the seven courts, the Courtless or the Outlaws. Ranks are in Ranks; open rank claims are in #claims. Every empty throne is held by a regent, a staff NPC, until a claimant takes it.
Night Court
Secretive, proud, fiercely loyal to its own. Prythian believes the Night Court is all nightmare; Velaris prefers it that way.
Day Court
Learned, ordered, contemptuous of ignorance. Knowledge is currency, and the court is rich.
Dawn Court
Gentle on the surface, relentlessly inventive beneath. Its healers are welcome everywhere; its inventors are watched everywhere.
Spring Court
Courtly, passionate, slow to forgive. Spring guards the Wall and the holes in it.
Summer Court
Merchant-princes, rich and wary. Twice burned, never trusting.
Autumn Court
Ambitious, fiery, at war with itself. Heirs have a habit of dying young.
Winter Court
Patient, stoic, long-memoried. Winter endures what kills other courts.
Courtless
Wanderers, mercenaries, scholars, merchants and anyone who never swore to a court.
Outlaws
Oathbreakers who fled their court with its secrets, and criminals every court wants dead.