He looks good, I'm happy to have you on board. However I want to reiterate that this is a fantasy, inspired by Russian Fairy tales. We are aiming for a general ambiance of a fairy-tale Russia/Slavic region, evoking images of red-cheeked people in furs with onion-domes in the distance and sleighs pulled through woods that may or may not contain a house on chicken legs. There is no time period this pulls from specifically. If something adds to the story and ambiance I will use it, but I don't want to be tangled in the details of what/when/how. 

There will be serfs if you like and land owners, down in the lowlands, but not up on the mountain. Things are different on the mountain closed off and isolated even more so than the whole country. There is a underlying sense of them and us in their dealings with anyone who does not live on the mountain. 

I do appreciate the list of NPC's. Are any off limits? Or are they all free for the taking? 

Also, are people checking the OP? I've put a few things up including most of the CSs.