[@TokyoPewPew]

I'll add to the OOC, when I get it up that I have no upper limit to people joining and I'm happy for people to join late i.e. the RP will never be full.

My experience on this site and elsewhere is that, even if we get quite a crowd at the start of an RP, a number will drop out through disinterest or RL issues and even if numbers seem a bit hard to manage off the bat, I know it will be fine given a week or two!

So that is all to say, no prior priority given, if you're interested, love to have you aboard!

As for factions.  The Whites will start the RP sheltering in a foreign court.  

The Reds were a conspiracy that's been brewing for a while made up of human burghers and military officers.  When the civil war kicks off they've started rallying peasants, burning manors etc. and then defeated the Imperial field army sent to put them down (through weight of numbers).  They are in the open at the moment to rally the peasants but they have the potential to go underground again or retreat into that impassable woodland area on the map.