Behind the scenes at Grimstead

• Estate : Silverhand (Thomas)
• Networth : $50,224
• Jobs : Danson – Knight
• Names : Danson (Age:27)
  • Lorcan (Age:15)
  • Duncan (Age:12)
  • Quillen (Age:12)
  • Joseph (Age:12)
  • Aiden (Age:11)
  • Alistair (Age:8)
• Tax’s – None

Lorcan is now old enough to go to university however i’m going to hold off for another 3 years because sending the boy’s to university is a troublesome process have to organise a ship to send them to the mainland. For this reason teen’s tend to go in batches rather than simply as soon as they age up.

It would be possible for Valdermar to privately charter a ship to send Lorcan and it’s possible other noblemen might do this however with no marriage plan’s for his little brother i can’t imagine Valdermar is in much rush to get it sorted out especially not at his own expense.

At the moment i foresee two University batches, the first will be in about 4 years and will have Loran,Duncan, Aiden and Dawn, Joseph and Quillen.

After that there will be a 2nd batch a few years later which will have Hadrien (Peter hamduns son), Possibly Danica(Tarik’s Daughter), Possibly Eleua (Peter Hamduns Daughter), Alistair, Emma and possibly Adam (Bran Howards Son) depending on who can afford it.

The Barracks it’s self is a tad overfull at the moment, in that after i split it into apartments i didn’t really make the “training school” apartment big enough to house this many children at once. Over the years i don’t think it will be so much of a problem as i anticipate the number of children sent will lessen as the novelty wear’s off.

The reason Knight school is so popular but expensive is because, Although the first son of a nobleman get’s his own land by birthright inheriting from his father, furthe sons are not so lucky and will generally just be granted a nice house on their brother’s estate. Becoming a Knight however is a way of these second son’s to earn an estate of their own making it a popular choice for noble fathers after all the more estates their family control’s the more power the family has. For this reason Knight’s Training is limited to Noblemen and Son’s of the Service Class.

For this reason Danson is classed as a nobleman, i haven’t really written any background for this sim yet but he is starting to feature more and more into the story, not bad for a sim who was promoted to playable for a tempory measure. Danson will certainly for a foreseeable future remain in the barrack’s if he ever manages to wriggle himself fully into the plot i might consider things like wives and children but for now i sort of see him the way Vince Bendett was for Henry his friend and advice though im sure Thomas isn’t very happy with him at the moment haha.

The round it’s self is quite peaceful no major incidents other that lack of bed space.