Lost eggs who have fallen into the care of the Splendid and Just Arbiters of Purpose are required to take either the coin or the razor, willing or not -- but what actually happens if they're not willing and remain unwilling to choose either option? (I imagine plenty of young people would balk when told that the fifty-year term of service is the short option, even if the Arbiters have some very convincing recruiters.)

Do they just get dragged to Pasiap's Stair and mercilessly hazed until they get with the program, or something like that? (Assuming they don't stage a daring escape and flee to the Threshold, or whatever.)

Reposting!

Exigents is on the slate for a Kickstarter, yeah?

So how large are hearthstones?

When I think of socketing them into weapons, I tend to visualize them as fist or egg sized like FF7 Materia, Then when I look at hearthstone amulets that are actually tiaras and such, that seems rather awkward and I start thinking of them as thumbnail sized gems.

Is there any rule of thumb on this? (Pun not intended)

I also have a last question (I hope), for anyone who'd care to chime in, and if you're still around, Eric, I'd like to hear your opinion too if you're not too busy.

I'm sending a full Legion against this city, to achieve a roughly 3 to 1 ratio that has been recommended to me in case of siege. It's led by a Cathak General who should be Essence 2 or 3 (the Roseblack is 3). Her brother will be the main sorcerer involved in the tactical casting of spells (I'm thinking Essence 2 should be sufficient). They could have a Lightning Ballista (and engineers able to build various siege engines once they're there). They'll most probably have infantry from both the Realm and their Southern satrapies (most of all from Harborhead) and auxiliaries like Delzahn light cavalry with firewands and composite bows, possibly Djala scouts, probably smaller numbers of various specialized troops from other cities on the coast, and some Desai troops from near Jiara.

Sounds about right?

As it wasn’t Meru or the current Imperial City, will the Realm book touch on where the Shogunate was capitaled? Does any current Great House hold an old Shogun’s palace manse?

Does the organization called the Wyld Hunt still exist, or are Wyld Hunts just a thing that Dragon-Blooded do now?

What would be the rough borders of Calin? Prior editions had it going all the way to Nexus and up nearly to Sijan, which did and does sound waaaaaaay too big.

Seeing the pizza question, made me realize:

Are you guys having an after-KS party to celebrate the success? Like a restaurant? Or a true office party with drinks? Or anything?
I mean, professionalism and all that, but people do need to unwind and celebrate a job well done, right?

Is the Chosen of Ash supposed to be in this month's Adversaries, or should we expect her in the Exigent book?

Question about terminology in WFHW:

The section of definitions at the start of the text says

But then when we get to the section on childhood, it refers to all children of the Great Houses as Dynasts, even before they exalt. Also what about children who grow to be adults and don't exalt? I believe they are still considered part of the House and are still married off to make alliances and strong bloodlines, but are they still Dynasts?

How large are the rivers of the Scavenger Lands? Namely the Yanaze, Rock, Grey, Rolling, etc... Are they on scale on the map? (dozens of miles across)
Or their representations on the map are exaggerated?

So. The DB KS is over. Are you guys happy with how it went and the reception it's gotten?

What's the oldest currently extant Great House? Ragara is her oldest remaining child (at least of political consequence), but the Scarlet Empress is still hundreds of years older than him and obviously had children before him. I would guess Tepet (since he had to have been her consort very early in Realm history), Iselsi, or Cynis (since I believe Eric has previously stated that they were probably founded by adopted children).