Clan Ketan

Clan Ketan is one of the three clans that dominate the political life of the Nords of Ardfarjord. Clan Ketan's Jarlhold is the town of Ketanyoog, and the clan is made up almost exclusively of the Nords living in the wild lands east of the Dragon's Back Mountains. The clan is famed for its skill at forestry and enriched by the fur trade that flows from the clans reclusive trappers through its ports and out into The Sea of Moving Ice and beyond. The clan is also known for its craftsmen, including woodworkers, scrimshaw, and the blacksmiths at Mireport. During the imperial age the clan was fairly split in terms of collaboration v. resistance, and the vast wilderness and coastline of the region provide ample cover for brigands, pirates, and "rebels". Imperial presence in the region was somewhat light, generally sticking to the coastal towns and Petintat, as well as keeping the roads open and the fur trade flowing.

The current Jarl of Clan Ketan is Sven Ketan. Sven has lead the clan to great economic prosperity by a two pronged policy of accommodating and attracting merchants and fur traders from the mainland on one hand and creating and enforcing a cartel on foreign sales of furs on the other (really, both these policies are merely continuations of his predecessor's strategies). To attract merchant vessels, Sven has taken an active interest in combating piracy and banditry along the fur trade routes which has brought him into conflict with many green-flag companies seeking to fund their rebellion by plundering the imperial fur trade. Worse, many of the clan's hardened woodsman think the Jarl and his family soft, and indeed the largess of the fur trade has left the Jarl and his fellow oligarchs able to import luxuries far in excess of their fellow islanders. One such luxury, however, is the Flaming Fists mercenary company whose 100 members are far better equipped and trained than any Nordic army. Still, the sudden loss of the Kingsreach Empire's troops and naval support has left the Jarl and his cronies vulnerable, caught between greedy power-brokers looking to break the monopoly on the fur trade on one end and hardened revolutionaries looking to excise any remnant of imperial influence on the other.

Villages of Clan Ketan:

Ketanyoog (Jarlhold)

Mireport

Pasterlydale

Petintat

Rokyot

Harrstead

Harry's Post

Fireguard Keep