I have just reviewed the Overall Political Climate in Brevoy. For those of you with an interest in such things you can find the over view at
http://rp.baileymail.net/doku....olitics#the_tensions.
This is a fairly basic overview at a level you would expect to find in modern news reports or 'interested' pub conversations. Every character with any ranks in Know:Nobility is aware of this, and it is id freely available from all low level information sources. You can all know it IC. However, remember that this is part overview and part speculation. None of you are senior enough to understand how your houses actually feel about any of these things - nor to have any more detail on any of the specifics.
It provides the framework for me to work out background events and some influence modifiers.