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What became of Little Sam? Did he follow his father into the Watch, or was he strongly discouraged from doing so?

He, or children and grandchildren are quite wealthy. Did he get more involved managing the estates?

Or in the more general sense, what is the landed nobility up to? Are they just becoming more and more irrelevant as their relative wealth declines? Is there a faction of aristocrats trying to roll back water clock?

Did the Agatean Empire ever get opened to Circle Sea commerce, or is it still just "nothing beyond the wall but vampire ghosts"?

The immense amounts of gold there will attract businessmen/adventurers anxious to get some of it, but doing so may be tricky.

Now I am picturing a naval standoff as steam octironclads rule the seas, but can't come within a league of the coasts due to the Barking Dogs on every headland.

Perhaps they remain a hermit kingdom and the only significant power not complying with the No First Use policy.