Hopefully everyone had some good holiday time. Took the family to see Into the Woods yesterday. Outstanding movie. I would not take a kid younger than 7 even though it has Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding hood. it has some themes that are a bit tricky for young kids.
I'm going to get rolling soon. i know that Arktos is going to capture, catalog and store magical animals so that will be in his contract. There are two directions your residency can take. 1) Hospites - these fellows are paid by the Tribunal for doing jobs. 2) Foederati - this is an outsider. They are more restricted than others in what they can do and where they can move. Please refer to the Transylvania Tribunal sticky first post for an explanation of all the the levels of residency.
IIRC, Zoltan is a Hospites and Ophelia is a Socii because she is a hoplite.
We will need to figure out what Ankoydes is going to do at a "research" covenant.