The Barony of Rufo is less of a royal manor and more of a backwater. “Castle Rufo” is little more than a rotting wooden palisade on a hill overlooking a creek. Their chief export and most famous resource is their cria herds of llamas. They create llama cheese, knit llama wool garments and yarn, and the mid-summer Llama Festival is famous throughout the Trimarch.

The settlement is ruled by a retired knight, Sir Stevem Rufo, his five daughters, and his one son-in-law. Sir Stevem has only a dozen other part-time militia at his command, and his manor and surrounding villages only number about three-hundred souls.