Arafed man in a black coat and white shirt standing in a room

Baron Douglas Clarke presides over the Duchy of Livingston from his stately timber and stone stronghold known as Timber Castle, which sits strategically positioned overlooking the eastern Brighton township and inland trade route to Detroit. The Clarke barony traces lineage to minor Scottish aristocracy who secured lands around Nova Scotia and the St Lawrence Seaway following close ties supporting Britain’s 1812 offensive securing Upper Canada from America’s territorial ambitions. As youngest of five brothers, Douglas Clarke happily accepted opportunity far from Edinburgh high society's scrutiny when offered governorship administering a barely-settled Michigan backcountry domain sight-unseen. Now in his late 30s, the handsome but bookish Baron Clarke divides time between ambitious civic planning like bringing immigrant masons who built Livingston’s first stone chapel to also construct fortified Timber Castle, and indulging leisure activities like birdwatching, distilling apple brandy, and translating Latin verse during long winter nights.