1) Yes there will be skills that deal with getting items from creatures you hunt. Your skill level and player skill will combine to determine if and how much of a loot item you get from your kill.

3) You will be able to rent items and materials from masters in order to get your trade going. These can be players or NPCs.

5) A note about sending an assassin to kill someone, the amount of spirit loss they suffer is based on their fame level. A max level fame character, like a king, will suffer 32x as much spirit loss as a normal character. So instead of 2 days for a death, you're looking at over 2 months.

1. A lot like the real world. You'll have to know what to cut, where to cut, and so on.

2. I'm going to say probably but you may need some kind of wool expert or something to inspect it. If you don't have any knowledge about wool, much like the real world, you probably wouldn't be able to determine something like that yourself.

3. I encourage you to watch this interview with Snipehunter. It goes over that pretty thoroughly and it's a great interview. Snipehunter is one of the game's developers. To give you a very abbreviated answer (and really it'd be better to watch the interview), as a ward you'd want to find someone to apprentice under. If there's no one in your village you could apprentice under you might have to travel to find one. If you start out in a family it's possible one of them might know something about it and could help get you started. During character creation when you select your interests & backstory it does specifically find families that will be able to help you with what you want to do. Otherwise, you could also apprentice. Another option are books but it's a lot harder to learn that way and it's generally recommended to find a master.

4. I can't answer that one.

5. You could always try to frame them. There will be an evidence system. Two birds with one stone, eh?

1. We really don’t have many details on he how it works but in essence yes an animal will drop parts. Whether that requires some gathering skill or not we don’t know.

It's also true when attacking animals. You won't kill a giant brown bear and loot a pair of chain boots. You'd get hide, meat, bones, and maybe some teeth or claws.

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.2. Again we just don’t know yet. One would assume items would have some visual to go along with the item quality ie purple, gold, white colored but we don’t know.

The level and expertise of the crafter should also hint at the quality of the product.

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.3. As a ward you may have some starting items like you receive from a family but my guess what you start with would be based on the level/size of the orphanage you start from.

A Ward sacrifices the financial and social support system which comes with a family, in exchange for additional character customization and more flexibility.

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.4. This is really two questions. NPC interaction and information. Reputation and fame spread through gossip. Any time you interact with NPCs you have an opportunity to gossip with them. This gives you the chance to learn things about other characters in your area, and to share things that you've witnessed as well. Depending on the openness of the NPC you're talking to, they may turn around and pass the information along to other NPCs and PCs who want to chat.

So if they like the lord more than the rebel they just might pass that information to the lord.

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Now as for actually taking part in a rebellion and it’s aftermath.

Coups are divisive. If a Mayor coups and invades the County seat, the other mayors/barons have essentially three options.

Join the pretender and become part of his/her new county Remain neutral, and hope your current liege lord doesn’t win Join your liege’s call to arms and hope the pretender doesn’t win Regardless of which option you choose, there is a potential loss condition for you. If you joined the pretender and he lost, or remained neutral when your liege summoned you, you committed treason. In the event your liege lord wins, you’re at risk of losing your title.

If you remained loyal to your old master, and the coup is successful, the new count could sue for peace, or could choose to stretch his/her army further and invade your lands as well. No matter which route you go, coups are dangerous times for everyone.

So there is little reasoning with NPCs if you join a rebellion against them your likely toast unless you have a high flavor with them.

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.5. There is a lot about crime and punishment floating around so just start here.