Castle income

[Moose]

So, how does it works? Some weird numbers utterly confused me.

I was a vassal of Riverlands, that was at war with Vale. I had only village River's Edge, which generated 270-400 income, unless raided. Then the liege grants me castle Redfort. Income from the castle alone for the first week was 10 300 silver stags. For the second week there was no income from it. The third week was 1000 stags.

I found that castle income depends on it's village (For Redfort it's Crescent). If that is, 1st week no one owned Crescent. Second week it was looted, then granted to some lord. Third week nothing happened with village.

Why was the first week's income so big? Is it something like a "grant bonus"? Does village not being owned by anyone had anything to do with it?

[Produno]

If a fief is not owned then the income builds up until someone does own it.

[Moose]

Thank you for the reply. Does fief's faction-switching and fief being plundered nullifies this upbuilding?