Sorry, it's past 1 in the morning where i live, so i'll not answer to your points in detail. I'd just like to point out that if we were to price cards according to the best possible cases, Chancellor should cost 7$.* Also you would need lots and lots of Villages to do a really strong combo with this card, which is not something that will happen just so. Talking of Courtyard, why doesn't that one cost 5$? It's actually better than Smithy quite some times.
I can't really claim to have come up with the idea all by myself. I just tried to simplify what LastFootnote suggested. Still, if that's okay for everyone, i would gladly think of a name for it
I can't decide today, though. The idea of a character (or anything) that travels between Villages seems nice to me, but for now, River sounds fine. If it becomes the one name associated with it until then, i guess i'm just out of luck naming it
*Feel free to quote me out of context with this