Looking forward to the German translation. Myself I can understand the English wording and like to read the "original" text, but I know that we could better grow the community by translating the rules (not necessarily the stat cards). I already translated all the rules and wrote a German summary for our community and this helped to push the game very much! When translating I kept most of the English expression (Attack, Defense, Scheme, Action, etc.) that players get used to these expressions.
I think nowadays it would not be necessary for Wyrd to go through a local distributor - we only would need a German version of the rules and great Henchman to push the game ;-)
And.... yes translate please the Chronicles (and also the Podcasts I would place on the wishlist :-))