Feel encouraged to post your questions. As long as you're asking in good faith, you'll find the forum supportive. If anything, getting the odd question can help lead to improvements to in-game descriptions. Chances are if you have a question, likely lots of players have the same question.
Just keep in mind that forum moderators and the wiki editors have a rivalry over who can drink the most friguld rum and confuse the most players. Well not really, but it seems like that sometimes (and it would explain a certain gross wiki error about the wraiths at the Mercian Crypt).