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=== Aristocratic and Political. === | === Aristocratic and Political. === | ||
Lesmishan’s mighty banking guild - the Chasm Financing Co. - governs the nation. Each Lesmishanian town has a bank where representatives from the CFC choose a sheriff to keep [[order]] in the town and collect taxes for the | Lesmishan’s mighty banking guild - the Chasm Financing Co. - governs the nation. Each Lesmishanian town has a bank where representatives from the CFC choose a sheriff to keep [[order]] in the town and collect taxes for the CFC. The CFC will also loan out assets to people that they deem deserving. Both the bankers themselves and the citizens of any given town engage in wildly corrupt activity, but there are no written laws to enforce, so besides overt violence or resisting the CFC’s taxation, anything goes. | ||
=== Mercantile and Trade. === | === Mercantile and Trade. === | ||
Mining an abundance of gems, precious metals, and strange technologies, means that Lesmishan has vast trading capital. They trade widely with their neighboring nations and even distant nations in exchange for all manner of luxury goods and raw materials that they cannot naturally produce in their arid land. Lesmishan is especially known for a lightweight but rock-hard metal - called avadrium - that occasionally seems to glow in thin stripes and has been noted to enhance [[arcane]] and [[psionic]] power. | Mining an abundance of gems, precious metals, and strange technologies, means that Lesmishan has vast trading capital. They trade widely with their neighboring nations and even distant nations in exchange for all manner of luxury goods and raw materials that they cannot naturally produce in their arid land. Lesmishan is especially known for a lightweight but rock- hard metal - called avadrium - that occasionally seems to glow in thin stripes and has been noted to enhance [[arcane]] and [[psionic]] power. | ||
=== Militant. === | === Militant. === | ||
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=== Lesmishan === | === Lesmishan === | ||
The capital of Lesmishan, a city by the same name, is the largest mining town in the nation. As it is the oldest mining outpost, most of the veins of minerals in this particular region have since dried up except for those very deep in the caverns dotting the Chasm’s cliffs. While some | The capital of Lesmishan, a city by the same name, is the largest mining town in the nation. As it is the oldest mining outpost, most of the veins of minerals in this particular region have since dried up except for those very deep in the caverns dotting the Chasm’s cliffs. While some miningstill takes place there, most of the more shallow mineshafts have turned into black markets and criminal haunts. The city as a whole is wildly lawless and most miners spendfar more than they earn in this city. The Chasm Financing Co.’s headquarters is in this city: a large stone bastion with enough cured food and water to survive two years under siege. | ||
=== Points of Interest === | === Points of Interest === | ||
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=== Quest Ideas === | === Quest Ideas === | ||
* The CFC needs the heroes to clear out some monsters from a lucrative mineshaft. | |||
* Miners ask the heroes to help them clear a cave-in so that they can rescue their companions. | |||
* A banker hires the heroes to undermine, blackmail, or rob another banker. | |||
* An outside nation asks the heroes to scout out the capital city to see how best to overthrow it. | |||