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Squidslinger Gilder:
Nah Baronies is rather resource starved. That's been one clear thing in the lore. Well they at least have one refinery because we have Blackcliff map in game. I think the Fjordlands also have some form of mining operations due to the terrain. Perhaps much of the mines have been used up? To support a lavish lifestyle I could imagine them using resources rather recklessly.

Baronies gets support from Chaladon and both the Baronies and Chaladon have a common foe in Anglea. I personally have a theory that the cultures were at one time one and that Chaladon is another one of these cultural splits. Yet not an aggressive one. Perhaps Chaladon was originally a colony at one time that gained freedom but still has ties to it's homeland. We know the countries were not all in the same spots. That migration happened and borders shifted or changed. If the Baronies are in a decline state then it is possible at one time they were much much larger. Perhaps extended into areas that are now independent states. So maybe there was a revolution of some kind which broke it apart. Bad king/etc.

Guild are a bit too in bed with Yesha for their tastes however, I think from stuff I've read, the Guild does have operations there. So maybe a Guild family is more friendly to the Baronies and serves as an intermediary.

Yeah much of this is fun piecing together things that Muse has released or hinted or talked about. Working on the VN has afforded me a few extra tidbits but none of it is anything you can't piece together form what is there.

Helios.:
the baronies have huge mountain ranges, and i dont know if this is entirely facetious, but i thogut there was usually iron deposits in mountains... have i played too many RPGs? maybe i have... at any rate it does seem that besides probably some wood and definitely salted fish, the fjordlanders are not fantastically natural resource rich. it's not very well defined what the landscape of the fjordlanders is, but we can look at the map, and it looks like a lot of ocean, and some forests, and a metric ton of fjords. my assumption that king Gregor would like shiny stuff from other parts of the world was based on the fact that he was king and therefore likely to want luxury goods, and luxury goods are prime trade.

Helios.:
as to the chaledonians being a long lost region of a larger nation of wich the fjordlandrs were part, from what we know of the chaledonian history, we know tat they have been isolated since before the great environmental disasters that brought low the rest of the world, but because of their resources, they didnt suffer with the ecological destruction of the rest of the world, in fact as i recall, they didnt even notice. when a fjordlander showed up there in an airship built on the gabrielan archetype, they realized they could cross the obscenely treacherous pass between the island of chaledon and the mainland by air, and when they did were appalled by the ecological destruction they found in the rest of the world.

what interests me with all this is how the merchantile guild would use the relative defecits and strenghts of the various nations to make a tidy profit, and with this profit, i imagine fund and create a powerful fleet of airships both of their own design, and also likely a smattering of foreign ships as well, both adapted and if need be, hired outright.

as for their involvement with the yesha, there's no reason to only suspect their involvement with one another, the yesha are the largest faction on the map both in terms of naval power, size and presumably raw industrial resources (and therefore presumably a large number of manufactured goods as well) OF COURSE they are trading with one another, the mercantile guild could not pass up such an opportunity!!
The MG is a group of traders so close to psychotically obsessed with gaining wealth through trade that i wouldnt doubt that the other factions couldn't help but look at them askance. they aren't EXACTLY warmongers, but they are prepared for EVERY contingency, and prepared to make a profit no matter what happens. the profit margins for proviting warships to warring states would undoubtedly be astronomical, and as such, we must assume that the MG would negotiate EITHER non agression treaties so they can sell war suplies to both sides for a HUGE margin, or cast their lot in with one side or the other either for a lot of cash (whatever cash is in this world) or for some kind of OVERBEARING advantage over a faction that harried them.

Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah any connection between Baronies and Chaladon would have to be older then. Perhaps it was old world and those escaping the war fled to Chaladon. That to me would explain why in Chaladon there seems to be a mix of both northern and southern cultures. The British India setup that Muse describes.

Yesha gives them open markets. So they get trade benefits and from my understanding the "Yeshan Way" is not opposing to the Guild policy. Think it was hinted at that the expansionist policy works well with the Guild's goals.

I'd suspect that means that where ever Yesha goes, the Guild gets to expand their economic dominion better. So open markets spread to other cities which then reduces the hassle the Guild has to deal with in expanding.

At the end of it all, I'd say the Guild will eventually swallow up Yesha. Just because the expansionist policy needs money and resources to fuel it. When all of that becomes heavily leveraged on The Guild, they basically own Yesha and to pay debts Yesha would then have to give conquered land away to the Guild or give them more power over their economy. This is kind of the Aero 3 backstory again. Cept I did it on a smaller scale. Just northern companies conspiring to make this happen by taking advantage of the war torn north.

Helios.:
if the yeshans' economy cant support the expansionist pushes, then it seems plausable. if they economy of the yeshan empire CAN support its expansionistic philosophy, then we might see the reverse, that the empire spreads apace with its means, and the merchantile guild is ultimtely confronted with a very large, rapacious neighbor to the north who might not have much compunction about taking controll of lands more previously controlled by guildsmen. if there is no financial leverage to hold over yesha's head, then its going to come down to how well the two nations behave  if they cant cripple the yeshan economy with an economic attack and take over that way, and have to throw down in a ship war (which, lets face it... we all wanted.)  it might be that at the beginnign of hostilities between the yeshans and the MG, the trade flow stops along the borders of yesha, and both sides start suffering very badly, in yesha they cant sell their stuff, in the guild there's less stuff, and fewer people to sell it to. before the blood starts raining from the sky, we might see serious problems within the two nations.

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