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The Mercantile Guild
Mill Wilkinson:
I think Hanseatic League -type solution of tradesmen-led city-states forming a military alliance to back their financial interests would be interesting, especially if intertwined with a previous agenda of hiring mercenaries and not really knowing modern warfare. And, when someone has more might than the other, they tend to think it is a-okay to greedily paw at more.
Puggerugger:
Judging by the name, is the guild made up entirely of mercenaries?
Zabinzu:
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the term Mercantile is described as thus: Of or relating to merchants or trading.
Basically the Mercantile guild are a faction based around trading and economics.
Puggerugger:
Ohhhh.
But when you think about it, it would make sense if you played as mercenaries escorting barges and smuggling goods through Arashi lands for trade companies.
Lord Dick Tim:
The way the Merchantile guild has been being portrayed in the fan game "Diesel Punk Tale" is as the universal standard for many of the worlds inhabitants.
I've liked the idea of using the Merchants money as the standard currency, and thus their language also being the go to trade and diplomatic language. I've been portraying them as not evil, nor naïve, but heavily invested in their legal blood lines, marriages, corporate alliances and interest in foreign trade along with the ownership of land and markets in cities that make trade or monopoly networks for products.
One of the story lines in the campaign that's been working out is a Bankers marriage to a Baroness of the Fjordlands to get at her lands in a choke hold port, giving him the only eastern access point into the Fjords from Chaladon, with her death and his re-marriage to another Merchant guild higheress he would have monetary control, and physical asset control of 4 major ports that would tie the Guild and Chaladon to Cathedral, making the Arashi land route the only other option for goods to travel, a long and distant journey. Over night he could make himself the most powerful man in the world, till the test party put him in a toilet and blew his brains out with a shotgun (Way to go Papa).
That's how I envision some of the Merchant Guild politics going down anyways.
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