Alex McClay @AlexMcclay2000
…you to name every single merchant, but who are the most important members in the council, or the merchants that are the most wealthy/influential and what exactly do they trade in. this would be around 1360-70 DR.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 5, 2020
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Belvarn Tholandor (LN hm F3): a heavy-set, raven-haired, bearded (with daggerboard sideburns and heavy brows), piercing black eyed man who rarely smiles and publicly reveals no sense of humour. He trades in iron castings and…#Realmslore2)
…lubricants (such as wagon-axle greases and anti-rust coatings for tools and weapons) and invests in city properties. At Council, he advocates raising taxes and using them to bolster the local Watch to “keep an eye on”… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 5, 2020
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…“miscreant citizens.” He wants lots of new laws and regulations passed, too, to keep Iriaebor clean, orderly, living within its means, and offering visiting on-caravan merchants their own stables and inns (so they can be kept 4)
…apart from locals, and watched closely when they visit city taverns and businesses). Tholandor is law and order, through and through. He likes to get an edge over competitors and then have laws passed that make this…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 5, 2020
…advantage “rightful”—and then seek a new edge, and another law. He is forceful, sways a lot of small merchants who like the security he promises, and is loathed by many others on Council who see him as a bully who’s working 6)
…his way up to being a tyrant.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 5, 2020
