Hi @TheEdVerse ! Reading some Eveningstar lore, I wonder why the church of Lathander chose to put such a big temple in a little village ? Was it because of a prophecy, a holy vision, a very pragmatic reason ? Have a nice day, sir.
— Corentin Palanchini (@Sartana87) February 29, 2020
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Very pragmatic reason. It’s a temple and FARM. And owns the high pastures atop the Stonelands and rents them out to locals to graze their sheep.
Farmers sell produce to the temple; the priests wash, sort, grade, and pack the vegetables, then ship them to Suzail… 2)
…and Arabel for sale at much higher prices. So the farmers get convenience (no long trips and high costs and need for good wagons and big teams of draft beasts) and the temple gets a middleman profit. Trebled when produce shipped from Suzail to other markets.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 1, 2020
…this doesn’t make much sense.
Farmer’s gave X amount of produce to sell at harvest time. That’s the source of roughly their entire year’s income.
Long trips aren’t convenient, but if you can sell your product for twice as much by spending a few days to take it to a big market, you can effectively DOUBLE your yearly earnings for only a little bit of extra effort.
If you told me I could earn an entire year’s worth of income by going on a weeklong road trip across the country, I’d happily buy a new car and stock up on supplies for the trip, because even with those costs I’d see a massive profit, and I’d also get the benefit of the car during the rest of the year too.
Of course, that’s assuming doubled prices, but even at only a 50% or even 25% increase in price, it still seems more than worth the extra effort of a trip.