This simple crossroads between the southern plains had been long traveled, but over time developed into a small area to rest for the caravans and travelers that frequented the roads.
History of Merchant's Plain
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Crossroads Becomes a Caravan Waystation
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The Transformation into a Market
Construction beginning/endThe first entrepreneur to build a tavern and market at the didn't fully understand what potential he had stumbled upon. After the tavern was finished and stalls started to be thrown up, there wasn't a night that the rooms at the establishment wasn't filled.
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The First Betrayal
Life, DeathThe founder of what would later become known as Merchant's Plain was the first lesson to any wishing to make a coin at the crossroads. That simple lesson is that a might financial empire is often lost with a small slip of a blade in between two ribs...
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Building of the Spätschläfer Inn
Construction beginning/endThe oldest building Merchant's Plain started right after that infamous murder and has kept the tale alive for centuries.
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Founding of First Merchants' Council
FoundingThe different guilds in the crime-ridden city finally came together to create a ruling body to protect the rule of law and secure future business ventures for all merchants coming to this new budding city.
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1648 IC
25 /2
Burning down of the Guild Palace
Disaster / DestructionThe syndicates fought against any challenge to their power. Quickly seeing a chance to perhaps end the budding council as soon as it started, the Guild Palace was burned on the same day that it was completed.
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1648 IC
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Reconstruction of Guild Palace
Construction beginning/endAfter the destruction of the Guild Palace, the Merchants' Council took this chance to rebuild their headquarters on a mythic scale, flexing their full power for the entire world to see.
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Construction of the Great Canal of Merchant's Plain
Construction beginning/endIn an attempt to continue to build trade, the Merchants' Council voted to build a massive inland dock and connect it to the sea with a massive canal to the coast.