Great Caravan Road

The Great Caravan Road of the eastern desert runs from Bhutan on the coast in the Ammuyad Caliphate and across the desert to Maahri in the Empire of Assuria in Istaflumina. From there, caravans travel south to the great city of Ur, where trade is done with merchants from all across the continent. The Great Caravan Road is well marked and has caravanserai (small walled communities that provide safe locales for the caravans to rest and resupply) at oases all along the route. Being separated from each other by about a day’s journey and being separated from their titular lords by an even greater distance, the local rulers possess great leeway in the exercise of their authority. Most traders prefer to become familiar with one or two stages (which may be several days’ journey) and keep to the area that they know, but sometimes merchants are concerned about being cheated or believe others are not adequately representing their wares, and so they make the entire journey themselves. Thus it is common to have merchants from Istaflumina or Jaati on the Caravan Road, and traders from even farther away are not an unusual sight.

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Road