Since the great portal ban hundreds of years ago, the people of Violem have yearned to travel across the realms once more. For the sites, the sense of freedom and the abundance of resources that could not be found in the realm of magic. And ever since the great portal ban, there has always been a very high paid profession known as portal smuggling. A highly illegal career which will be met with death if caught.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Despite the job being against the law, people will still willingly apply for the job and work in the shadows to gain access to portal magic and the materials only found off world. With every day looking completely different which takes a certain type of person to be successful. Skills such as agility, a keen eye and quick thinking are favourable when entering the profession. If one were to become a smuggler, they might find themselves doing some of the following things:
- Watching out for guards and law enforcements
- Travelling to other realms and gathering supplies
- Moving goods from one location to another
- Selling haggling for the best prices at black markets
- Creating distractions for law enforcements
Operations:
The operations of portal smugglers are more akin to an organized crime syndicate, with everybody playing an important role to keep the whole business moving forwards. With regular meetings between the seven major businesses, always at a different location. With the purpose of sharing new spells to travel undetected, discussing dangers in each of the realms and planning contingencies if any of the businesses were to be discovered.
Due to portal magic being banned at the end of the exploration era, portal smugglers have had to get create about how they enter and exit Violem. They cannot use well known waystones due to them being under constant guard, using common portal spells would result in a curse and any portals near cities will alert law enforcements immediately. Instead smugglers are looking into technology that can replicate portals through the use of elemental magics as well as searching for unmapped waystones in the jungles of Hoarwae and the Untouched Lands.
Depending on the role of the individual, a portal smuggler can earn anywhere between 10 and 20 gold per day as well as a small portion of resources brought back to the realm of magic. Travellers to other realms are also entitled to keep any additional materials found during missions. Which can be sold to the business at reasonable prices.
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