The Intrigues of Irawaddy Get Deeper


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• The Seaman's Association works with the El Wahafi's organization but are not happy with their monopoly of the salt production. El Wahafi is beginning to dictate prices and slowly raising them. The merchants are now putting pressue on the docks to lower their prices. Also, El Wahafi is threatening to build his own docks. The Seaman's Association would dearly like some leverage against El Wahafi.

   

• The Slavers have not traditionaly associated too much with other businesses in Irawaddy. There is some social stigma against them. However, recently some of El Wahafi's top lieutenants have been seen heading south more than once and entering the Slavers' compound.

   

• Many of the slave are picked up from the tribes that line the coast between Irawaddy and South Helios, but recently North Helion warships have been coming from the south with captured soldiers. They sell the slaves and then use the profits to buy weapons.

   

• The Nagoni, though not as involved in the commerce conflicts, are also not comfortable with El Wahafi's monopolization of the salt trade. There are rumours that he is looking to eventually move into the fruit trade as well.

   

   

• The raid on the stronghold at Westpit is common knowledge in Irawaddy now. But some in the know have heard say that El Wahafi lost more than salt in the incident. Why else would he be trying so hard to find those responsible in the city when everyone knows it was the Salt Raiders who did it?

   

Getting inside Linear's head while he was sitting and talking with Lady Grandisse

As you lay in your bed, thinking here and there about the day, your thoughts wander back to your time spent in the garden with Lady Grandisse. It was a beautiful place, but so constrained by the hand of man. Each plant was an amazing specimen, but their relation to one another was ordered by the grid that orders these cities, rather than the unguiding chaos of nature. Her words, too, were a drone of gossip and human confusion, like a beehive that never knew it's queen. But as you think about what she was saying, some of it resonates. She always refered to her husband's business as Labor Importing, but you also sensed some bitterness in her. When Threnoble was alive, her neighbors never invited them to lunch and she certainly never went to Kaseem for a social visit. But suddenly two weeks ago, some of the wives of the Salt Officers had come over and a week later two officers came with a gift from El Wahafi himself, a beautiful hand wrought chair. And now, she had heard from the man who ran her husband's estate that the Salters had made a couple of visits to his old offices to the south, talking about some kind of mutually beneficial business arrangement. "The Salters and the Slavers-er the importers- making a business arrangement! Can you imagine. Why when Threnoble was alive, they wouldn't even talk to him. Some said they were scared. And he was such a dear man..."