The Aureliad Consortium
The Aureliad Consortium is a rising mercantile power out of the eastern ports of Aurea, formed from the union of three otherwise unlikely partners: the financier houses of Narbonne, the mining concerns of Vistria, and the shipping magnates of Milosia. Whereas some of their competitors on the Betshaban Ocean move by ledger, charter, and the slow accretion of custom, the Consortium moves by capital. It buys in fast, prices low, pays its factors handsomely, and binds men to it through patronage rather than bureaucracy. To its partners it is a vehicle for fortunes that none of the three could amass alone; to its rivals it is a foreign intrusion that arrived without warning and now threatens to swallow maritime trade across all three continents. To the merchants and rulers of Duria, in particular, the Consortium whiffs too strongly of the tactics of the Old Empire from the Third Age of Man.
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