Trademeet

Trademeet - Amn (Town, 6,000 natives in town, 3,000 in outlying farms and plantations)

While little more than a crossroads of two caravan routes, Trademeet stands out as the City of Merchants Peace. All deals made in this town are honest, aboveboard, and fair. In the Year of Great Riches (920 DR), Waukeen is said to have appeared on Shieldmeet at highsun within the stone circle at Trademeet. She wandered the markets and saw only false deals, poor products, and lying merchants. Enraged, she turned the dishonest High Merchant's hands into gold and doled his fingers out to wronged parties (hence the Amnian curse of Delosar's Fingers!). She then declared a Merchants Peace, which has remained unbroken to this day. Perhaps this honesty explains why Trademeet is the smallest of Amn's major caravan stops.

Major Products: Caravan services, agricultural trade.

Places of Note: Kapparthall is one of the fortified three story manors of the Coprith clan. Its Tethyrian architecture is accented by wild rose bushes climbing the walls. The estate was built with the grounds entrance outside the town, but with the manor house inside the town boundaries, placing it under the Merchants Peace so that all deals between the High Merchant and the families are painfully honest and forthright. The guards of Kapparthall are loyal only to Lord Coprith.

People of Influence: High Merchant (town mayor) and Lord Logan Coprith, the baby brother of Lady Aura Coprith, the head rebel of Riatavin. High Merchant Logan, a man of few words, left military life at Citadel Rashturl to take over his sister's family interests. As the High Merchants job goes to the most prosperous family head, Logan was immediately drafted. He established better training for town guards and other improvements that have made him a favored son of Trademeet in less than a year. The Alibakkar family (landowning, wine making and sales), led by the lazy, self-absorbed Lord Skarmaen Alibakkar, the third brother of senior Lord Erlranther Alibakkar (Meisarch of the Council of Six) and main employer in the area [see Estates, below]. Lady Lilith Lurraxol of the Lurraxols of Athkatla, her grandmother Ximora's favorite child and protege. She has been ordered to use her wiles on the High Merchant to reopen channels through Riatavin for the Lurraxol clan, but Logan has paid her no heed.

Other Sites: Alibakkar Estates: Nearly every square inch of land along the Tethir Road between Trademeet and Murann and north for 2 miles is owned by one merchant family, the Alibakkars. The land is parceled out in sectors and separated either by hedgerows or vineyards. Much of it is left for dry grazing lands for cattle and horses, especially closer to the coast, though the vineyards stretch for at least 20 miles west from the Trade Way. The rest of the land north of the Alibakkar estates is likewise broken up as pasture and farmland, but that is owned by the families Selemchant, Colwyvv, Gheldieg, and Bormul.

Bormton: All that remains of this village between Trademeet and Imnescar is burned-out rubble. This town was sacked and burned in early Marpenoth of the Year of the Bright Blade by rampaging Tethyrians, who heard that Bormton played host to folk whod fled during the 10 Black Days of Eleint. The village was burned to the ground not a tenday later.