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            <title>Weights and Measures in Gynk</title>
            <author>GAST</author>
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            <paragraph>There exist hundreds of different units worldwide. Each region has its own. Even having the same name would not guarantee that the same length or weight is described. The best example is the foot. Its length varies if you trade with a tall elf or short dwarf.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>The Gynk Association for Standards and Trade (GAST) make the standardization of weights and measures their business. The Gynk Harbour Authority supports the work and stated that the normalized units of the GAST have to be used for each trade at the Gynk harbour, if not explicitly agreed otherwise. Each petition to Gynk's court must also contain measures and weights in GAST units.</paragraph>
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            <headline>Weights</headline>
            <paragraph>Blub - It is an often told fairy tale, the blub goes back to a crazy alchemist, and weights everything in multiples to blueberries. Whether true or not remains to be seen, but an average blueberry weights about a blub. In Gynk a blub is defined as 25th part of a lump.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Quarter or quarter blub - Alchemists, gem traders and gold smiths often use parts of a blub. The weight of gems and herbs are measured in quarter blubs or shortened to quarter.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Lump - Usually coal, ore and other trading goods are measured in lumps. One lump contains 25 blubs. The GAST have comparison weights to check the weights of the merchants and seafarers. These weights are made of merinium and called the Gynk Master Lumps. A personal copy can be purchased at the GAST house.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph>Man or manload - Larger quantities are measured in manloads or shortened mans. It is not the weight of a man or the load a man can carry. It originally came from the load, a docker is paid for. There are people now, who can carry three manloads at once. A manload has 48 lumps, often rounded to 50. Be aware if you trade with halflings. In Pennymill a manload has only 36 lumps. At the harbour in Gynk all trade has to be done in Gynk manload.</paragraph>
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            <headline>Counts</headline>
            <paragraph>Counts are rather simple. Special descriptions are the dozen (12), the Gobaith chest (250) and the divine thousand (1024).</paragraph>
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            <headline>Length and Distances</headline>
            <paragraph>Roote or ruthe - It is roundabout the distance normal men can pass with 3 ordinary steps. Another source of the length might be roods or roots but few reach that length. Within the main GAST house a merinium tile is put on the wall. It is exact one roote long and one roote width. Some copies are laid into the plaster of the market and the piers. Due to these stone tiles in the size of a roote, a roote often is called a tile.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>There is a fairy tale about a realm blessed with resources and brave crafters that never became rich. The nobles ruled with the length of a lashing rod to punish those breaching length regulations that did not have exactly one roote. But the executioners took whatever they could cut from a naldor tree and redefined the length of a roote instead. So with each execution the definition of the roote changed and caused new rule breaks.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph>Arrow - This is the distance an experienced archer can reach with a very good bow. It is 10 rootes long.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Cat or catwalk - A fairy tale says it is the distance a cat can walk away from a village and find it's way back. The Gynk cat has 25,6 arrows or 256 rootes and is used for larger distances. It is often used as doublecats as well. It has 512 rootes.</paragraph>
            <paragraph>Fathom or faden - Sailors and tailors are use this length often. One fathom contains 7 yarns, sometimes called gems as well. In the GAST house, one can buy a normal fathom that has seven coloured sections in equal length. Treacherous merchants or a mouse cannot cut the fathom without getting found out.</paragraph>
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