Kingdom trades and resources y3m1/ thread 12

As of Year 3 Month 1

Pending/ongoing projects: Ft. Minx construction (About 40% done, limited shipyard capability)

This years taxation of the nobles came out to be 35 talents

Talents are a measurement of how much money from the royal treasury it takes to perform a project and the labor it takes

36.5 talent units ready for instruction upon payment/labor agreement

Open trade agreement with Brookwing: TBA, pending more information from Zyzmic

This month you acquired (In units) 2 wheat, 3 apple, 4 timber, 4 wine, 2 silver, 1 titanium, and 1 slate from your kingdoms natual resources, and gained 3 units of Marineberry and 2 units (+personal package of arctic linen) from a trade with House Regalia to the northeast



Kingdom trade resources (In units): 7 wine, 6 wheat, 5 apple, 1 citrus, 3 Marineberry, 9 sugar cane, 5 gem, 12 timber, 2 Arctic linen, 4 Chitinite(Ore), 4 Changeling Dye, 2 silver, 2 granite, 1 titanium, and 1 slate

Wine: Trade value high, usability low
Takes one year to make after fall harvest, a specialty of the southern region

Wheat: Trade value moderate, usability high
Used to make many types of food once ground

Apples: Trade value low, usability high
Fresh and juicy

Citrus: Trade value moderate, usability high
A crop that grow south of your current borders, high nutritional properties

Marineberry: Trade value moderate, usability high
Berries that grow in very cold and dry climates, known for it's deep blue color used in dyes and paints

Spices: Trade value very high, usability low
Intensely flavored powers and grinds from plants that grow to the far south

Salmon: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
A fish that swims in rivers and seas of the north, delectable to meat-eaters and omnivorous ponies alike

Timber: Trade value moderate, usability high
Wood, good for everything from homes to ships to pyres and rams

Arctic linen: Trade value moderate, usability high
A fine, soft cotton fabric, great to use for most garments from nightgowns to generals uniforms, loomed by House Regalia for generations

Iron: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
Basic metal in pure form right from the mines

Titanium: Trade value very high, usability moderate
Newly discover metal with superior qualities in the right hooves

Copper: Trade value low, usability moderate
Can be used to create bronze, very conductive of certain energies on its own

Misc metals: other types too low to be counted in units until discovery of major source is found

Chitinite: Trade value high, usability moderate
A metal that forms under ancient changeling hives, very hard to work with but has magic properties

Silver: trade value high, usability very low
A precious metal, mainly used in currency and jewelry (Can convert to 1 talent per unit)

Gold: Trade value very high, usability low
A precious metal, mainly used in currency, jewelry, and some obscure magic (can convert to 2 talents per unit)

Granite: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
Natural stone, beautiful when polished, harder than marble

Marble: Trade value very high, usability moderate
A beautiful form of pressed limestone, used in art and ornate architecture, with varied types

Slate: Trade value very low, usability high
A dark grey stone good for construction and stonecraft

Gems: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
Beautiful tiny geological formations, used in jewelry and magical items

Elkflax: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
A new material from the north that can make strong but flexible fabric, string, and rope

Arctic cotton: Trade value low, usability moderate
A soft cotton that grows in a tough plant in tundras, used to make arctic linen, hard to process without tools and training

Changeling dye: Trade value high, usability high
A dye made from ground changeling corpses, dark and surprisingly non-reflective

Fruit dye: Trade value high, usability high
Various dyes of bright natural colors, smells vaguely of the fruit it looks like

Blood dye: Trade value moderate, usability moderate
A dye made from concentrated blood and iron, gives a rich, ruby red color to nearly anything

Marine dye: Trade value high, usability high
A dye made from marrineberries, a specialty craft of the House Regalia, hard to create and takes time