RE: Not Another Hero
01-15-2012, 11:54 PM
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When he disappeared, my father left a realm that was in pretty terrible shape. We were a second-rate nation at best, thanks to the uprising. We had a few cities clogged with starving laborers out of work and a smattering of farming villages. Our only source of income was the iron ore found in the western mountains. The nobility, the merchants and the peasants all hated each other - with good reason - and that was just the humans.
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Lumber shortages were widespread thanks to the thorn pixie raids, and the sea sylph regent was threatening to blockade our ports in an attempt to squeeze a tax from our merchant vessels. Our only help came from the granite gnomes who will gladly work for food - and they eat rocks.