/Or at least the commerce of said world. Control the trade? Control everything./

[ At least that is what he noticed the longer he watched this seamy not quite war roll through Antiva. ]

/We have our line of kings unbroken for over a thousand years but the true power is in the hands of a conclave of merchant princes who are not exactly princes that run their individual armies against one another. The head of each industry has a crow or two on hand more often than not to keep themselves alive, provided no one else saw fit to pay them more to kill them./