3011 Trading Co

The Anvilbeard Trading Company

Purveyors of finery at honest prices

The loss of one member of the Clan to a Guild other than that of Metal Workers or Mining is acceptable, the loss of one Clan member to Wayfaring or adventure is excusable, but the loss of six (we need an NPC to run the shop) young members of the Clan simultaneously was too much for the elders of Clan Anvilbeard to accept. After great deliberation and much discussion with the Ancestors the elders of Clan Anvilbeard came up with a way of saving face within Muttugr-Fell whilst removing from their Holm those who would spread descent should they be forced to remain.

After the pulling of many strings and favours within the Merchants Guild, Clan Anvilbeard established its first Merchant Family line. Knowing as they did the ways of the surface world and understanding that upon the surface was wealth for the taking the Elders of Clan Anvilbeard saw an opportunity to gain great wealth should the venture succeed.

Nobert ‘Spend thrift’ (NPC and GM plot device) eldest son of Kili Anvilbeard was appointed Magnate, and under his authority the Anvilbeard Trading Company was founded. Nobert ‘Spend Thrift’ having failed the ‘Trials Of Olsen’ several years earlier had already spent a year as ‘Assistant’ within one of the higher Merchant families and accepted his appointment as Magnate to the Anvilbeards Merchant family with glee, as for the other five members of the newly formed Merchant family line they saw the opportunity favourable to the alternative of permanent exile and accepted (although begrudgingly) their positions and planning began in earnest.

It was quickly established that within the spoils of conflict lay great riches and it was accepted by Norbert ‘Spend thrift’ that the majority of their sellable wares could at least in the beginning come from the spoils of adventuring, Norbert understood better than most that any wares obtained for free produce clear profit upon selling and as such would reduce the expenditure

considerably.

So it was that in the 15th year of the reign of Ragnar ‘Wyrms Bane’ Steward of Muttugr-Fell the Anvilbeard Clan established their first Merchant line, and with the blessing of their Clan Elders the Six companions set forth upon their journey.