Merchant Leagues

Merchant Leagues – These are powerful trade organizations used to promote, protect and organize trade throughout the northern regions. These organizations work to organize groups of merchants into mutually beneficial forms of cooperation such as organizing caravans and convoys, paying ransoms of members held hostage, organizing expeditions against bandits/pirates and even going to war with competing Leagues. From time to time Leagues support exploratory expeditions to set up new trade routes, locate valuable resources and even look for overseas locals that could be colonized. The main Leagues are the Northern Association of Merchant Venturers (operating along the northern coast), the Inner Sea Association (control trade on the Windy Sea), the Overmountain League (managing north-south trade over the Spine), the Eastern League (dominating inland trade East of the Windy Sea, and the League of Morence (dominating trade to the West of the Windy Sea). Other smaller Leagues have come and gone and major disruptions often result in the collapse or formation of new Leagues.

Structure

Numerous organizations with differing structures.

Public Agenda

Protect trade, block competition, maintain stability

Type

Financial, Merchant League