Ezerdúrum
The city of Ezerdúrum lies at the mouth of the Porphyra River where it empties into the Gulf of Irkaina. A major trading port, Ezerdúrum has long sought to rival grand Mérsíni as the primary wool center for the principality. Cut off from the Ilanos basin by the Ágaç Hills, Ezerdúrum has only ever managed to draw in folks from the southeastern edges of the hill country. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the nobility and merchants of Ezerdúrum are even more prideful and arrogant than the famed beys of Ágaç. Many of the beys who trade in Ezerdúrum run smaller farms than those to the north, but they claim their wool is of higher quality due to the nature of their south-facing hill country.
Gold was discovered last year in the neighboring Büyük Dâg Mountains. This led to thousands of fortune seekers flooding into the city, with some from as far away as Akados. This swelled the sleepy city’s population and a large tent city grew up outside the walls. Pasha Sohret Ozgen welcomes the needed income as well as the boom in trade, and is collecting a tax on every ounce of gold that passes through the city. The Council of Worthies are less pleased by this turn of events and, although willing to make fortunes off of the gold rush, they do not hesitate to pass laws that hamper the newcomers. A growing feud between the locals and the gold rush followers is growing, and already a few physical altercations have occurred in the city’s streets.
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