Imazon
Of all the cities of Pelshtaria, Imazon has the Council of Worthies with the greatest power. Other cities might have influential councils, but in Imazon the pasha is clearly there to do little more than sign anything the council passes. The Council of Worthies appoints all officials, makes and passes all laws, and decides criminal cases by circumventing the courts and feudal rights in place of trying cases itself.
This does not mean that the old feudal system is gone, just that the power is now in the hands of the lower nobility: the beys. All the seats on the council are held either by the beys themselves or by their toadying hirelings. Even the powerful merchants’ guilds of the city are beholden to the beys, for if those nobles decide not to sell their wool in Imazon, they might just ship it to another port.
It is the trade in wool, wheat, and other agricultural products that drives the economy of Imazon. The interior of the Pelshtarian Peninsula is rich land. There are few sources of mineral wealth, but there is plenty of room to ranch and farm, as well as centuries of farmsteads evolving into estates, and estates merging into larger affairs. Wool, both raw cloth and that cut and dyed by the city’s artisans, is the main export, but wheat, barley, olives, oil, and fruit are loaded into waiting vessels for shipment around the Sinnar Ocean.
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Imazon, City of
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