Meanwhile the Syndicate, via the Amajina & Sons Mineral Concern, hires adventurers to cull local coblyn populations that have been devouring the wealth of their mines.
The racism strategically employed by the Syndicate to drive competition out of the city is put on display, as the goblins they labelled beast-folk and exiled from Ul’dah now work to sabotage the machinery used to prepare the land for their idyllic retreat. They include culling local cactuar populations to ensure their needles are not stepped on, driving Yarzon nests out of the region to prevent their frightful appearance from scaring off the would-be tenants and sourcing earth sprite cores to strengthen the rapidly-flattening earth. The wealthy merchants of the Syndicate move their trade interests from one port to another, devastating the lives of their previous workers and transforming previously minor settlements, while in other areas they literally pound the land flat with huge, impractical machines in order to create and idyllic escape from having to live in the same city as refugees.įATEs of Hammerlea: Those FATEs centered on Hammerlea often focus on preserving the quality of life and property value of the wealthy oligarchs who are set to move into the region. When one studies the sites of interest in Western Thanalan one thing becomes obvious it is a landscape defined by the wealth disparity of Ul’dah. The landscape of the western coast is one of the most valuable and fertile in Thanalan, and thus is home to many, varied species as well as imported food crops, and threats such as the Garlean remnants in Cape Westwind. Western Thanalan is this access, positioned directly opposite Vylbrand and dotted with ports and thoroughfares aplenty.
Summary: Ul’dah is a plutocracy in the merest wrapping of a monarchy, and so it needs access not only to overland trade but also the eternally lucrative ocean trade routes.
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