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Master Greytalker
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Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:02 am
Bakluni Merchant Houses
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The bakluni conduct trade through various competitive merchant houses.
Curious, if these houses have been named and its affilation revealed...
Anyone 
Thanks in advance
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Master Greytalker
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Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:44 pm
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The only one I know of off the top of my head is the Mouqollad (sp?) Consortium, which has connections as far east as Nyrond and perhaps farther. I'll look into this if I can find any spare time.
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Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:08 am
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I do not know if the design was intentional but the bakluni merchant houses behave a lot like international corporations. From what little I could find the various bakluni merchant houses are hyper-competive towards each other and can span commodities, business ventures and even vast distances.
Actually the Mouqollad Consortium is a regional bakluni trade organisation. A bakluni SCC for the various bakluni merchant houses. It seems to have influence within the big four - Ekbir, Ket, Tusmit and Zeif. Opposition - Island Corsairs, Gulf of Ghayar and Ull - refuse to recognize the consortium.
Several general referrences to the merchant houses and their cut-throat business activities exist but nothing specific that I could find. Guess I could make some out of whole cloth.
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Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:04 pm
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Though not strictly Greyhawk, I found the City of Delights supplement from Al-Qadim to be a good stand-in for the City of Ekbir. In it they give details on a number of the merchant houses operating in the region.
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Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:27 am
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Sounds promising - out of stock at NK 
Know about a copy or PDF floating around
Info you can post on the merchant houses would be appreciated.
Better yet  - I smell a topic for a Postfest  
Certain postfest submissions could be included within the upcoming manuscript though that could be considered a hinderance rather then an enticement to some. 
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Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:06 pm
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| Crag wrote: |
| Actually the Mouqollad Consortium is a regional bakluni trade organisation. A bakluni SCC for the various bakluni merchant houses. It seems to have influence within the big four - Ekbir, Ket, Tusmit and Zeif. |
Ah. I forgot you may not be privy to everything that happened in the LG campaign. My bad. 
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