Trade in Rose

Rose’s trade centers on the export of arcane goods, such as spellbooks, scrolls, and magical reagents, as well as minerals, stones, and other components used as catalysts in spellcraft.

Trade Routes

• Runeroad: Rose’s major thoroughfare, paved in stone and magically illuminated at night. It circles the kingdom and connects all major cities.

• The Fangh River: Rose’s widest river, flowing from the southernmost reaches of the kingdom to the Southern Seas. It links Rose to several realms, including Lothen and the Trident Empire.

• Merchant Roads & Wagon Trails: Secondary routes that extend to villages and towns not directly connected to the Runeroad.

• Surrounding Kingdoms: Rose exports livestock to the Darklands of the west via the kingdom of Goliath. It also trades with Mooncry to the north and the Freelands just east of its borders.

Primary Exports

• Spellbooks, Scrolls & Arcane Components: Renowned for its magical scholarship, Rose’s scriptoriums and guilds export finely bound grimoires, charged scrolls, and essential reagents for mages and healers.

• Refined Metals & Alchemical Alloys: Smelters in Rose blend mundane ore with arcane catalysts to create alloys used in enchanted arms, instruments, and intricate mechanisms.

• Glasswork & Instruments: Rosean artisans craft precision lenses, astrolabes, and crystal apparatus sought by scholars and navigators alike.

• Perfumes & Fine Goods: Distillers and perfumers along the Rosean coast produce fragrant oils, soaps, and luxury goods favored by highborn courts.

Primary Imports

• Stone & Timber (From Mooncry): Imported limestone, oak, and pine fuel Rose’s construction of academies, towers, and other structures.

• Grain & Livestock (From the Forklands): Essential staples, wheat, barley, and beef feed Rose’s dense urban populations.

• Silver & Coinage (From Lothen): Trusted Lothenian silver underpins Rose’s minting and treasury reserves.

• Silk & Exotic Goods (From the Trident): Rare spices, foreign silks, and curiosities supply Rose’s elite and its thriving merchant quarter.

• Salted Meats & Preserves (From Lothen): Vital imports for long voyages and provisioning city garrisons.

• Marble (from Orkandus): Vital for various constructions.

Key Trade Partners

• The Forklands: Provide grain and livestock, silver and coinage, as well as other preserves.

• The Trident: Provides silk and exotic goods, salt, and other commodities.

• Mooncry: Supplies necromancy and medicine ingredients, as well as stone and timber.

• Goliath: Provides reagents, components, books, and scrolls.

• Orkandus: Provides marble.

Rosian Currency

Rose’s currency consists entirely of gold and is divided into three denominations:

• The Gold Mark: 1 gold piece

• The Gold Crown: 10 gold pieces

• The Gold Rose: 100 gold pieces