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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wizardoftheplains" data-source="post: 767119" data-attributes="member: 5703">I agree with this thinking.  Glittering Brotherhood has a strong control over the sapphire collection and cutting.Someone also suggested that the Lady Kelvin really controls the city with her wits.  I'm for that also.  Her power can be supplimented by a bit of magic, but the power of intrigue and political savy should win out here. (my opinion only<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A comment on the city size.  There is some back and forth on just how large the city.  Through the want of having many, many things in the city, it could easily become a huge metropolis.  But try working it with these suggestions.  (which have appeared elsewhere.)The city is a few hundred years old but is only 10,000 people.  Why?  Work in a reason for the size being what it is.   Perhaps periodic raids by BLANK or illness keep the population down.  The trade is good, but if the area is frontier land...what keeps it a frontier land?  Was it once bigger then it went through a war that knocked the population down?  Also, the sapphires could have only recently been discovered...say 6 years ago.  The reangers could have other reasons for working with the city.  they could be decendants of the first rangers in the area...whjen it was first settled, etc.  They could patrol the area out of tradition only.</blockquote>

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