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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1453580" data-attributes="member: 16221">Most of what you know... indeed, most of what your entire country knows of the lands to the south are heresay.  You do know of the great mountain city, Lowgate, mostly because it sits on top of the only pass through the Lowly Peaks known to merchants, who do travel between the countries (but always with quite a few guards).  The tales merchants tell are not confirmed, and many of them are almost undoubtably fabricated from whole cloth.The lands to the south are said to be as good and the lands to the north are evil.  They say there is no poverty, no crime, no hunger, no sickness or disease.  They say even the politicians are uncorrupt, and that the public is civil out of a sense of inate morality as opposed to fear of retribution.  The streets are paved with gold and silver, and building's foundation stones are diamond.Trinkets sold by these merchants may be more telling.  Clocks are one of the more common goods sold by them, as well as a large number of mechanical toys.  They say that the lands to the south have better things, but said better mechanical contrivances would not work in the north.  No further explanation is given.The merchants ask in trade both gold and silver, as well as certain herbs that apparently only grow in the north.They do not speak of armies.  Nor of generals.  They do say that the knights and earls and dukes and lords and esspecially the king of the south are kind, softhearted men who treat their people well.  It would probably be unwise to underestimate them by this statement though... if they are kind to their own people, it probably means they will defend their people like a mother bear defends her cubs.</blockquote>

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