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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8421588" data-attributes="member: 93670">The dragonmark houses in eberron are basically fantasy proto-megacorps in a lot of ways.  In eberron the treaty of thronehold & korth accords severely limit them & keep them from taking another step.  Those wouldn't bind them in another sphere & athas just happens to be so awful that the people would try to drag them faster than they could themselves consider.  There's no need for a whip when simply restricting the plentiful food they bring in from another sphere solves any problems.  Overthrow them & the whole golden goose stops bringing in food for a couple weeks or months. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  The colonial force recognizes that athas itself is a crapshow that can't be fixed even if they wanted to because even they need to put limits on the good they can do  to keep the workforce from self destructing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIBpFDRr5g" target="_blank">like the chinese once did</a>  & the only way they could do that was to give them something inexpensive that makes them a better workforceYour slavedriver forced labor type spin makes athas a nice enough place to support such a thing.  Slavery already exists under some of he SK city states simply because slaves get to eat food/drink water and the economy is so destroyed that there's no way to feed everyone or pay everyone needed to keep things from collapsing further while still keepig rajat sealed.  Athas doesn't need a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KickTheDog" target="_blank">kick the dog</a>  puerile <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier" target="_blank">grimdark</a> version of what already exists in the "nice" parts of athas.  You mention</blockquote>

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