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What would the political mechanism to this be? Would it be a guild of coins or a warden of coins or would there be a coin guard? Who would control and protect the minting process? Do they only mint the cities coins? Was this something that used to be done at Kul Moren but was moved to the city for comvienance to the trade route and the population or was this something that sprung up in the city on it's own? DO they collect old worn coins for melting down and re-minting?
 

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I was thinking it would be one of the mints of a greater kingdom. In fact while some townspeople might be aware, it might be a "secret" location to the rest of the kingdom. There would be the Coin Knights guarding it, in the employ of the king/queen. Coins would be minted for a large part of the kingdom, and for the city itself. Reminting is definitely feasible.

If some of those answers arent in line with what youve already got, no prob, I havent read everything. Ie- if there is no greater kingdom that Mor's End is a part of, substitute Mor's End for Kingdom.

I would put gnomes in charge of the "finances" and dwarves in charge of the labor.

Technik
 

Thanks for the offer of being put in charge of something (the history thing) but to quote American Beauty, I'm looking for the least possible amount of responsibility.

I will nonetheless try to contribute something tonight.
 

Hey -- I posted a big history synthesis to a new thread on history and religion.

If people object to the creation of yet another thread, I'll move it here.
 

Can some-one post all the links related to Mor's End? It would make it so much easier to find things and save them.
 



Okay... very, very rough idea of city crest. Grey, black, and yellow are the colours of Enworld, so I chose those for the colours of the crest. The gold circles represent coins, for this is the city of coins. They could be several different types, or all representations of Mor's End coinage. I'd suggest that this is not the original crest, but was developed after Mor's End became a trade hub - so within 150 years, IIRC from the history.

Though the coins seem too far down, I intend the space above to be filled with various other crests. For example, the city watch may have a lantern in the centre. The city guard may have a gate, while the castellan has a scroll, etc., etc. The crest is also simple, allowing it to be stiched onto the Muster's padded armour, painted on shields, and scaled down to form small badges of office and the like.

Lastly, this doesn't follow the rules of heraldry. Most notably, I've disregarded the law of tincture (metals must go on colors and vice versa). I feel this is justified by both historical precedence (most people never bothered) and the fact that Mor's End is a frontier to the wilds - who cares if the crest is by the book, as long as it lets us tell friend from foe!

The words, or course, are not part of the coat-of-arms. Again, this is a rough idea, made in paint. I'm sure I agree with any disparaging remarks about the quality of the drawing - it's just an idea roughly fleshed out, not at all what it'd look like finished.
 

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I never thought of a crest for the city before... Interesting... (goes off to research crests and heraldry... cuz he don't know jack about it)

--sam
 

Grey, black, and yellow... keep in mind that a good deal of Mor's End's wealth is based on sapphires, so blue would be *very* appropriate as well.

I would suggest black, dark grey and blue for the crest. Instead of a diagonal black bar, we could have a horizontal one, to even further match the color scheme on EN World.

How about something like this:
 

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