02 - Iron Kingdoms W.. - Captain Spud Is Amazing

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86 Iron Kingdoms
mysterious kingdom into other lands.
From what I know, Iosan goods are all
of the highest quality and produced with
such obvious care and skill that a price
is at first very difficult to name. Parting
with goods like this can be difficult, even
for a seasoned merchant like myself.
Iosan weaponry, alchemy, and
magic are also extremely rare. I’ve
seen beautifully crafted elven swords
sell for a king’s ransom, and then there
are Iosan firearms. I’ve seen but one.
Finely crafted, extremely light, and
surprisingly functional—the duke who
fired it boasted he could drop a mawg
at a hundred paces. I didn’t see him do
it, but why would a Llaelese nobleman
lie about something like that? Hah!
Anyhow, I’ve heard Iosan blades keep
their edge for decades, their wines never
seem to sour, and the gears of elven
clockworks are whisper quiet and never
fail. Elven goods are always snapped up
as quickly as they appear on the market.
Only a fool would pass up a work of
elven craft.
—Gunner Wadock, Cygnaran tradesman
Rhul
It’s easier to pry the teeth from a
dracodile than it is to get a dwarf to
spend his coin. Most trade in Rhul is
done through complicated agreements
and contracts bound up in the legal
culture founded by their great moot.
Luckily, outsiders seem to be part of a
clause in the moot’s ruling and a good
trader with a dwarven ally can usually
find work getting trade goods out of
Rhul for a good price and selling them
for even higher profit.
—Gunner Wadock, Cygnaran tradesman
Ghordson Heavy Armaments
Ghordson Heavy Armaments—often shortened
to “Ghordson Arms”—is among the most successful
businesses in Ghord and an inspiration to striving
clans throughout Rhul. The company is closely
affiliated with Great Clan Hrord for obvious reasons:
after his kinsmen were dishonored and stripped of
their titles for acts of banditry, a clanless dwarf named
Pulgar was taken in by the Hrord clan. Embarrassed,
Pulgar put his efforts into making good and he quickly
turned out to be Hrord’s most exceptional mechanic;
indeed, Pulgar was considered a prodigy.
After decades of service, the dwarf petitioned to
start his own clan, sponsored by the Stone Lord of
Hrord himself. His bid was passed and Pulgar took
on the name of Ghordson as a sign of his love for
the city and his loyalty to its people. In the past sixty
years, the clan has risen considerably and is expected
to join the Moot of the Hundred Houses. Pulgar
Ghordson gambled fifty years ago and constructed his
first steamjack foundry, which soon became a primary
source of revenue for his family.
Pulgar passed away three decades ago but was
succeeded by his eldest of six sons and five daughters,
a dwarf named Durgarl (male Rhulic Exp9/Ftr2),
who acts as the clan head and the controller of
Pulgar’s outfit, Ghordson Heavy Armaments. When
the company really caught on, it initially earned its
reputation for its cannons and heavy rifles but soon
branched out to all facets of warjack armament and
engineering. Indeed, Great Clan Hrord relies heavily
on the Ghordson Arms foundries for ‘jack components
and for help with innovating new designs, and their
services have also been contracted by the Udo and
Uldar clans as well as heavy mining operations in