Post by GhostofLandar on Jun 4, 2015 21:35:21 GMT
I was browsing the Voyage of the Moonstone just now and besides the language used to describe Dromodon (the Naar-worshipping gladiator) I was struck by one of the carriage rides costing 7 Gold Crowns. We are always paying 5 crowns for this, 10 for that, 20 even in some cases (wasn't the ride to Port Bax 20?) While I understand in economies depicted in this world, most people will not be traveling frequently, I'm trying to figure out what a day's wage is when 2-3 pieces of gold (gc's are gold and are likely not as thin as AMerican dimes) will buy you a place at an inn (maybe a meal) and where travelers and merchants are on the move just as much as contemporary people (and more arduously over long distances.) I mean, right now, I could not even eat and drive 10 hours. Not even a day elapses.
Lone Wolf or some merchant fellow may travel the same distance but in several days. This means eating, lodging, stabling and feeding of horses, bathing, etc. That seems to be fairly costly.
What is an annual or daily income in Gold Crowns for an average non-peasant?
After learning a great deal more about Venice in the middle ages, I'd also be interested in knowing (besides Casiorn, obviously) which countries grow rich from trade, which embrace a collective republican capitalism or mercantilism and which embrace the more individualistic Genoan, hyper-competitive side. Not that everything in our middle ages or ancient world has to have a Magnamundian analogue but I think that would be interesting.
Sommerlund, whatever it's feudal institutions, seems to have a real spirit of brotherhood and ethnic cohesion and relatively well-off peasants and freeholders (Ruanon.) Vassagonia and SHadakine also seem to support at least some portions of the people in wealth and luxury. Would Palmyrion or Anari be representative of a sort of early modern Republican form with some market characteristics?
Lone Wolf or some merchant fellow may travel the same distance but in several days. This means eating, lodging, stabling and feeding of horses, bathing, etc. That seems to be fairly costly.
What is an annual or daily income in Gold Crowns for an average non-peasant?
After learning a great deal more about Venice in the middle ages, I'd also be interested in knowing (besides Casiorn, obviously) which countries grow rich from trade, which embrace a collective republican capitalism or mercantilism and which embrace the more individualistic Genoan, hyper-competitive side. Not that everything in our middle ages or ancient world has to have a Magnamundian analogue but I think that would be interesting.
Sommerlund, whatever it's feudal institutions, seems to have a real spirit of brotherhood and ethnic cohesion and relatively well-off peasants and freeholders (Ruanon.) Vassagonia and SHadakine also seem to support at least some portions of the people in wealth and luxury. Would Palmyrion or Anari be representative of a sort of early modern Republican form with some market characteristics?