8. Reader's Domicile
Tower Location: Located east of the Matweed Breaks (Matted Brakes) and Maegnor Swamp, this Tower lies just north of a lake on the river Rundig.
Summary: Merchants with a reputation for a cold heart but absolute trustworthiness according to the terms of a deal.
Notes: The currency of Orin Rakatha (the Gest) is supported and printed by the Reader (which goes to show the extent they are trusted to honour deals). The Reader are one of the two major trading forces on the plane and are renowned as a very rich Tower. Although we have had some problems with the Reader over the years we mostly get on well with their merchants. Unlike the Dai-fah-Dyne they do not try to find loopholes in trade agreements. It is rumoured that the Valley Tower leader, Raucus, has close connections with their tower leader, Reader himself.
Their protection used to be provided by the Azad-An Tower in a alliance that had lasted for decades. Unfortunately for the Azad-An the Kalid Valdemar legion won this contract (reflecting the Readers emphasis on deals over ‘friends’) and eventually the Azad–An Tower collapsed, leaving a good portion of them to be ‘rehired’ directly into the Reader Tower (on what was rumoured to be cheap terms).
Colours: Red and Green (this used to reflect the alliance between Reader (Green) and Azad (Red) but is now accepted as the Reader colours alone; although most Reader now tend to wear predominantly Red, with no Green.
Activity Level: very active all over the plane