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Corvaire — The Merchant Aristocracy
Corvaire is loud, warm, and intensely focused on reputation — family honour, commercial standing, and the careful management of both. It sits on Oestia’s southern coast, its capital Carathel built at the mouth of a great river where jungle waterways meet the open sea. It is almost certainly Oestia’s busiest port, a city where goods from across Vael pass through many hands before moving on.
Where Thyl looks inward to its forests and courts, Corvaire looks outward to the water. It is a nation of merchants, sailors, artists, and great families who have been arguing with each other about money and honour for generations. Governance here is distributed among those great families and trading houses rather than concentrated in a single crown — which makes it politically distinctive and perpetually interesting. The feuds between houses are cultural institutions. So are the marriages that end them, temporarily.
The jungle interior is largely unmapped beyond the river corridors that serve as Corvaire’s highways. What the deep jungle holds is, as yet, anyone’s guess.
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