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− | The '''Northern Interests Trading Company''' is a mercantile business |
+ | The '''Northern Interests Trading Company''' is a mercantile business which has an interest in settling and exploiting the [[Pantheon]] isles for commercial purposes, namely selling [[Aviar]] to people on the [[mainland]].{{book ref|sixth}} |
== History == |
== History == |
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− | The company |
+ | The company staged a preliminary scientific exploration to [[Patji (island)|Patji]], aiming to test some scientific equipment it had acquired from the [[Ones Above]]. The stated goal of the mission was to find out why only Aviar raised on Patji had powers while birds raised elsewhere did not. They brought two hundred soldiers, one hundred scientists and merchants, and two [[ironhull]]s armed with cannons. They sent an expedition lead by a reluctant [[Vathi]] to scout the other side of the island for a location where they can build a second outpost. [[Sixth of the Dusk (character)|Dusk]] found a ruined campsite that had been used by the members of this expedition before a [[deepwalker]] had attacked them. He was frustrated that they had not heeded his warnings and had come to Patji anyways, sealing their fate. He later found Vathi, who had survived the attack, stuck in one of his traps near his base. She explained the full extent of the company's plans to him.{{book ref|sixth}} |
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|We found instructions in the machine... A manual on its workings, left there as if accidentally by someone who worked on it before. The manual is in their language, but the smaller machine I have... it translates. |
|We found instructions in the machine... A manual on its workings, left there as if accidentally by someone who worked on it before. The manual is in their language, but the smaller machine I have... it translates. |
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− | When they reached the company's fortress on the other side of the island |
+ | When they reached the company's fortress on the other side of the island Vathi discovered that her coworker, [[Winds]], had gone ahead and opened their latest 'gift' from the ones above, a device which can track Aviar on a large scale. Dusk tried to convince the workers that to do so would be dangerous, but his words failed him and he was ignored. A short while later, terrified, Vathi came to Dusk and told him that in that machine they had discovered the true intentions of the Ones Above. She told him that they had found a manual in their language inside the device they had been given by the Ones Above. |
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|They may be cunning, but they have not lived on Patji. We will gather the other trappers. We will not let ourselves be taken in. |
|They may be cunning, but they have not lived on Patji. We will gather the other trappers. We will not let ourselves be taken in. |
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− | When Vathi used |
+ | When Vathi used her translating device on the manual she discovered their benefactors' true motives. She said that it explained the ideas behind the devices and that with time the scientists of the company could figure out how to make them for themselves. She realized that the she and the entire Northern Interests Trading Company were being manipulated by the Ones Above. According to their laws, the Ones Above were not allowed to trade with a society that was on a lower technological level than themselves. Therefore they were attempting to fast-track the natives to modernity so they could exploit them for their Aviar. Vathi recognized that things were too easy and went to Dusk in despair. He told her that they knew Patji better than the newcomers and could fight back and defend themselves from the invading foreigners.{{book ref|sixth}}. |
== Assets == |
== Assets == |
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=== Technology === |
=== Technology === |
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− | + | They have received various technologies from the Ones Above. One of these is a device which can map out the locations of all of the Aviar on the island. A second device that they have is a small device which Vathi found with one of the Ones Above who died while in their company. It can translate between their languages and point to the location of individual Aviar.{{book ref|sixth}} |
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− | They also have firearms |
+ | They also have firearms which use an explosive powder to fire a small arrow out of a metal tube. It is not clear if they received these guns from the Ones Above or if they developed them on their own.{{book ref|sixth}} |
=== Fortress === |
=== Fortress === |
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− | They have built a large walled fortress on the shores of Patji out of logs |
+ | They have built a large walled fortress on the shores of Patji out of logs. It has large wooden gates. They have guardposts on the upper walls as well as cannons to protect from approaching ships. They have two heavily armed and armored ironhulls docked at the fortress to protect them from the deepwalkers. |
== Employees == |
== Employees == |
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; [[Vathi]]: A clerk and one of the lead investigators on the trip |
; [[Vathi]]: A clerk and one of the lead investigators on the trip |
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− | ; [[Eusto]]: The captain of the |
+ | ; [[Eusto]]: The captain of the ships |
; [[Winds]]: One of the staff |
; [[Winds]]: One of the staff |
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== Notes == |
== Notes == |
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− | {{complete|[[User:Big Smooth|Big Smooth]] ([[User talk:Big Smooth|talk]]) 00:38, 16 January 2021 (UTC)}} |
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− | [[es:Compañía Comercial Intereses Norteños]] |