2nd-26th of Ymiden, Arc 718
The first homes would be those of miners. Not unlike Yurrova, Acadia - or its foundations - was surrounded by mountains, high and proud. Many of them held veins and openings ripe for shafts, with plentiful materials local to the area: stone, iron and steel, gold, and even gems. Of course, the wish was always in finding a vein of onyx, but it didn't matter what he found - necessarily - or in what order he found it. What mattered was building infrastructure below and around the base of the city, bringing jobs and opportunities to the area, and stacking laborers and their families into homes where they could shepherd the development of the city.
To that end, he had invested - almost literally - all of his gold into this project. Nineteen thousand and five hundred nel. It was a "community revitalization project", within which he'd funneled workers in from Ki'eiran, a place where he was considerably influential. Of course, these were men and their families who had no work to do and nothing to spend their idle time on, save for watching their copper nels winnow on a daily basis, falling deeper into the pit of drunkenness and unemployment.
Alistair, once again, had come through to provide them an opportunity... at the behest, apparently, of Kaelserad. But the wealth that would come from these mines, and these men, was not to be distributed directly to the hospital. It was merely an assurance, for not only the hospital, but for his other lofty goals.
The mining operation was not to be a business directly ran by him, but a funded investment contracted out to other, smaller groups of men, women and their direct family and friends. Alistair was much more a profit holder and lender to these groups, and so his profits did not in fact directly emerge from the rocks and gems, but the investment and interest payments allowed by the products. He determined that, ultimately, investing into the infrastructure of Acadia... its mines, lumberers and other mills, farmers and craftsmen, would ultimately do far better for both long-term revenue and regional influence.
As such, the task began, and already he'd had plans laid out to him by the laboring men.
The first homes would be those of miners. Not unlike Yurrova, Acadia - or its foundations - was surrounded by mountains, high and proud. Many of them held veins and openings ripe for shafts, with plentiful materials local to the area: stone, iron and steel, gold, and even gems. Of course, the wish was always in finding a vein of onyx, but it didn't matter what he found - necessarily - or in what order he found it. What mattered was building infrastructure below and around the base of the city, bringing jobs and opportunities to the area, and stacking laborers and their families into homes where they could shepherd the development of the city.
To that end, he had invested - almost literally - all of his gold into this project. Nineteen thousand and five hundred nel. It was a "community revitalization project", within which he'd funneled workers in from Ki'eiran, a place where he was considerably influential. Of course, these were men and their families who had no work to do and nothing to spend their idle time on, save for watching their copper nels winnow on a daily basis, falling deeper into the pit of drunkenness and unemployment.
Alistair, once again, had come through to provide them an opportunity... at the behest, apparently, of Kaelserad. But the wealth that would come from these mines, and these men, was not to be distributed directly to the hospital. It was merely an assurance, for not only the hospital, but for his other lofty goals.
The mining operation was not to be a business directly ran by him, but a funded investment contracted out to other, smaller groups of men, women and their direct family and friends. Alistair was much more a profit holder and lender to these groups, and so his profits did not in fact directly emerge from the rocks and gems, but the investment and interest payments allowed by the products. He determined that, ultimately, investing into the infrastructure of Acadia... its mines, lumberers and other mills, farmers and craftsmen, would ultimately do far better for both long-term revenue and regional influence.
As such, the task began, and already he'd had plans laid out to him by the laboring men.
