That's just not true, that's not what trade goods does. It makes the EIC a trade company that we have been helping grow. In no way does it "ensuring the economic co-dependence." And what do you mean not act for profit it still does act for profit, it just knows that damaging the empire is bad for profit. The EIC is already plenty powerful and is going to still be growing a great deal with the canals and bridge.
The longer time goes on, the more prestigious and well-stocked our Library will be too, though, so we'd have more to offer in any potential book trade, especially as we accrue books from across the continent. All in all I think it balances out, or at least wouldn't be that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
All trade creates codependency? Larger scale trade creates greater dependencies between trading partners.
Yes and trade is a thing that is going to happen, whether or not the EIC does it will not effect the total amount just who does it. Eleven trade is happening anyway this is just giving the EIC a good deal of free trade goods. The EIC does not need the help to grow.
No? Trade requires arrangements, infrastructure, people, etc. If money are not invested into trade, then trade is weak or entirely absent.
Both things are happening anyways, just slowly—we've been getting more and more access to the Library as time goes on, but we need deals or out of pocket purchases to accelerate that. More and more trade will spring up over time, but there's a lot of political resistance and we need to deal with each House individually. The Ithilmar deal is letting us choose one thing to happen less slowly.
That's the issue is that we can only get these books for somthing of military value to Laurelorn. We will not just get them over time. Also Marrisith can do that anyway the trade goods aren't needed for that.
Yes infrastructural and people that already exist, you know that bridge we made or perhaps the canal that we spendt our boon on. All of that is helping the EIC it doesn't need more help. We have already been empowering a single trade company too much. And eleven trade is soooo lucrative that it will have quickly no matter what.
You know, I had completely forgotten about that. Gonna have to add it to my vote soon.
...but that's wrong? That's just objectively wrong. Lots of people have pointed out why it's wrong, and the story results that are pretty much guaranteed to come of it.
Alith Anar was already a master of infiltration and stealth before the birth of Sigmar, I doubt he wouldn't detect even us. What I can imagine is Mathilde going back to her tent, seeing no one in there, turning around for one second and then see AA.
Agree to disagree, they're going to be referenced in a research action and maybe used as props for the scene. But these books probably aren't going to wind up with us doing anything we weren't already planning on doing, except now with maybe a +3 or 4 to some dice roll.
Except that's not what happened with the elementalist books. The restricted information in that library includes stuff on the slan and the old ones and on Albion. More secrets besides.
