Oh, nice. That's more ships than I was hoping to be able to wrangle for the expedition. With that many ships, it would be a good opportunity to send significant amounts of trade goods, including a wide assortment of Masterwork quality items, all of which have been Hardened for extreme durability. We can establish Sorcerer's Deep as a source for exotic goods in ports on the other side of the world.
Not to mention the fact that we now have full access to all trade goods from Lys, Myr, Tyrosh, Tolos, Mantarys, Naath, and the Basilisk Isles.
If we wanted, we could invite our vassals to send their own trade goods on the mission while giving us a cut of the profit for transportation fees. Alternatively, we just buy the unique trade goods from each major population center and leave them out of it. Either way works out fine.
We should also send all of the necessary personnel, equipment, and funds to establish an ACSEC office in Yi-Ti, @Azel. That would make a good long term mission for a pair of Erinyes, IMO, along with whoever else we assign.Not to mention the fact that we now have full access to all trade goods from Lys, Myr, Tyrosh, Tolos, Mantarys, Naath, and the Basilisk Isles.
We can use our Demiplane to do that much more easily and far faster than by ship.
I was aiming for Zhen He's Treasure Fleet, not "I've got nothing better to do with those guys".
We should just buy everything for simplicities sake. I especially want to include some goods from the PoE and special materials like Mythral and Adamantine.Not to mention the fact that we now have full access to all trade goods from Lys, Myr, Tyrosh, Tolos, Mantarys, Naath, and the Basilisk Isles.
That's one of my goals with this. Having an ACSEC office in Yi-Ti means that we win at trading forever.
On that note, I was thinking to open three gates:
Naath -- silk
Perfectly fair. Like I said, either way would have worked. Do we want to sell useful magic items, like Rings of PfE? What about enchanted mithral arms and armor? Our mage smiths can have that commissioned to them without interfering with our crafters.
No shit, Corlys Velaryon made one back-and-forth trip and earned enough wealth to propel his family into the major leagues of Westerosi politics, albeit temporality. Speaking of which, Valeana is coming along, right? You'd think she'd be interested in follwering her ancestors example.
You know, we could make the prize of the expedition a fine set of Valyrian Steel blades. It would be the ultimate signal to the far east that we're recovering the arts of Fallen Valyria.
The Saffron Straits, actually, which would imply there might be Saffron on Ulthos.
Selling them magic items wouldn't be worth the lost time quite yet.
Luxury dyes, then. You'd think with a resource like that they would have had a better treasury.
Selling enchanted mithral items at the very least would be fine, IMO. If we commission a bunch through our magesmiths then no time at all is lost for the crafters, and no crafting materials would be used.
I've currently penciled her in on treating with the Rhyone Fey. Mostly since that's a good shot for her to get some XP.
Sold. Make it so.
I know and one of the isles in that strait is apparently called Saffron Isle and gave the strait it's name.
With ACSEC Opaline Vault coming online, there is literally nothing we could do to prevent the spread of Adamantine. Well, baring the high cost, but that also means that we rake in quite some taxes and fees for each transaction.
Alchemical items, too. Basic stuff only, but it's one more exotic good from "the Far West".
I can arrange for the sacrifice of one Steel Devil. That is 6 Fiendish HD, which translates to 300 lbs of Valyrian Steel. Longswords weigh 3 lbs, Thinblades weigh 2 lbs, Greatswords weigh 8 lbs, etc. You guys can decide what combination you want. I honestly don't know the weights of the more exotic weapons, I'd have to do research. Maybe glaives like asian generals used to use? Jians? I dunno.
I'm pretty iffy on sending an excitable dragon around flammable ships. I'd prefer having her assigned to Tyene.
What if, along with pre-forged VS weapons, we arranged to take personalized orders?
I think a Jian should weigh about as much as a rapier, so we can argue for 2 lbs there.
@Azel @Crake @Goldfish, if needed we can easily sacrifice one or two more Steel Devils. These are honestly a drop in the bucket for the Larder, but the amount of Valyrian Steel they make per devil is hilariously good considering how little is needed to make a sword. We can totally do the commission thing if needed.