Herald of Steel - Chapter 1429: Counting Houses (Part-3)

... as only by sticking together, collaborating, and fixing prices could these businesses stay alive.

Otherwise, these gold laden geese would have been long slaughtered by the greedy nobles and kings.

Hence in Tibias, it had by now even become almost a custom for sons and daughters of the large trading houses to marry each other, turning all of them into nearly a giant family run conglomerate.

This was also mainly how these guilds and counting houses found the guts to swap c ...