McKeough Mining Conglomerate

The was a quicksilver mining company on Telrion operated by the McKeough Clan.
== History ==
The McKeough Mining Conglomerate dominated the area near the town of Geat’s Bail at the time of the Fialta-Shantine War. Their operations expanded dramatically at the time, but like most mining corps on the planet, the end of the war was the end of the boom, and the next decade was a period of cutthroat competition—many mine bosses resorted to underhanded means to maintain and expand their control. Meanwhile, the miners themselves and the kobold slaves used the chaos to improve their lot. This culminated in with a raid ordered by Ian McKeough.
Suffering under a mining strike, McKeough sent some mercenaries and made a pact with a Telranian Clan (al-Rihya, the Wind Riders) to burn the town and break the strikers will. However, a heroic figure, Sheriff Fergus “Wild Eyes” organized a defense of the town, and drove back the attackers. The mercenaries were scattered, and the telrionese abandoned the cause of McKeough and turned on him, sensing that it would be far more valuable to plunder his mine than try to fight the stiff resistance of the townspeople. In the chaos of the raid, many kobolds escaped their bonds and fled into the desert. Fergus, pushed on by the business owners of the town, took the posse and “restored order” to several mines, with the help of the escaped kobold slaves. These, naturally, were added to the small Tantalite Mine (a product traditionally associated with forging, apparently essential in traditional Adamantine crafts) owned by Felli Lintair to create a larger independent mine, one whose profits allowed the town to retain a fair parcel of independence for the next decade.
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