Kumarc

Kumarc is a city located along the very northern coast of the Kingdom of Lauchette. The city is best known throughout its homeland as the heartland of the Kingdom's wine production, and well maintains the reputation thanks to its region's favorable growing environment, which has given rise to vast vineyards with extremely lucrative yields. Positioned at the northern coast of Lauchette, Kumarc also acts as one of the closest trading hubs to the Hallenic mainland, facilitating the flow of commerce as it provides many incoming and departing fleets a valuable stop throughout their trips.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Kumarc has its origins as a small Egrilian farming village located further inland from the coast, with minimal recognition from the world around it. It wouldn't be until other locales in the region began expanding their trading involvement with neighboring Lauch settlements that the small village would find its chance to step out of its circle. The village's local overseer of the time, Grand Magistrate Judikael Pierrick, saw a potential opportunity from trade, making a gamble in directing the local farmers to diversify their crops from typical subsistence practices in an effort to steer some of the wealth of the region's trade in the town's direction. The gamble would pay off, with Egrilian farmers finding the grape vineyards in particular to grow remarkably well in the local climate, even moreso than what was initially predicted. From here, it would not take long before the first wineries of Kumarc would be erected, and as the winemakers' crafts were perfected, so too would the village's reputation and local trading power.
=== Present ===
Kumarc would go on to grow remarkably quickly, eventually becoming one of the largest and most economically dominant municipalities in the Lauch north. The city would go on to be briefly besieged in the initial Imperial invasion during the War of Daggers, but would ultimately hold out, becoming a point of safe refuge for many neighboring settlements in the Egrilian heartland. These refugee communities, consisting largely of Egrilian and even some Lauch families, would eventually integrate themselves into the city proper, further bolstering its population of workers.
Today, Kumarc stands as one of the central economic hubs of northern Lauchette, the region itself providing for a large percentage of domestic production and overseas exports of Lauch wine. Kumarc also serves as one of the largest population centers of the Egrilian people, remaining a culturally dominant force in the region, maintaining a syncretized society with the growing Lauch minority which has come to grow over the recent years, pursuing the city's economic success.
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