Curious Couatls Caravans

Curious Couatls Caravans is a major faction operating within the continent of Ahlus.

## Description

Founded by the Yuan-Ti merchant Hassk as the natural extension of his shop, the Golden Serpent constructed in Whittengrove, Curious Couatls Caravans is a trade network that reaches across the continent. Aiming to connect the Realms of the Present through commerce, exchange and dialogue, Curious Couatls Caravans remains an independent organisation to this day, not seeking direct allegiance with any particular nation or company in the hope to reduce the likelihood of the compromising of ideals.

The organisation deals in most typical trade goods, ranging from unprocessed ores, cereal crops and livestock to exquisite spices, exotic fabrics and other luxury goods, but has also established itself as specialising in delivering oddities and novelties sourced from across the continent, and stranger worlds beyond still. This business practice has helped stimulate continued interest, the sight of their caravans adorned in cream and amber-yellow cowlings drawing crowds clamouring to witness the possibility of magical wonders contained within.

## Goals

Curious Couatls Caravans was founded upon the commandments of the Guildmaster's Master Ilemer, the God of Trade, Commerce and Fortune. The members and employees of Curious Couatls seek out opportunities of all kinds, fully embracing those that aid in the betterment of themselves and those around them.

As much as the group serves to deliver provisions across the continent, Curious Couatls is also in the business of creating these opportunities for others, whether by means of supplying a start-up forge with bars of iron with which to work, or by acting as a middle man for local businesses to peddle their wares on the other side of the continent.

## Tenets of Curious Couatls Caravans

* All must be granted the chance to prosper through the means they deem valuable. Be the bridge that spans the valley between aspirations and actuations.
* Contracts are resolute, whether sworn upon solemn lips or signed with ink and quill. To do elsewhere devalues their worth for all.
* Your profits enable you to continue your efforts for the betterment of all, but never allow your pursuit of them to devolve into meritless avarice.

## Relationships

Though their policy to refuse attempts of acquisition by other organisations has resulted in a number of rivalries and animosities over the years, Curious Couatls Caravans maintains a cordial relationship with the majority of settlements across the continent. Considered to be a stalwart and stable trading guild governed by admirable ideals, the group is heralded as a reliable choice of supplier for near any contract, whether large or small.

One major rivalry that persists is that with Howell Holdings, the other major trading guild operating in the continent. The interests, allegiances and ideals of Fonteyne Howell existed as a point of contention for the original owner Hassk, and this conflict has carried over, spurred further by Howell Holding's predilection to placing profit and corporate expansion above all other considerations. Occasionally Curious Couatls Caravans find their contracts undercut by this rivalry, despite protests that the customer will surely be provided a greatly inferior product. Likewise, some criminal syndicates are known to pose as members of Curious Couatls, using the goodwill of the guild to part their marks and victims with their coin through deceit.

## Characters

Due to the extent of Curious Couatls Caravans' reach and involvement in day-to-day happenings across the continent, characters associated with the faction may come from near any walk of life. Whether an active member of the guild working in production, transport, wholesale or targeted commerce, or those countless that rely on them for their own personal business ventures, the twin feathered snakes used on the banner of the group are a common sight throughout the continent.

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