Trade & Commerce

Markets & Shops

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The city and villages have been granted license by the monarch to engage in markets regularly held in Lunaria’s public squares, streets, and purpose-built halls. Lunaria has daily market which move around different parts of the city depending on the day and have markets for specific goods like meat, fish, or bread. Sellers offer staples as eggs, dairy products, poultry, spice, grain, herbs, and ale. There are middlefolk known as regrators who buy goods from producers and sell them to the market stallholders or producers might pay vendors to sell their goods for them. Besides markets, sellers of wares also go knocking on the doors of private residents, these are known as hucksters.

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Fairs

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Lunarian's have acquired a charter from the Crown allowing them to hold an annual fair, serving the Great Alliance and local denizens, typically lasting for two or three days.

 

Fairs have been growing in popularity, as international trade increases. The fairs allow producers and ports to engage with visiting foreign merchants. 

 

Patrons use fairs as a way to buy goods like spices, wax, preserved fish, and foreign cloth in bulk from international merchants.

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Guilds

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The guilds are generally one of two types: merchant guilds or craft guilds.

 

Merchant guilds consist of local, long-distance traders, wholesale, and retail sellers who deal in various categories of goods. 

 

Craft guilds, on the other hand, are occupational associations that comprise of artisans and crafts-folk in each branch of industry or commerce. There are guilds of weavers, dyers, fullers in the wool trade, masons, architects in the building trade, guilds of painters, metalsmiths, blacksmiths, bakers, butchers, leatherworkers, soapmakers, and so on.

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Trade Partners

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Kal Daka Shipping

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Trade Associates

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Hanseatic League

Primary located in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the Hanseatic League facilitates the growth of long-distance trade under the leadership of Lübeck.

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The Hanseatic League is a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds that dominates trade along the coast of Northern Europe which has flourished from the 13th century. The chief cities are Cologne on the Rhine River, Hamburg and Bremen on the North Sea, and Lübeck on the Baltic Sea. The Hanseatic cities each have their own legal system and a degree of political autonomy.

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The league was founded for the purpose of joining forces for promoting mercantile interests, defensive strength, and political influence. The Hanseatic League currently holds a near-monopoly on trade in the Baltic, especially with Novgorod and Scandinavia.

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Trade Threats

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Ottoman Empire

Founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in northwestern Anatolia in 1299. The increasingly dominant position of the Ottoman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean presents an impediment to trade for many nations, who often look for alternatives. Portuguese and Spanish explorers have found new trade routes south of Africa to India, and across the Atlantic Ocean.

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They have acquired control of the trade routes to the East and many European powers, such as Venice and Genoa, pay great sums for the privilege of access to these routes.