Gawakhiza
Gawakhiza
Religion
Traditions
+10% Adeen Loyalty Equilibrium
+10% Trade Efficiency
Kedwali DominanceGawakhizan sailors have long considered themselves the best sailors in the world. More than sheer arrogance, the average Gawakhizan youth spends at least as much time on the sea as on land, and is taught the finer points of sailing and navigation along with their regular education. This cultural obsession with maritime expertise was put to the test in the Dagafita. In that great war, the Gawakhizans shattered the navies of their southern cousins through their skilled seamanship and organized crews, establishing themselves as the masters of the water beyond the Yarbadda Sea thereafter.
+1 Yearly Navy Tradition
In Every Foreign QuarterOur sailors can be found in taverns and markets from Arawkelin to Sardika and beyond. In these distant lands they peddle our wares and learn from their hosts, and bring riches and knowledge back to Qasri Bariga. All of the trade goods are valuable, but some of the ideas brought back are worth far more than gold.\n\nAmong the shops and bookhawkers of Qasri Bariga are texts from dozens of kingdoms and far off empires, sold to a people just as like to converse in the language of foreign places as they are their own.
-10% Idea Cost
The Merfolk Lead Us To ParadiseGawakhizan influence can only reach as far as it does thanks to its island holdings, and it has those islands thanks to a long and prosperous friendship with the Merfolk. It was the Merfolk that first encouraged the Gawakhizan sailors to explore and settle the islands after leading them there. The efficacy of these outposts only serve to make Gawakhizan colonists ever more keen to reach the next island on which to make their fortune.
+25% Colonial Range
+25% Trade Range
Adeegga BaakadkaBarre, a young man from Qasri Bariga, was a sailor aboard a ship which was quarantined in Haqishabaqa after an outbreak of an unknown illness among the crew. During their extended stay at port, he missed the date of his wedding, and lamented the fact that he had no way to send his betrothed a message about what had happened. Following that debacle, and a rescheduled wedding, Barre would buy up smaller, outdated ships and retrofit them into nimble mail carriers. That innovation grew into the Adeegga Baakadka, the parcel service, a system of couriers and offices at every port. Now it is said that sailor’s spouses know of delays before the port authorities do.
-15% Envoy Travel Time
+5% Domestic Trade Power
Teachings of Kabtanka DhudhiQasri Bariga has been training keen young soldiers and sailors into officers for many, many years. One such sailor was a woman named Dhudhi, who took to her first command like a fish to water. Her methods were innovative, with a focus on destructive firepower in the preamble to any clash or charge. A career of brilliant victories on land, attributed to her usage of close-range artillery, and at sea, thanks to a new tactic of fast-paced cycling broadsides, won her an invitation to the Hisguleh. After her retirement, a new officers academy dedicated to her revolutionary tactics was founded in her name in Qasri Bariga.
+1 Land Leader Fire
+1 Naval Leader Fire
Palletized ShippingWhen a dock master in a little town on the north coast began issuing fines for pallets deviating from a seemingly arbitrary "standard size," many traders were very annoyed by what was undoubtedly some lazy aristocrat lining his pockets. A work of mathematical genius quickly became evident, though, as they could cram their holds with greater quantities of goods than ever before.
+15% Ship Tradepower Propagation
Cowrie-Backed CurrencyCowrie shells have been the standard currency of the Baashidi since Baashi made his pact with the Merfolk. This tradition has become more problematic as Baashidi wealth has skyrocketed in recent years, necessitating ever larger quantities of cowries. Because of this, it was Gawakhizan traders who pioneered the use of paper notes to represent larger quantities of shells, with the intent to save space in the hold for more trade goods.
+0.1 Yearly Inflation Reduction
Ambition
+1 Merchants
History
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Strategy
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