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 ==== Edric (city) ====
-Capital city of Backbone and seat of Queen Rathwyn's throne.
-Named in honor of Backbone's premier mage, Edric.
+Capital city of [[Backbone]] and seat of Queen [[Rathwyn]]'s throne.
+Named in honor of Backbone's premier mage, [[Edric]].
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+**The Present Status of the City-State of Edric**
+//As of the winter of 1105//
+Returning citizens have been augmented by unwanted citizens
+from Rota (not official policy by Rota, of course).  Thus, the
+crime level is higher than anticipated.  Queen Rathwyn is working
+hard to organize people to rebuild the city.  There is still a
+slum section that emerged in the heavily-damaged area south of
+the temple.  The walls have been repaired to a functional level,
+but require much more work.  The treasury has been looted by orcs
+and the queen was forced to impose heavy taxes on foreign
+currency.
+To curb crime, an arena has been established where criminals
+given the death sentence may go.  If they win, they are exiled.
+If they lose or choose not to go, they die.  Criminals convicted
+of misdemeanors can avoid their sentence by volunteering for
+outside patrol duty, while felonists can only avoid the jail
+sentence by surviving the arena once for every year of their
+sentence.  Many are willing to take the chance and several have
+stayed on as regulars.
+The orc problem is very bad.  To encourage citizens to fight
+the orcs rather than each other, a reward of 1 silver piece is
+being given for each orc killed.  Their heads must be taken to a
+spot well outside the city limits in a small unused castle.
+Merchants in the city are ordered not to accept non-Backbone
+coins.  Some do anyway, but charge double due to the 50% tax on
+trading them in.  New coins have been minted since the return and
+there is finally a decent supply.  The exchange rate for internal
+coinage is as follows:
+copper  =    1 ounce of copper
+coppers =    1 round (a large copper coin)
+rounds  =    1 cat (a small, silver-copper alloy coin)
+cats    =    1 silver (one ounce silver)
+silvers=    1 crown (silver-gold alloy)
+crowns  =    1 gold (one ounce gold)
+crowns  =    1 dragon (one ounce platinum)
+coppers = 1 dragon
+Trade agreements are being sought by the dwarves, but this looks
+slim due to the orc presence.
+In honor of the late archmage Edric, the city (originally
+called Backbone) has been renamed after him and while the entire
+kingdom is still known as Backbone, it is the city-state of Edric
+where everybody lives.  Most of the city's guards patrol the
+farmlands to keep orcs out, do within the city, policing is at a
+minimum.  Fines and penalties are severe, but there are no
+mutilations and the death sentence is given only by the queen and
+only rarely.
+Rathwyn has adopted Edric's castle as hers, while the castle
+of King Scardore is the guard station.  Bast is the officially
+recognized and officially sanctioned religion, however others are
+tolerated and lesser temples include Odin and Zeus.  In an
+agreement with Rota and Spindrift, one-third of the Dark Mage's
+fleet was given to the city.  These are being torn down and re-
+built.  It is expected by the summer of 1106 that the city's
+naval strength will be at an "acceptable" level.
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