Granites of Veltsgorsk
Overview
The Granites of Veltsgorks are found deep in the mountains of Brez, in the Varushkan territory of Volodmartz. Custodianship of the Granites of Veltsgorsk grants an Imperial title; a seat on the Imperial Bourse; and a seasonal bounty of valuable white granite.
The Resource
In the mountatins of Brez lie the open mines of Veltsgorsk. The white granite that comes from these mines is sometimes streaked with pink quartz - storytellers claim it is steeped in the blood of all those who have died fighting over Volodmartz in the past, and will help give life to nearby vegetation as a result.
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The workers of Veltsgorsk are a tough-minded, hardy breed, almost as hard as the granite that they mine.
They mine the granite in big blocks, seeming to saw along the ground, before hammering in wedges that will break the granite into a neat, rectangular block. So practiced are they that each block needs hardly any dressing before it is ready to be stacked. Once broken from the mine, each block is raised by a team of workers, all of them aware that what they are raising is a block of pink granite easily large enough to crush them to death were any of them to fail in lifting correctly.
It is common to find a Storyteller walking through the open mine whilst citizens are working, calling out tales of the great heroes whose blood is said the suffuse the very granite they are quarrying. As each block is raised, the cry of "Remember!" will reverberate around the mountains, shouted by both Storyteller and worker alike.