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The Cascani were a a seafaring ethnic group of Daikini that hailed from the Cascani Archipelago, rugged islands off the Eastern Continent's west coast. They were renowned throughout the Mother World as honest traders. In fact, their honesty was so famous that Cascani visited provincial towns to resolve third-party disputes. The Cascani have a strong alliance with the Wyrrn.
History[]
The Cascani were wanderers and explorers, and considered themselves traders to the world. They would travel anywhere by land or sea, and it was said they even ventured beyond the Veil for the sheer fun of it and as often as not found a way to turn a tidy profit from the trip. They hailed from an archipelago of seamount islands scattered along the coast above Angwyn that reached as far as the northern Ice Lands. In spirit and occasionally blood they claimed kinship with the seaborn Wyrrn, whose race dominated the Great Deeps as the Daikini did the land. The one guaranteed safe passage over the waves, the other an equivalent access to the land, to the benefit of both.
The Cascani were a rough-hewn breed, their character shaped by the harsh physicality of their home, forever presenting themselves to outsiders as the quintessential country cousins. One small step removed from bumpkinhood. They were the kind of folk most would expect in the role of pirate and freebooter, more comfortable mule-skinning a wagon train than in the halls of political power or courtyards of high finance. This was a foolish, fatal assumption which generally cost those who made it dearly. It was no accident that Cascani letters of credit were honored virtually everywhere, or that their word was the hallmark of trust throughout the Great Realms. They drove hard bargains, but kept every one they made. They were true to their friends, allies, and especially customers, grim death to whoso-ever was dimwit enough to cross them. They weren’t the only traders in the world, but they set the standard the others found themselves forced to live by.[1]
Appearances[]
- Shadow Moon (First mentioned)
- Shadow Dawn