>>5389985The first company-town, the one which you collapses with an Earth Tremor and now have unfettered ownership of, is atop the richest reserve of orichalcum, which is easily the most valuable resources in thee mountains. There are smaller veins of iron and copper there as well, and lead, with small clusters of gems; some of those gems, too, may be host of magical energies seeped into the ground from ancient wars and dying dragons, though their tendency is to explode if overcharged with such raw and untamed powers.
The second fortification has some deposits of similar composition, though far less of the most-valuable, fully-impregnated orichalcum, instead having a larger abundance of partly-tainted iron and copper, and a richer array of other, more common resources, such as clay. It is also the only area of your holdings at all suitable for surface agriculture, and the best served a trading-post for logistical purpose, being situated in a wide river-valley, shielded from extreme winds and unlikely to be completely blocked by a wayward rockslide. This is, after all, why the Blackmantle Corporation was using it for such purposes.
The third settlement, where you currently shelter-in-place against the dithering, dying snowstorm, is actually the richest in terms of sheer mineral deposits… Or, rather, the Geologist hypothesizes it to be so, based on location relative to the others, soil-types, and preliminary surveys, but very little of it is magical. Many gems, gold and silver veins of considerable value, but little orichalcum.
“Probably a mite more gold and silver sprawling out from here, too, underneath the holdings of the other corporations,” the Geologists surmises, running hi fingers through his beard in an idle bit of ape-like personal grooming that draws mocking rattles of laughter from the Reptilians in attendance.
You consider all this information, trying not to feel the pang of stifled greed at knowing you relinquished the silver and gold of this outpost to the Drow. There is more to be seized beyond this territory, after all!
