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>The civilisation gets +5 Equality, Prosperity and Happiness.
It is decided that the common people should have free rein over how this silver is used. The miners are free to sell it to whoever they wish and those who purchase it can do whatever they want with it. It ends up being used to make glittering beads for jewellery, a symbol of status for the wealthiest of the Croglatovic. It's also bought by traders and then sold off to the river and sea tribes, in exchange for all sorts of wondrous luxuries and curios. One artisan even produces a shining figurine that depicts Sitrun, to be used as the centrepiece of ceremonies hosted at Ancron whenever the prophetess is absent.
The beautiful new metal is a source of great joy and new wealth for the people of the Croglatol, though it is far from abundant. In fact, its scarcity only seems to enhance the happiness that it brings. However, there are some people who serve the chiefdom who are not given access to such luxuries.
The well-being of Croglatovic slaves is once again the focus of the next great feast. Though the vast majority of Anamilivic have converted to the way of Sitrun, many of them remain reformists and still care for the health and happiness of the chiefdom's thralls. They still heed the wisdom of Chabal, who has finally accepted rehabilitation and acknowledged that he can do more for the enslaved as a free man than he could as one of them. Though he is not in an official position of authority, many of the village leaders vouch for him and encourage Chabal to speak for them.
The free man argues that many slaves only embraced the Grovic lifestyle because they lacked the opportunities to thrive by any other means. Before they turned to a life of crime, most of these thieves and scoundrels struggled to subsist on the outskirts of society and were lucky if they owned a single torol. If they are given the training and the resources that they need in order to thrive, then the chance of these Grovic relapsing into criminal behaviour once they have been rehabilitated is next to nothing, or so Chabal argues.
For this reason, he wants to bring about an end to the gruelling unskilled labour that most slaves are forced to perform, either as miners or haulers. The only people who should engage in such backbreaking work are the free man who do it by choice. Instead, Croglatovic thralls should be indentured to artisans and given the opportunity to learn their trade from them. Once these slaves have earned their freedom, then they should be given enough shell money to support themselves for a good few months, in order to keep them from falling back into the vicious cycle of crime while they acquire the means to support themselves.
