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>The civilisation gets +0.1 Technology.
>The civilisation gets +10 Productivity.
>The civilisation gets +5 Health and Prosperity.
>The civilisation gets -5 Happiness.
Those who serve the tribe as slaves must be provided with adequate equipment. Should a thrall require a cart or new tools, he must be given them without any need for payment. This shall allow the Grovic to work at their very best at all times.
Of course, those who listen to Glotradan's drobrac and the cult of Sitrun are upset by the adoption of the wheel, but the reformers are growing in popularity. At this point, the balance of power in the tribe is split almost evenly between these three groups.
The most important thing is that the adoption of the wheel revolutionises the transportation of goods. Clay jars and pots are much faster to manufacture with the use of a pottery wheel and carts are able to transport far more goods over a much greater distances at higher speeds, even though the damp shoreline of the Croglatol isn't the best environment for wheeled vehicles. The efficiency of the tribe's craftsmen and porters dramatically rises and as a result, many of the Protavic people find themselves with more wares to sell and more toroc in their pouches. Finally, the use of carts to move heavy objects decreases the amount of physical stress that tribesmen endure throughout their lives, allowing them to work several more years before their bodies begin to fail them.
The wheel isn't the only piece of new technology that the Protavic people are being introduced to.
One day, those who live along the bank of the Choslitol are greeted by a strange sight. The largest boat they have ever seen, big enough to hold a dozen people, drifts up the river towards the lake. It is not driven by oars alone, for it also has a great wing that sticks out of the middle of it and catches the wind.
Traders have spoken of such winged boats before, witnessed during their trips to the coast. They are made and used by the Bladrek, but no one has ever convinced the wing-stitchers to part with one of their precious vessels before now. When the crew of this boat disembark, their leader introduces himself as Capugril of the Shopac, an Anamilivic trader who went missing years ago. According to him, he was able to earn the respect and the trust of the Bladrek, who allowed him to trade all of his wealth for this great boat.
He has spent the last few years travelling up and down the coast of the Grascan, mapping it and meeting all sorts of strange tribes. Capugril even claims the forest does not go on forever.
In the south, the Grascan grows thinner until the point where the rolling hills are covered with long grass and inhabited by giant boars that have horns rather than tusks. Capugril says that he visited during the winter, yet it was still as warm as the height of summer at the Croglatol. It is the closest thing to paradise that he has ever seen.
