>>5225271Along the west coast, prevalent but that's much to be expected given the amount of trade going on in that area between Langland, Canton, Cathagi and Norsikaa. All four nations have an interest in preserving trade but are also all guilty of contributing pirates and privateers in the region. Many captains, even those not looking to make a name as a pirate, can be opportunistic. They will invariably protect and come to the aid of their own vessels, but if a foreign ships is vulnerable and weak enough it's... well not exactly fair game but you don't have to be a career pirate to consider taking advantage of the situation. So there are few -dedicated- pirates, with most places having a berth of safety in their own waters and being a potential threat to others.
>>5225523That is a miserable storm-swept isle that is home to a hamlet mainly consisting of crabbers. It's crowning achievement is a functional lighthouse that is the only reason the reigning family pays any heed to it. The Duke Pascae demands that the network of lighthouses along the more perilous areas of the Pascae coast be kept working. Oddly enough, the lighthouse keeper on this small island is a position with more importance and status than the hamlet headsman.
Along the southern coast of Canton, you are less likely to find traders and more likely to find pirates. Either those picking of merchantmen slipping into the capital Aubrey but as we move along the southern coast of Romaine the pirates there are more interested in flesh than goods. There is much less traffic given the proximity of the Isle of Dead other than local ships and fishermen, sighting a foreign ship there is rarely a good thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2EJChRdxL0&ab_channel=VoicesofthePast>>5226044The equivalent of this would be the War of Borders, which occurred in your grandfather rule of House Andrei and concluded in the your father's youth. It wasn't outright civil war as was the case during the Sengoku Jidai, but in addition to numerous Duchy conflicts there were significant foreign incursions in Pascae (A quasi-hostile takover of Port Bounty by Langlish 'mercanaries'), Romaine (Cathagi invaders that went beyond brief occupations and slaving to claiming the entirety of the southern coast) and even Fallavon (a large Norsikaan raid that laid siege to Motte-Fallavon itself).
So in answer to your question, what we're looking at now probably isn't the surplus of knights following that war and reparceling of land itself but more like the next generation of those knights.
>>5226140Exactly, without an actual war to fight the next generation of young nobility are trying to prove themselves in various ways
Like going to Fallavon>>5226182FUCK Fallavon 