Currency

Although there are several local currencies across The Mortal Realm, silver is generally accepted as universally valuable, and thus serves as currency in most places. Many eldritch city-states print their own silver coins at various weights.

Coinage simplifies trade within the city itself, by allowing for easy monetary exchange without the use of cumbersome scales. That said, one city's coins are rarely accepted outside of its immediate area of influence, and so most mercantile activity is conducted either through trading goods directly, or using weighed clumps of silver. Due to the difficulties of crafting an accurate set of scales, silver effectively drops in value the further one is from the influence of eldritch cities.

The city-states that make use of coinage typically feature some sort of bank, offering loans, protection, and exchanging silver bars to coins and back. Usage of the bank is often limited to outsiders however, and anyone without a stake in the city itself - like, for example, owning a house or other property within the city proper - would be subject to far worse rates than the locals.

For simplicity's sake, most coins are treated as interchangeable in game terms, allowing the players to more easily keep track of their earnings. The various coin types with differing values are reduced simply to Bronze Coins (bc) and Silver Coins (sc), for ease of use during gameplay. One silver coin is worth roughly 48 bronze coins. The following is a list of some common prices for various goods and services. Note that prices are not fixed, and are bound to fluctuate based on the local economy and its recent events. The average price bracket is what would be considered average in a reasonably well-off city-state.

Everyday products

Weapons and armor