Sandpoint Mercantile League

The Sandpoint Mercantile League was a group of four wealthy merchant families from Magnimar who acquired a charter to settle the area that became the town of Sandpoint: Deverin (farmers and brewers), Scarnetti (loggers and millers), Kaijitsu (glassmakers and jewelers), and Valdemar (shipbuilders and carpenters). Its physical location is Sandpoint's nexus for trade and communication.

Location
An imposing building fronting Sandpoint's Market Street, just off the Market Square near the harbor, the Mercantile League is the nexus for all trade and travel in town. Here travelers can book sea passage or join a carriage or caravan, send messages to other townspeople or have them conveyed to Korvosa or Riddleport. The League manages the purchase of local land, town construction, the opening of new businesses, within Sandpoint and beyond into the surrounding hinterlands.

Sandpoint's four founding families constitute the leadership and senior partners of the League, though lesser partnerships and associated benefits are available for purchase by merchants who wish to establish themselves in town.

The League's daily business is managed by Sir Jasper Korvaski, a retired paladin of Abadar.

History
The Mercantile League settled Sandpoint with the authority of a charter from Magnimar, its mother city. Despite a period of bloody conflict with the native Varisians who occasionally camped on the peninsula, the League negotiated an agreement - the Compact - that enabled them to found Sandpoint.

The Compact called for the official incorporation of the worship of Desna into the town's religious institutions, as well as regular payments for 40 years to the Varisian Council from a tax levied on Sandpoint's mercantile activities.

The period called for by the compact has passed, but Mayor Deverin pushed for the extension of the agreement by another two decades, a decision unpopular with a minority of the town's wealthy residents and merchants.

(See also: History of Sandpoint)

Associated Characters

 * Sir Jasper Korvaski