[quote=@Lucius Cypher]
I suppose we can do that. Yeah, mine's getting dry and Malakaus wants to hike up the price of iron. His nose is picking up new veins but he needs the money to start a new dig site, and really the only source of income is coming from each other. This can even be one of the first issues the village has to deal with: The local mine is getting dry and now they need to figure out how to get the money to fund a new dig. Malakaus of course wants everyone to chip in a bit even if he has to pay the most out of it, but at the moment he's also charging higher for ore to cover the cost of lots of things.
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The higher he charges for ore, the less money I can make because no latter how good the tool is, it is only a piece of iron and this he can't make it more expensive without losing conpetativness with other smiths in the province. High iron price = Low profit on tools.