House Relations Grow Colder

As no sign of reconciliation between House Nillu and House Lomasa seems forthcoming, and as the winter cold deepens, the most obvious impacts have started to make themselves known. Rumors of the price of ores, stones, and other raw materials climbing steadily in Lomasa territory are commonplace, as Lomasa merchants are forced to buy their materials from other houses - who have far more limited supply or who are reselling Nillu materials. Cartage costs throughout Lomasa territory have begun to creep up as well, as Nillu wagons and riverboats are no longer accessable to the House of the Bull.

In Nillu lands, Lomasa wines and finished goods have also begun to increase in price as their scarcity is made known, but the increase of the cost of raw goods in Lomasa territory has started to create opportunities for expansion into finished markets by other houses - a thing Kahar smiths and forges and the weak Seamel wine trade have begun to capitalize on.

Regardless, current rumor revolves around a simple thing: Coal. With the cost of working Lomasa forges rising, most are coming to believe that the House of the Bear is in far better position to endure the current state of the ongoing tensions.