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Presently, the city is quickly growing in wealth and power due to the influence of quantity of sugar, rum, spices, and precious gems and metals flowing through its harbor.
History
Over a two hundred years ago, the city was just a prosperous village until it served as the first military headquarters of Kal the Indomitable. His army contained stonemasons and architects with skills not previously possessed in the area. In their first years, fearful of counterattacks or invasions by the Polonians that they were fleeing, they built the first stone city in the region. Large stone towers were built to defend the harbor and a stout wall was built to encircle the village. Soon after, the plaza within the city was dedicated to Kal and a large statue was erected.
However, the Polonians didn’t come for almost sixty years a century and when they did, it was not an invading army that arrived, but instead was the Polonian West Mercantile Company. The Polonians quickly established trading outposts, sugar plantations, and spice harvesting colonies throughout the Stygian Blue. Over the next forty years, the economic power and political clout of the Polonians grew rapidly. While the details of government were left to the natives of Verazul, a new, improved harbor was dug and a trading enclave was setup within the city where Polonian writ was unchallenged. Indeed, due to the economic might of the Polonians, the officials of Verazul are often effectively just the lackeys of the Polonian governors, whether due to bribes, threat of force, or intermingled financial dependency.
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