Tales from a land afar

In the marshy delta of Bangla, where rivers shift like secrets and iron lies buried in ancient bogs, a city is being built from nothing.Fleeing war and tyranny, the Ruhini people carve a settlement from the mud, only to discover that escaping a Count's sword is easier than escaping his tax collectors. What begins as a desperate struggle for survival becomes an unprecedented experiment: a city-state governed by the Open Market Offer System, where land is held in common trust, wealth is measured in honest labor, and a single discovery of bog iron threatens to make them the richest-and most hunted-people in the realm.But prosperity breeds its own chains. When refugees arrive seeking sanctuary, when monopolists corner the market on hope, and when a rigged election installs a military governor with an impossible quota, the citizens of Ruhinagar must learn that building a port is simple compared to building a common good.