<a character's name goes here after I get over my writer's block> listened intently as <whomever the warband sends back> told of meeting representatives of two new peoples. It was just what he was waiting for. The various orders and societies dedicated to the discovery and use of foods, metals, and other wonderful materials were focused inward, on the tribe's needs. Likewise, the philosophers were interested only in what they could discover on their own. He thought back to his wandering days, before he joined the tribe, when he had survived by carrying knowledge and nice things between the scattered villages that dotted the countryside. Such trading was very inefficient, since the villages lacked a common way to communicate and had vastly different ideas of what was valuable and what was not, but it was enough to earn a few days rest and companionship.

I must teach these people how to trade, he thought, now that we know someone who we might trade with. We must develop a way to communicate with these new and interesting people, and ways to travel so that we can exchange goods with them. Even before that we must have good relations with them, unlike the barbarian village who rose up against me last year.

And with that he founded the Emporia Trading Guild.

Very good initiative, fits the overall story arch extremely well :)