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Harbor
A seagull landed on the tallest spot of captain Cyrrik's ships mast. "Aye, a good sig', the catch wer be goed.", thought Cyrrik. His nine children and beloved wife Belladona, were waiting at the ships ladder.
"- Take us with you daddy!" - cried his twins, Akka and Tukka.
"- Die Hannah!", "- Dad! Falamar is trying to poke me with a stiiik!", Hannah, his little three-year-old dauther run through the gangway, followed by his nine-year-old son Falamar, both named after two famous Lanun leaders, both fighting as originals. Cyrrik smiled. He ignored his wife starting with the ordinary yabbing. He inhaled the fresh, salty breeze, he listened to the merchants, fighting over a half-crown discount for a (what looked like) basket of a week old shrimps, he raved about his ship, about the birds and about the gold he is going to earn. A small taint of sadness went through his face, as he thought of the times, when the city had no harbor. But these are over now. Now he can go fishing with no worries, as now he has a safe place to come back.
Tax Office
The concept of 'taxation' was not, at least literally, known to the inhabitants of the Paolion village. They had a tendency to bury alive the men, who came asking for a part of their belongings. Of course they knew, if a Calabim lord is passing near by, they needed to support the tradicional sacrifice. They also have always supported their lords with men for their wars. Everything seemed balanced to the elders, so when the young vampire, Num'a'Zath came to their village with lord Zaburtha written orders, to give him tenth of their gold, they laughted at him in the first place. Young Nums blood burned at this point and he killed the village chieftain only son. Kumlo, the village chieftain took this very personally. Twenty pitchforks massacred the young vampire and a country-wide peasants revolt started. It costed lifes of three lords and numerous adepts in total. During these weeks Alexis realized, that this was not the best way to collect taxes. From that day on she had enstablished a specialized office in each bigger Calabim city. Each year, each settlements chief had to go to the nearest town and leave tenth of their yearly income in nature or gold in these offices. On the other hand each wampire lord was obligued to visit each of his settlements and give his blessings to each settlements chiefs. If there was one thing Alexis really hated, it was the internal instability. This concept worked out very well. Rumours say, that Alexis earned a lot by selling this idea to the other leaders. But now going back to the biography of Kumlo...
Part of the Vampire Chronicles, by Kuotrz, "The origination of the great peasants revolt"