Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24449631-20140917204356/@comment-24449631-20140924193520

Late heartfire always was an interesting time in Skingrad.

It was the time when the new wines were at their best. A fresh new line of liquor just in time for the colder seasons, so to speak.

The grapes used in these famous wines of the West Weald were as always picked during Sun’s Height, which was hard work in the unrelenting sun of course, not a single Cyrodiilian alive will argue with you on that count. But it did provide the farmers with the freshest and arguably best wines in the land, and if trade is anything to go on, the whole known world. There are many who have tried to find the reason behind the westweald’s success when it comes to tomatoes or wines but there is no clear answer. Arguably it is because of its close vicinity to the woodelf realm of Valenwood and thus, its rich fertile grounds, but as said before it is just speculation.

Despite the great war and the rather melancholy times of late, Skingrad and its countryside remains largely intact.

It had the arguable ‘advantage’ of being close to Valenwood’s borders which meant it was easily occupied by Elven Forces and the City didn’t become battle-scarred like The Imperial City was in the later years of the war, No, live in Skingrad remained largely unscathed.

The city had always been one of the richer cities in Cyrodiil but now it could be argued to be ‘the’ richest. The Imperial City itself had greatly lost its ‘visage’ so to speak when the Emperor meekly surrendered to the White-Gold concordat. Among other factors, like The Arcane University, which was as with all Magic institutes wrongly accused of having any correlation with the oblivion crisis of last era. Let’s just say that business in the capital wasn’t what it once was.

But as is common in history, power isn’t lost, power simply shifts. And in this case was ‘economical’ power certainly at Hand In the city of the red moon.

