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[Bard Judith]

I'm working on compiling a price list....

Unfortunately, it looks as though it will be a monstrous compilation, covering items from the Herbarium, Bestiary, Tribe entries, and so on... any physical thing which can be bought, sold, traded, or bartered in all of Sorr'ae're'cael'erth'aria should eventually wind up on this list, so there are a lot of items to enter, let alone to cross-check and create values and worths for!

If anyone else feels like doing some research to help out here, any references to trades and estimated values would be appreciated.

For example, let's take the pricy substance made from totit by the dedicated Soryint, the fabulous Yuatu'way silk.   "one cartload of Yuatu’way fiber will be traded for two Azhorhrian horses…" according to Aenea's Soryint entry.   And since the Azhorhrian entry says that even a single horse is worth about 10 bags of gold (sheesh, don't overdo it here, people! Let's read pouch for bag, ok?) that would make it about a mithrene's worth (10 goldbards to the pouch sounds about right...)

So assume fifteen to twenty large bags or bales of rolled cloth to the cartload - let's say twenty to make the math easier.. that would be 200 goldbards for the cart,  thus 10 goldbards to the roll... whew, this stuff IS expensive!   How many peds to a roll?   Well, even for a light fiber there's a limit, or the roll gets too bulky/heavy.  But I don't know how many meters of cotton fits on the average cloth roll in my fabric store, so I'm going to go check that out.  Once I have that number, I can do the math to figure out my base cost for a single ped of Yuatu'way silk.

Now, do all that math in your head for every single entry on your shopping list....

This WILL be very very useful in the end, though...





Regards from the counting-frantically-on-fingers bard,
Judith

[Rayne (Alýr)]

Etto.. I'd like to help if I can, but it would also be nice to sort of understand the conversions for currency from real-world to Santharian world. I mean, About how many American dollars/Canadian dollars/Franks/Pounds/Euros/Santharian currency would a jug of milk cost? A gold ring? A carrot/caroot? A tomato/lythbel?

Some of the prices may be different depending on region, but as an average..? If we had some sort of idea how much one san or hak or copperbard is worth, we may be able to help out.

Erm.. does inflation exist in Santharia? o.o;

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[Dala Valannia]

Heh, okay, make it ten medium-sized little pouches of gold for one Azhorhrian horse then! Guess it would be a little hard to lug hefty bags of gold around in a desert  Be nice to be filthy rich though....

[Artimidor Federkiel]

For a rough price list I propose to take games as reference in order to get relations between wares right in medieval time. Cause these games had the same problems (e.g. how much costs a lantern in relation to a loaf of bread). Morrowind e.g. has a lot of various items (also completely "unimportant" ones for regular role playing), and would be good as reference, which we then only would need to convert to Santharian currency.

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[Radaroc]

I think something that would be at least of mild importance would be the average cost for a nights stay at decent quality inn.

In the begining I was weak.  Now I have purpose.  Stay me from my path and the Gods themselves cannot save you.

[Bard Judith]

Just to give you guys an idea of the work I've done so far - here's the list to date in rough-and-dirty form - note that no prices are included so far, but the horses are some of the costliest items, running from ten to a hundred gold pieces, while a loaf of bread will run you from 5 to 10 san on the cheap end of things.  

And the prices should all be averages, more significant for their relationships to each other than a direct 'conversion' from modern prices - or even medieval prices, since our economy is assisted by techology and magic which the terran middle ages did not have

Lots more items are coming - most of the foodstuffs aren't on yet, and common household utensils, pieces of clothing, traveller's goods, and so on all need to be defined.  Have a look and add what you like!


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Apples, fresh        1 basket (about a hafeb’s weight)
Apples, dried        1 od of dried apple rings       
Bread, wheaten         1 loaf
Bread,  Golden Rain        1 loaf
Bread, barley        1 loaf
Butter, Stratan (import)        1 block (about an od’s weight)
Butter, local        1 block (1/10 heb = 1 od)
Candle, tallow        4, each a handsbreadth in length
Candle, candlebush wax        1, a hand-n-half in length
Candle, beeswax        Sold in pairs, a hand-n-half in length
Chisel, for wood        ½ fore in length, steel blade
Chisel, for stone        ½ fore to 1 fore, steel shaft and blade
Cloth, cotton, undyed        1 ped
Cloth, Caltharian        1 ped
Cloth, Shendarsilk        1 ped
Cloth, Yuatu’way fiber 1 ped  (One cart =  2 Azhorhrian horses!)
Cloth, wool        1 ped       
Cow, milch        one 2 – 4 year-old animal
Cow, meat        one 2 – 4 year-old animal
Eggs, Taenish, fresh        Ten, in a plaited straw wrap, fresh
Eggs, Taenish, ready-to-eat        Two, boiled / pickled / salted
Firestarter set        Waterproofed leather pouch with flint/steel/tinder
Fish, Barsa        One fore-length fish, ungutted
Fish, Bonehead, fresh        Four large fillets, unboned
Fish, Bonehead, dried        Twelve fillets, dried or smoked
Fish, Evoor (used as bait)        One dipper of chopped bait
Fish, Mithanjor (as bait)        One bucket (several firkins)
Fish,  Mithanjor (fresh)         One dipper (about two cups)
Fish,  Sunset        Two unscaled fillets, boned
Fish, Yellowtail        One fore-length fish, ungutted
‘Fish’,  Whale         One heb of fresh whale meat       
Fleece, Cuncu        Popular, higher quality
Fleece, Sawis, black        Expensive!
Fleece,  Sawis, regular        Commonly available
Fur, Tarep (domestic rabbit)        Ten – twelve skins as a miniature bale
Fur, Mimsy (small mammal)        Ten – twelve skins as a miniature bale
Fur, Leapor (wild hare)        Ten – twelve skins as a minature bale
Fur, Wolverine (rare import)        Single skin, stretched, suppled, tanned
Fur, Nul’tum (very rare, northern)        Single skin, stretched, suppled, tanned
Fur, Argrothin Bear        Single large hide, stretched, tanned
Fur, Capricus ( wild goat)        Single medium hide, tanned
Grapes, Bardavos, fresh        Small basket (about two od)
Grapes, Bardavos, dried as raisins        1 scup ( ¼  of a dipper)
Grain, Golden Rain        1 sack (about a fore long, 10 ods in weight)
Grain, wheat       
Grain, oats       
Grain, barley       
Grain, rye               
Goat, milch        one 1 – 5 year-old animal
Garthook, hen, live, (domestic fowl)        One 3 month – 2 year old bird
Garthook, male, live        One 3 month – 2 year old bird
Garthook, meat (poultry)        One bird, plucked and gutted
Horse, Azhorhrian (imported)        One gelded, healthy animal
Horse, Kev’lor, mare /gelding       
Horse, Kev’lor, stallion       
Horse, Rusik, mare / gelding       
Horse, Rusik, stallion       
Horse, common        Price varies wildly depending upon age, gender, condition, and marketI               
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Kao-Kao (sweet chocolatey substance from the Kaouje bean)        Sold in rough chunks, small slabs, or as various cast shapes and sizes       
Knife, iron, eating        One utensil, pointed tip, dull edge
Knife, steel, defense        single weapon, price varies by blade length, steel quality, and forgemark
Knife, steel,  multipurpose        2 spans to a half-fore steel blade
Lantern, tin, pierced tin panes       
Lantern, tin, glass-paned               
Maid’s Ease ( sweet raspberry)        1 dipper (about two cups)
Milk, cow’s        1 firkin (about 6 cups)
Milk, goat’s        1 mug (about 2 cups)
Milk, sheep’s        1 barrel (about 10 firkins) – almost always sold for cheese-making
Nut, Mutnut (fresh, edible)       
Nut, Mutnut (dried, sold as weights)        100 dried hearts, each weighing 1/10 of an od,  1/100 of a heb
Nut, Doch (prepared)       
Oil, vegetable-expressed (        1 barrel
Oil, fish-expressed (Evoor)        1 tun ( large barrel, irregular volume)
Psittae (small cagebirds)        Sold in bonded male/female pairs
Redberries (small, tart fruit)        1 dipper (about two cups)
Saw, carpenter’s        Single-handled, about a fore’s length, forged and crimped toothed blade
Saw,  forester’s        Double-handled, about a ped’s lengt
Sheep, Cuncu (wool breed)        1 healthy animal, 1 – 5 years
Sheep, Dor’iyn (milker)        1 healthy animal
Sheep, Sawis (wool breed)        1 healthy animal       
Shovel, wooden       
Shovel, metal blade               
Spoon, wood        one eating utensil
Spoon, iron / tin         one eating utensil
Spoon, silver        one eating utensil       
Sword, human-forged steel       
Sword, dwarven-forged steel       
Sword,  custom-made steel               
Taenish, (domestic fowl), hen, live        One bird, 4 months – 2 years
Taenish, rooster, live        One bird, 4 months – 2 years
Taenish, poultry, prepared        One bird, headed, plucked and gutted
Taenish, poultry, unprepared        One bird, hung with feathers et al
Torch (cheap light source)        1 prepared split of wood, bound with tarred straw
Trysters (an edible mollusc)        1 dipper (about two cups)
Tarep (domestic type of rabbit), live   Sold in male/female breeding pairs
Tarep ( rabbit),  meat        One skinned and gutted carcass       
Tea, Baian Cha (golden brew)       
Tea, Maid’s Ease (raspberry leaves)               
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Waterberry (sweet blue berries)        1 dipper (about two cups)
Wine,       
Wine,       
Wine,       
Wine,       
Wine,       
Wild Boar, meat        One haunch or fore (1/4 carcass)

[Bard Judith]

After learning that a game engine is indeed available, and looking at my list again, I'm inclined to think that subdividing the price list by category might be more useful...

For example: Foodstuffs / Travel Gear / Weapons & Utensils / Livestock / Herbs and Medicines / Enchanted Items

In that case we could concentrate on filling out just the categories that were most necessary to the game, such as Travel Gear, and let categories such as Livestock stay understocked for now.  This would also make it much easier to find an item for which you were searching, such as the Firestarter Kit.

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Yup, this would indeed be useful. The list is of course always expandable once the basics items are in the game we might see if we have too few items in a certain category and expand there.

Oh, BTW: An additional 1-2 sentence description (short and straight to the point usally, unless it's a more important item) of each item would be perfect as well in this context. If we have prices and items description you will very soon be able to walk around in Nepris, look in chests, pick up things, drink health potions and so on:)

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[Thuja]

Nice list Bard Judith.  But I have one thing I would like you to change....please.

The nomads on the Steppe of Kruswik will not sell a mare or stallions, only geldings, at the auctions held in Horth, or anywhere else for that matter.  Well it isn't done yet but when we move that way that is the way I will be writing it.  When the entry is ever done it will make sense why they are protective of their horses.  Or at least that is my hope.  

This is the Rusik horse by the way.  So if you could do that please I would appreciate it.

"In a place like this, the magic is all around you, the trick is to see it."

Edited by: Thuja at: 4/26/03 5:21:28 pm

[Viresse]

So the Rusik is only bred there?!
How weird...
specialization yet again.
*sighs*

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[Bard Judith]

www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalprices.html

is one resource I plan to use.   There is also a site (which I had Google translate from Italian, so it's a bit hard to read) which provides a comparative price list for an on-line simulation (as far as I can make out) and has a very comprehensive range of items.   Art - does Fief have anything that would help us out here?  Perhaps you could post or email me the relevant data, if so?

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Yeah, Fief has some price lists, Judy... War prices (arrows, crossbows etc.) and Trade prices (butter, cheese, bread etc.) - I'll send you the Fief file soon so that you can take a look  

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Edited by: Artimidor Federkiel at: 4/27/03 5:37:37 pm

[the Akorn]

would the pricelist include price-differences, like fresh fish isn't so expensive by the sea, or the firewood less expensive in the middle of a forest than on the plains?

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other"

the Akorn, a self-proclaimed squirrel

[Thuja]

Yeah isn't it terrible I ask for a small thing like that.  I mean what was I thinking?   How stupid of me to forget the concept of this world.  The people only exist, everthing else belongs to public collective ownership or control for the basic means of production, distribution and exchange.  The only aim for operating is for use rather than profit.  I would not want any one tribe to get anything someone else might not have.

I was very sad when my eight year old daughter got on my computer and erased all my Santharia notes and projects.  But now I guess it is for the best, I mean I may become an evil writer and might do the unforgivable and, "specialize" .  

So the best thing for me is to not use any ideas and wait till someone tells me what and how to write.

"In a place like this, the magic is all around you, the trick is to see it."

Edited by: Thuja at: 4/28/03 12:32:28 am

[Viresse]

*scratches head*
Maybe I should have added a smiley on that post.
*wishes she was like Tarq or Xarl, who did not need a smiley face for people to see the joke*

Sorry for ruining the Dream for yet another important player.
*wanders out*

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