Damescrown is the first among equals of the myriad city-states of the northern Dameshead, and its diplomats are as cunning as its merchants are shrewd. Traders and jurists alike delight in the reliability of a deal made in Damescrown, and woe be upon the poor souls who try to break one there. While not an official organization, the Intertidal Banking Clan is a conglomerate of the most powerful financiers in the Empire. Their merchants have ventured farther than almost anyone else, and our trade outposts and merchant enclaves can be found as far afield as Escann or Lorent. The shipwrights of Damescrown are renowned for crafting trade vessels as beautiful as they are functional, and ports across the known world clamor for the arrival of the famed Barques of Damescrown and the riches they inevitably bring. Damescrown is the home of The Grand Exchange the largest market forum in Anbennar, surpassing even those of Anbenncóst in selection and grandeur. Foremost of the traders here is the Calasanni Trade Company (CLSTC for short), the largest mercantile company in the world, headquartered in Damescrown. If Anbenncóst is the heart of the Empire, Damescrown is its ravenous mouth, as it is said that every foreign good that enters Anbennar passes through at least three Damescrown merchants to get there.