In one of the side rooms of the expanded meeting room, Karl sat down with the Elders of the Almeixei Sect and a pot of coffee.
"Well, I suppose that we should get right to business, as we have left your Sect Leader unattended around the other Guild Leaders. I can already see that you have an issue with the proposal that I have.
So, let's start from there."
The Supreme who had spoken last smiled. "Blunt and direct, I like that. The issue is that you propose sending your own merchants to our Sects to make the sales. While that is normally permissible behaviour for allies, when that ally is a dedicated crafting Guild it causes unrest among the other merchants.
If you make it, ship it, sell it and trade for resources in house, it cuts out all the middlemen and puts many people out of work.
That is what the Sect Leader is worried about.
