The main course came out, and the table ate in silence for a few minutes as the rest of the room buzzed with anxious conversation.
"So, what is Wigin like? It's a large city, isn't it?" Dominic asked, trying to salvage the conversation.
General Wigin nodded. "A quarter million now, with a fishing fleet of nearly five thousand ships. We're leaders in magitech shipbuilding as well. The whole city has been changing ever since the new steam assisted ships were introduced.
Keeping enough coal on board to drive the boiler has been difficult, but Dagos doesn't have the number of mages that Cygnia or Bostoveria do."
General Modbury nodded. "We had recently changed from building conventional ships to building airships in my hometown, though it is currently under siege. The adaptation to new designs and technologies has been a real boon for industry.
Tell me, how does Cygnia handle the shortage of copper?"
