Mercadia

Mercadia by Edward P. Beard, Jr.

Mercadia was a plane near Dominaria ruled from Mercadia City, sitting strategically atop an inverted mountain. The city's leadership was highly corrupted by various infuences, mainly by the scheming kyren goblins who controlled the magistrate under Volrath's employ. It is notable that goblins are highly respected and intelligant beings in Mercadia, much different from their Dominarian relatives.

The Weatherlight and its crew narrowly escaped Rath and crash landed in Mercadia, where the ship was stolen by Cho-Arrim. Mercadia was the setting for the Mercadian Masquez set, which revolved around the Weatherlight crew's long and unpredicable ordeal with the Mercadian peoples to repair their ship, as well as help the rebels overthrow the corrupt Mercadian government.

Locations on Mercadia

Mercadia City

Here is where Thran nobles were taken to escape the political turmoil of their home. They were left in the care of goblins, who had reliable survival skills. Many years later, the Thran refugees built the powerful city of Mercadia. Mercadia, essentially a trading empire, is filled with many markets, where anything can be found to be bought and sold. The rules of physics are bent in the plane, and noone can ever travel straight from east to west across the inverted mountain; rather, they will go in circles around the same blocks and marketplaces, unless they turn opposite of the direction they wish to go. It is ruled by a venerated magistrate, who is in fact a puppet leader secretly controlled by the Kyren, descendants of the original goblins who have increased intelligance and size compared to standard goblins. Lower Mercadia, a lesser dwelling of travelling traders, sits underneath the shelter of the upside down mountain's top. Large piles of trash thrown from the upper city land in a heap, forming a makeshift barrier surrounding the bottom of Mount Mercadia.

Map of Mercadia

A map of the plane of Mercadia taken from "Mercadian Masques" by Francis Lebaron.

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