Construct Black Canal

To construct a Great Westward Canal, to be called "The Black Canal" in honour of Geraint Black, from the river meade to Mournwold, accepting the offer of the Mournwold orcs to work alongside human Marchers on the waterways, improving the prosperity of Mournwold and Mitwold and integrating the Mournwold orcs further into Marcher society; and to request a disbursement of funds in part payment of the costs.

Proposed: Upwold, Seconded: Bastion

Overview

• Commissions some kind of sinecure in Temeschwar
• Passed at 0 Thrones

Date

• Autumn 384YE

Cost

• As detailed in the wind of fortune
• 60 wains of white granite
• 40 wains weirwood
• 200 Crowns
• Nine months tocomplete

Outcome

• Once complete, the benefits would primarily be felt in Mitwold and Mournwold. Every business in each territory would receive a share of 560 rings; every farm in Mitwold would receive a share of 220 rings (on top of that provided by the Breadbasket); and every mine in the Mournwold would share additional production equal to 50 ingots of metal.
• It would also link the two most prosperous settlements in the Marches - Sarcombe and Meade.
• The Mournwold thralls have thrown their support behind this project and between donations of money and food, and actual physical labour, they will contribute half the labour costs (100 crowns).
• The presence of the orcs working alongside the human Marchers on the riverways would also cause them to become more familiar to the people of the northern Marches.