Located at the end of Amber Avenue in the Everbright District.
What most people did not know was that this major trading house, now renowned throughout Fernandez for its high-end, discreet, and reliable service, had originally begun hundreds of miles away in Kalin Port, a place crawling with sailors and smugglers.
Its founders were a pair of goblin brothers: Cross and Leander.
Of all the legends surrounding how they made their fortune, the most convincing went like this: the elder brother, Leander, peddled "Sahuagin priest necklaces" to hoodwink superstitious southern nobles; the younger brother, Cross, hired sailors at midnight to scour the tidal flats for shells, fish bones, and any scrap of junk that could be dressed up as a "deep-sea relic."
Leander had a silver tongue. He took the stage out front, dancing through every social circle and doubling their profits; Cross possessed a dragon's keen nose for the trail of Gold Shields, managing the books, warehouses, and logistical arrangements behind the scenes.
Mocked by other goblins as brothers who had "wasted their cleverness and wisdom on counting petty coins," the pair spent nearly ten years gaining a foothold in the motley chaos of Kalin Port, eventually taking over an old trading house with a handsome dome.
Unfortunately, good times did not last.
Around Arcane Calendar 963, the brothers suffered an irreconcilable split.
Leander's swollen heart was no longer content with legitimate commissions.
He found Cross's business strategy too cautious, and hated even more how this younger brother, forever harping on about risks, blocked his hand from reaching toward obscene profits.
For more complete control, he bribed the port Viscount who oversaw Kalin Port's shipping-lane taxes and docking permits, then planned a raid targeting "contraband smuggling."
Faced with the fully armed port guard, Cross had only two choices: be