Madven was happy with the arrangement: spend some money to acquire archaeological excavation rights and gain access to a large supply of spellcasting materials.
The negotiation representatives sent by the other city-states were summoned to a meeting by Number Four, the Bone Spirit Substitute. In the end, the Wrynn Family obtained the rights to excavate historical remains across the entire Western Afterglow Plains at a reasonable price.
The nobles still cared about appearances. They had governed the plains east of the Afterglow Mountains for years, and the land had never fallen into enemy hands.
Most of the remains buried in that region belonged to people with living descendants. They wouldn't dig up their subjects' ancestral graves for money—that would be like digging up the foundations of their own families.
Even if some nobles had no scruples and were willing to sell, Medivh wouldn't buy.
He knew what could and couldn't be bought. He never coveted the corpses of his own soldiers, either. He made a point of respecting boundaries and avoiding needless enmity.
The Plane Star Sea was vast and boundless, with more than enough places for him to excavate. There was no need to dig up his allies' ancestors' graves right in front of them.
Of course, there was still business to be had on the Eastern Afterglow Plains. The Gevot People weren't natives of the Blackstone Plane.
The natives of the Eastern Afterglow Plains were buried underground, and the human nobles felt no qualms about selling their bones.
Since they weren't digging up their ancestors' graves, and the nobles received substantial compensation for damage to farmland and homes, the families' subjects in the Eastern Afterglow Plains were happy to see their lords sell the remains underground.
The Skeleton Archaeological Team paid out its subsidies promptly: they dug during