Medivh couldn't hear the conversations among the upper echelons.
He was busy pursuing business partnerships, planning to haul away every native skeleton buried beneath the Western Afterglow Plains and the Eastern Afterglow Plains.
What others saw as useless was the raw material he used to make Time Skeletons.
Loran and the other city-state lords had coined a new term.
They called the skeletons underground "bone ore," turning something worthless into a profitable, high-quality mineral resource.
As the Wrynn Family's reputation spread, more and more lords would join the bone ore trade. When that happened, Medivh would only need to spend some money to buy skeletons from areas he couldn't reach.
It was a leap forward. To further his archaeological work, Medivh scattered money everywhere, attracting more noble knights to his Bone Ore Commercial Empire.
When nobles aligned with Loran hauled vast quantities of White Bone from planes where the Wrynn Family hadn't fought and sold it to Medivh, he knew his bone ore business was expanding.
As the bone ore trade grew, enemy corpses they had once despised became highly sought-after goods.
Transporting fresh corpses across planes on a large scale violated the Light Covenant, so they changed tactics, following the Wrynn Family's example by stockpiling corpses and making aged bones.
It didn't matter that they couldn't sell fresh corpses. They could bury them and wait for them to decay; a few years later, they could dig up the graves and sell the valuable bone ore.
Where there was demand, an industry sprang up. The easy money drew in a large number of noble lords.
"Have these people gone crazy?"
Corpses that had once been buried wherever they fell and left unattended were now guarded by patrols dispatched by the noble lords, thanks to the bone ore trade.
The Necromancers