Under the banner of expanding trade across multiple industries with the Barov Family, Rowan was actually heading out to develop multilateral trade with the nations of the Alliance.
The market in Kul Tiras was only so large. If he wanted to make serious money, he had to look further ahead.
Of course, part of the reason Rowan chose this particular time to leave Boralus was to let the heat die down.
With the Norwington Family now monopolizing the grain trade in Kul Tiras, every medium-sized and even major merchants' guild in the kingdom wanted to tear Rowan apart.
Cutting off someone's income was like murdering their parents.
That went double for merchants' guilds with capital at their command.
Rowan controlled the Iron Fleet, and his family's merchants' guild was not an isolated entity, either. The economy of Kul Tiras could not simply cut out the Norwington Family, especially now that the Norwington Merchants' Guild held so many factories and orders.
Honestly, with those connections and constraints in place, Rowan had nothing to fear.
Still, the fewer problems, the better. Some idiot might genuinely try to take Rowan down with them. If someone died, the major merchants' guilds could use it as an excuse to accuse him of inflaming tensions, making the fallout even worse.
He might as well head out to sea and let things cool down. Playing it safe was never a bad idea.
He had to know when to push and when to ease off. He could neither be too timid nor too brazen.
In the half month after the war ended, Morris Harbor launched two Iron Battleships in succession.
Rhonin returned to Dalaran and brought back three Level Four mages, ostensibly for specialized scientific research.
As for what specialized scientific research meant, the three mages gradually came