These have an extremely vast market throughout the Felen Continent and are very popular.
And the gnome crafts, dwarf equipment, and magic equipment produced from Felen also sell well on the Kartu Continent. Coming and going, the prices can increase dozens of times; there's no more profitable business—provided one can ignore the thousands of kilometers of long journey and the risks involved.
This type of merchant polity is destined not to maintain a large, structured army; usually, they rely on mercenaries.
These mercenaries drive away those monster tribes, keeping their trade routes safe, which is barely sufficient.
But in times of war, especially in large-scale wars involving armies numbering in the tens of thousands, those mercenaries lacking good command and organization prove inadequate.
An army of ten thousand mercenaries struggles to withstand the frontal assault of a three-thousand-man regular legion.
