The wares are sold cheap often not worth the investments. A template usually costs more than the tool I can fashion from it. Scythes, hatchets, pitchforks, hammers, pickaxes. I barely made a couple ten wolf-fangs a day.
There is a great injustice I am witnessing. Foreigners exploiting the mines of Barovia, exploiting the forests, hunting carelessly in the woods, wasting pelts for the woms even. Then they use all those resources against us. Arrows made from barovian ore used by the bandits, thugs and cuthroats. Swords and armor trained in barovian smithies turned against us.
The foreigners, each carry an attire and equipment worth a half-year if nu more wage of a honest man.
This is nu fair, nu just.
Just the other day I witnessed unu fey hauling large sacks of ore out of the Zeklos mine. He claimed it is for arrows, even refused to purchase mine. He claimed it is for his own use. I ask, why would unu man require more arrows that would even supply a small army?! Probably he was supplying his own thugs and mercenaries to prey upon the unwary travelers and traders.
The immigrants are like a big scar on the body of Barovia, festering. Unemployed most of them, loitering around aimlessly, watching the people passing by as a cuthroat picking his next target. And our garda are getting soft on them. Do they even pay taxes? Nu honest work can earn unu such wealth they carry on their own body.
I approached a foreign domna in the Broken Bells last night. Pretty sight, arrogant and vain. Said she is a trading representative of the Red Vardo. Even offered my an opportunity to conduct business. I am asking myself would I sleep well if I work for unu organization that supplies armaments for foreigners? An organization that can nu show unu honest barovian worker?
My heart is heavy, watching Vallaki wither under foreign influence. They may be small in numbers but unu immigrant with their foreign customs cause more trouble than a full invidian detachment.
If my trade going as planned I might be able to offer some work. Miners, cargo loaders. Nu will say Costa Vadim is nu a reasonable man, nu giving a chance to foreigners.
