docs: update HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Fulcrum

HBW/Eirus/Marcandria/Factions/Fulcrum.html

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 title: The Fulcrum
 description: 
 published: true
-date: 2023-02-10T20:18:28.051Z
+date: 2023-02-10T20:28:54.699Z
 tags: game-master, factions, fulcrum, the fulcrum, marcandrian faction
 editor: ckeditor
 dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:54:29.665Z
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 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 <h2>Locations</h2>
 <p>The Fulcrum's members are mostly concentrated along the Merchant's Bay — from Vessina to Revanna — as well in other (particularly coastal) major Marcandrian settlements. Said in a different manner: they are mostly concentrated in the areas with the most commerce. This doesn't mean they don't have a presence further inland or in smaller settlements. Those whose businesses are concentrated more inland tend to set up shop in the largest commercial center of said region, and is typically where all their goods converge before being sent off to larger further-away markets. It's also common for the Fulcrum's members to have endeavors located in smaller settlements, even if they themselves are not based there. These serve as one of the many sites they operate, with some smaller hamlets having it as their only industry. Goods from these will typically be transported back to where the member has set up shop.</p>
+<p>The businesses owned and operated by the Fulcrum's members tend to have a lavish and luxurious design — intended to impress partners and customers and to portray success and competency, very much in accordance to Marcandrian society's views on appearances. The level of luxury and intricacy depends on the member's wealth, though also on location. Extraction sites in out-of-the way rural areas tend not to require much to impress the local farmers and workers. A lumbering plant by a small hamlet in the middle of nowhere may thus settle with just having a nice office building for the overseer and administrators, with perhaps a few paintings and a few engravings. Impressing someone in one of the coastal trade-hubs requires a lot more extravagance, and may aspects such as include gold-encrusted furniture or expensive pieces of art — whatever they can add to elevate their perceived wealth and success.</p>
+<p>The Fulcrum's members are wealthy. They thus tend to live in lavish and luxurious estates, filled with expensive items, including art-pieces and collections of relics from distant pasts. The wealthier members often organize events, with some doing so almost constantly. This is both to increase their presence in the area, making them known, as well as to show off their success and wealth to their peers. These events include parties and masquerades, often private (need invitation to come), but also organizing and paying for public celebrations. This is rarely to be charitable, but rather to make their name well known, and to promote their public image.</p>
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-<ul>
-  <li>Guild-halls and their lavishness and aesthetics</li>
-  <li>Home estates of Fulcrum members</li>
-  <li>What their compounds look like (lumbering plant looks like a lumbering plant, this is mostly what the offices there look like. Typically depends on where they are. Compounds in large trade hubs and settlements are lavish to show off status. Thus in out-of-the-way hamlets tend to look fine, but not extravagently so. Not reason to have gold encrusted furniture just for a bunch of farmers. Some engravings are by far enough to impress them.)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<p>The Fulcrum's members often live in lavish and luxurious estates, filled with expensive items, including art-pieces and collections of relics from distant pasts. The wealthier members often organize events, with some doing so almost constantly. This is both to increase their presence in the area, making them known, as well as to show off their success and wealth to their peers. These events include parties and masquerades, often private (need invitation to come), but also organizing and paying for public celebrations. This is rarely to be charitable, but rather to make their name well known, and to promote their public image.</p>
-<p>Members typically position themselves in the largest trade-hub for their businesses. This means if&nbsp;</p>
-<p>Members who are based further inland have typically positioned themselves in one of the larger hubs</p>
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 <ul>
   <li>Use members locations a lot. Also has own massive guild-halls in Vessina and Alatri. Super elaborate.</li>