Your wish can be granted, as the Crescent City is a port town and the ships that sail the seas are often Captained by Elves, who can be bribed to take a Human trader to the Elven port of Perida, which is on the southern border of the Elven lands. He would be welcomed into the city as an envoy for trade, but not allowed to travel freely and never without an Elven escort. The land surrounding the Perida port would be tamer than the lands to the north, but no less dangerous to those unfamiliar with it.<br/><br/>He can even be sanctioned by the Duke (of Crescent City) to facilitate trade in a totally upfront way. Of course how illegal the trades he makes are up to you. There would be a lot of clandestine meetings with Elven nobles, who also wish a few of the rather exotic, to them, goods of Human manufacture. These can be as interesting as you care to make them. Everything from fruits not available to the Elves in any other manner, to liquor and chemicals not found readily anywhere. Like the Black Rose, which is a far western desert plant. Above board trading would be for mundane things like grain and cloth.<br/><br/>The Dwarven gel I want to clarify more readily so you know how I am thinking. The gel is made from a combination of fungus, and the secretions of a deep  cavern dwelling worm, that combined makes it safe for consumption. Each ingredient separately would kill. The Dwarves are the only ones who know how to make it and collect the raw materials. They make it in very controlled amounts, so they can keep the price high.<br/><br/>The way I see it, every region has its highly coveted trade items that it uses to trade with others. The mundane and the exotic. The High King likes to collect taxes on all of it, of course the ones in the Black Market avoid paying those outrageous taxes as much as they can.<br/><br/>In this world, pirates are often found amongst the Elves, but are usually found to be half Elf, and are pursued by the official Elven Navy as well as the Midlands Royal Navy currently in the port of Crescent City. They probably masquerade as traders, so they can prey on legitimate traders. The crew of all ships are a variety of races. Elven ships will use Human sailors if they cannot get enough Elves to man their ships, though they prefer an all Elven crew.<br/><br/>I see the Midlands Royal Navy much like the British Navy, in discipline and order. The Elves are more like the Dutch Navy. Less militaristic, and more open to trade, both legal and illegal. The Elven King allows them to self police, and would frown on the amount of illegal trade, if he was not getting a healthy cut of it. They pay tribute to him and he mostly leaves them alone, unless he starts getting complaints. Then he might caution them to be less blatant and often will sacrifice a mostly Half-Elven ship of pirates and blame them for the trouble. Just to keep the peace.<br/><br/>Just adding that the Human traders do not often go to the Elven lands as they are going to be seen as pirates more than not. They play their trade vessels more to the west and up the deep Thangris river to the grain belt. They are very leery of sailing into Elven waters as a result, and then only with Elven sailors amongst them to keep the Elven Navy from sinking them without a second thought. (They know the codes to communicate)<br/><br/>Also to tease CS, I fully expect a tryst between Hani and Doryn as well as a tryst between Pieter and Hani at some point, before they all get together. That is the fun part for me to explore. I am fully capable of giving the other one some npc to play with in the meantime, so no jealousy! I can post several times a day in multiple threads. I would have no problem keeping up with the two of you here! ;)<br/><br/>