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6/28/2025, 11:07:20 AM
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6/28/2025, 11:00:29 AM
About an eight-hour ride north of Rittersbach lies the sparsely populated Schafskopf Moor. A desolate landscape of rolling hills and grasslands, the moor is mostly used by passing shepards on their way from the stock markets. You yourself once hunted for hare in the vicinity, but in terms of actual habitation, it was lacking. Not that it was a dangerous place to be, far from it. But the hills and low valleys were devoid of any signs of human life, save for the occasional abandoned shepherd's hut.
Thus, it was the perfect place to settle these halflings; they can till the fields for you, and the hills can offer them the opportunity to build their traditional homes.
For in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Or at least that is how the old tales began.
''I can't thank you enough, kind sir. We hobbits will work this land, with our small but strong hands, and make it thrive,'' Leuther Flaschvloes graciously said.
''Now before you leave, there are things that must be settled,'' the thin, ready voice of the chancellor interrupted the handshake you had been shaking. He had brought paper and parcel.
While it was obvious that this new community wouldn't answer to anybody but you, there were still some things that would need to be ironed out, while the new halflings agreed to be subject to the court system, as well as your sovereignty over them. There was still the matter of how to tax them. While you wouldn't tax them right away to give them the coin needed to invest and improve their new lands, the matter would come someday.
Normally, tax could come in forms of military service, money, or in kind. But halflings aren't a typically martial people. Being a very leisurely sort of folk, they prefer paying extra tax in return for being exempted from any service.
>Impose the normal tax burden.
>Expemt them from military service in exchange for extra money.
>Expemt them from normal service, but make them the designated camp cooks.
Thus, it was the perfect place to settle these halflings; they can till the fields for you, and the hills can offer them the opportunity to build their traditional homes.
For in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Or at least that is how the old tales began.
''I can't thank you enough, kind sir. We hobbits will work this land, with our small but strong hands, and make it thrive,'' Leuther Flaschvloes graciously said.
''Now before you leave, there are things that must be settled,'' the thin, ready voice of the chancellor interrupted the handshake you had been shaking. He had brought paper and parcel.
While it was obvious that this new community wouldn't answer to anybody but you, there were still some things that would need to be ironed out, while the new halflings agreed to be subject to the court system, as well as your sovereignty over them. There was still the matter of how to tax them. While you wouldn't tax them right away to give them the coin needed to invest and improve their new lands, the matter would come someday.
Normally, tax could come in forms of military service, money, or in kind. But halflings aren't a typically martial people. Being a very leisurely sort of folk, they prefer paying extra tax in return for being exempted from any service.
>Impose the normal tax burden.
>Expemt them from military service in exchange for extra money.
>Expemt them from normal service, but make them the designated camp cooks.
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