Editing Taziliwere-For Wine and Oil (section)

=='''Comments of Prince Bleys from the [[Diners of Amber]] article'''==

'''[[Tazilwere]]'''

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A pleasant pastoral land.  I'm not really sure why the card arrived in the deck.  I've met maybe a hundred Tazilwern outside this otherwise pleasant land over the centuries. Their embassy currently has a staff of five in a townhouse up in North Riding and I swear I think they trade off who is the ambassador yearly.  He is the one who has to show up at formal events and the same person never seems to be there from year to year.  

Of course when I visited after the card arrived I was made quite welcome.  I had been staying with a very pleasant family near where the trump dropped me for three days, mostly relaxing and pitching in on the farm work, before I asked the fateful question of my host if he had ever met the land's king?

The family looked around in confusion and started laughing a bit. I asked to be let in on the joke. I was sure the laughter meant they had never been to the city where their king lived.  To my shock the grandfatherly man who oversaw the family and farm I had been living with said, 'I thought you knew, Prince Bleys, I am King Trebin and this good woman is Queen Gazala."

No, sir, I did not know... a crown, a herald, a few guards, maybe mentioning it, might have clarified things, oh great sovereign.

Still, there is something to be said for the casual people here.  They have no military traditions and after checking I found that in a couple thousand years they have contributed less then a thousand troops to the military of Amber, almost never more then a few in a generation, which is rather bizarre for a golden circle kingdom.  

However their strength isn't warfare but produce. Olives and olive oils, grapes and wine, pepper and grains, vegetables and fruits, sheep, goats and fowl. These are shipped in great profusion to Amber since something about the people make them work hard happily producing vastly more then they could possibly ever use themselves.  That's probably why Osric found these people in the first place.  They eat extremely well as they trade among themselves but they ship long trains of goods to Amber and it turns out their bank accounts are bulging with treasure they have absolutely no use for.  Sometimes the places in Shadow are not easy to make sense of unless one understands the [[Question of Infinity]].

<span style=color:darkgreen> As of this date there are exactly 7 Tazilwern in the military.  I looked it up. One is General Falwies Ablegren-an expert in logistics and a sometime drinking partner of Dame Margot. <small> ''Wink, Wink''</small>. General Salis Drees-a engineer of some skill in road construction. Captain Feldel Bow-A ship's captain in the navy known for escort duty of merchant ships mostly. Two troopers that just signed on in the last decade.  And lastly, much to my astonishment, Lieutenant Trent Lakana- a member of the [[Elites]] and a frequent Dungeon guard who I shit you not, I thought was from Begma and who has been a dungeon guard for twenty-one hundred years.  I've gotten drunk with the guy, hell of a funny man and he never talks about his homeland.  He was friggin assigned to me as an Elite by Good King Random for 5 friggin' years early in my drunken theater days and I've seen him arse deep in showgirls and homemade gin.  But he never said more to me then he grew up on a farm and it has been his goal in life to never farm again.

<span style=color:darkgreen>An additional note to my comments above since after the initial printing of them I was reminded that Prince Haris Tazil is a member of the [[Elites]] and a court guard.  I had forgotten because when he came to Amber, invoking the Golden Circle, treaty I was mostly drunk.  There was some trouble at home and he came and collected a half dozen of the newly [[Recognized]] cousins and they all went out and handled things.  Afterwards he turned down the crown of [[Tazilwere]] in order to join the military of Amber.  He is a pleasant enough fellow, and as a known Golden Circle prince is often mistaken for a courtier in the Court of Amber rather then a castle guard.  Mild manners is an unusual camouflage for an Elite. They tend to stand out.