Editing The Wyzard Setting Essays (section)

=== 6. The Thracian Hegemony ===
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The Thracians began as a small group of seafaring nations, which eventually conglomerated and combined their efforts.  Through a massive conspiracy, they managed to help each other throw off the yokes of their inhuman masters and institute democracy.  They revived the pursuits of technology and complex financial instruments, and through a combination of laser-armed airships and disaster capitalism they were able to free most of humanity from the thrall of various Vampire Princes and Demon Cults. They rapidly became masters of the exchange of goods, and proceeded to dominate, incorporate, and subvert every economic entity they could come into contact with.  Their complex arrangements of ownership and finance allowed them to trick simpler peoples out of their wealth with impunity.  

They also reached incredible heights of technical prowess, and mastered the physical realm in a way that had not been seen in millenia.  While the Thracians disfavored the use of direct sorcery, they did recover and disseminate some of the more orderly Amaranthan works on the subject. They also made advances in the creation of arcane and technological devices. The most notable achievement of the Thracians, though, was that they created a standardized system of coinage which is still nearly universal.