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Treve and the Village of Minus
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
A warlike city, famed for its flocks of wild tarns, lying about 700 pasangs North of Ar, towards the Sardar.
The mountain stronghold can only be reached by tarnback. It has no agriculture, and each year, legions of tarnsmen emerge from the Voltai falling on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they need and burning the rest in order that a long retaliatory winter campaign can not be launched against them. Because of the protection provided by the rocky crags and high mountains, there has never been a serious threat to Treve’s Home Stone.
Treve is a city rich in plunder, as lofty, inaccessible, and impregnable as a tarn’s nest. It is known as the “Tarn of the Voltai” and is an arrogant, never conquered citadel. A stronghold of men whose way of life is banditry, whose women live on the spoils of a hundred cities. Chief among its defenses are the vast legions of tarnsmen, riding the wild tarns found in this land. The wild tarns of Treve are larger and much stronger than tarns bred in captivity, and are widely regarded as the best fighting tarns on Gor.
There are two main sources of revenue for Treve: training wild war tarns and the mercenary use of Treve’s vast forces to neighboring cities. For this reason, the city government continues to be ruled by an Ubar, as a state of war exists almost continuously. The neighboring cities pay vast sums of gold tarn disks to buy protection, but in reality, they pay to keep Treve from attacking them. Treve does not attack three cities because of their defenses…these cities being Ar, Ko-ro-ba, and Thentis.
The tarn flocks of Treve, and the skill of its Tarnsmen, are known as the best on Gor, comparable perhaps only to those of Thentis. It is on tarnback that the men of Treve plunder Cities and make away with the gold and the goods their lofty lifestyle requires, as well as the women of ennemies, brought back to Treve, hooded and bound across saddles, soon to meet the kiss of the iron.
The Tarn of the Voltai
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
The House Of Hoy Yuroki (HoY) Bank has moved to the Village of Minus
Monday, September 24th, 2012The House Of Hoy Yuroki (HoY) bank has moved, following the destruction of Landa. Rarius Yuroki, the Lady Wendie, scribe and accountant of the HoY, and three Kajira have now settled in the village of Minus.
Arriving in Venna
Yuroki has built a house on the outskirts of the village with apartments for the scribe and a Kennel for the kajira. In the village a small strong room has been built to hold the Bank and Mint of Yuroki. The main reserves of the bank are held elsewhere in the Voltai for security reasons.
At the docks of the village of Minus
The first transaction of the bank was to petition the Ubar Of Treve the famous city deep within the Voltai. The Hoy Bank has offered to mint new coins for the city, as coins of Treve are most commonly used in Minus. This service would be free to the city, reasons for this offer are confidential and known only to the Ubar and the bank. The Bank awaits the reply of the Ubar.
The first paperwork of Lady Wendie
The Hoy bank now recommends to convert one hundred new copper tarsks, for one common silver tarsk. This is common on Gor.
The Bank also waits for new commissions for the minting of coins, all coins minted by the bank carry a set weight and are easily exchanged with other cities on a one for one basis. Making trade so much easier. Older coins will be taken in exchange and then re minted with the new design.
Opening of the HoY Bank
All coins minted are to the customers own design this example is one of the Landa silver Tarsks before being melted down and re minted. It depicts the outline of the city with its emblem in the foreground.
View of the Voltai Mountains
Written by Wendie