The fiercely independent pixies of Brambleheart are not just playful tricksters; they are the premier information brokers and arms dealers of the continent.
The Star-Toy Cartel: While the Winter-Crown Jarls melt down starmetal to forge heavy, brutal weapons, the Grand Guild of Artisans in Brambleheart views starmetal as the ultimate artistic medium. They pay smugglers massive amounts of gold or rare fey-spores to bring them raw shards from the Star-Fall Crater. They hollow out the metal to create clockwork spy-flies, self-firing cross-bow mechanisms, and "glitch-bombs" that can short-circuit the steam engines of Orc Ironclads.
The Sovereign Debt: The pixies claim to care nothing for the "Big Folk's" wars, but they have a secret, massive financial stake in Stormwatch Bay. The Grand Guild of Artisans quietly funds the construction of the coastal ballista stations, trading their specialized engineering secrets for a percentage of all salvaged Orc iron clad metal. If Stormwatch Bay falls, the pixies lose their primary source of rare scrap metal, which is why they secretly push adventurers toward helping the southwest defense