| Category | Groups | ||||||
| Type | trade syndicate | ||||||
| Trade Area | Hells Womb, Izagunbar, Ma'Ohari | ||||||
| Headquarters | Paradomea City | ||||||
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| Symbol | nine interlocked gold circles | ||||||
| Founded | 14 War March 1058 | ||||||
| Disbanded | 11 Lunar 1290 |
The Merchant League was founded during the reign of the Kal-Oni (1016 - 1266). Its members were powerful merchant houses of Paradomea, then a small fishing port, and companies run by the Nermaneans of Bathor. It is often said that these Nermaneans, with sometimes ruthless business practices formulated in days of the Nermanis conglomerate "empire", were the ones driving the effort to bring the merchant houses together.
When the Kal-Oni Empire fell in 1266, the Merchant League took to governing Paradomea like a syndicate; with a charter very similar to the Coin Bylaws that once governed the Nermanis Syndicate.
In 1282, the Merchant League and the Council of Bile signed the LHWTA, establishing territorial boundaries, trade and spheres of control. Later in the same year, the Merchant League established a common affairs and government body, giving rise to the Paradomea Syndicate; with Paradomea its capital.
In 1290, consolidating their power and loyalty to the nation's syndicate interests, nine members of the Merchant League made a pact, each becoming a lich to serve the interests of the company first, the Paradomea Syndicate, and their own interests second. Disbanding the Merchant League, nullifying many debt instruments in the process, they replace it with a new organization called the Council of Nine.