A Handbook for Making a Fortune in Another World

First: People are the most valuable commodity.

Second: The bigger the storm, the more valuable the fish.

Third: Kill and burn your way to a fortune.

These three rules for getting rich apply to any world, in any era.

Years later, the great legendary explorer, pioneer of new sea routes, and practitioner of the idealist-materialist theory of fraud, Prince Lexi von Hobbes, Her Majesty the Empress’s most loyal husband, summed it up: “Cornering the market on rare goods is a gamble worth taking.”

“If you really want to make a fortune, you have to liberate and develop the productive forces. For example, have orcs replace humans in production, establish assembly-line production of powerful magical artifacts by mages, and use those artifacts to replace knights in warfare.”