Everyone can be bought, even the prestigious families if the price was good enough.
And that's what the Bartender's Guild was ready to do.
"Such a price, are you capable of backing up your offer?" The family's matriarch asked, looking toward the tall young woman with a curious eye.
The seas still remained the most dangerous part of the world for them. There were few safe routes in existence and most of them were under the protection of certain powers, some from the island nations or even small warlords that had turned some island into their home. And to the ignorant, no path was actually safe unless they had access to the treaties.
This is barring the pirates as well as adventurers, who never cared about such details and lived life at the edge. However, they also had developed their own little passageways that were rarely used by the merchants or the Guardian ships.
