Auctions go back to the time when the three kingdoms on the continent were still one empire. Bloody territorial disputes were at their highest back then, but so was commerce that thrived between the twenty states that were located in different geographies and owned a variety of goods worthy of exchange.
Different states took turns holding a monthly auction for all twenty of them, and the event's popularity soared as it was protected by a special unit of the emperor's army, but that success was short-lived, for the shadow of the civil war loomed over the empire for three decades, subsiding only after splitting it into three kingdoms.
The middle states that descended from Emorian ethnicity formed the kingdom of Emoria. Adela's grandfather — the first coronated King — established commerce routes with the kingdom's eastern and western neighbors, becoming a vital medium between the two and earning money through customs.
